Example sentences of "you [modal v] [adv] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may just sort of er form a picture in your mind just sit there and lip read sort of concentrate . |
| 2 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 3 | I mean if you were being really dangerous and you wanted to die soon you could just sort of get a piece of bare wire and |
| 4 | You could just sort of tuck it in here under her waistband . |
| 5 | There was four routes there now and we had as many as ten buses operating those four , so it meant they were left , you could n't sort of segregate them . |
| 6 | books , and you could n't sort of swop the |
| 7 | Yeah you could n't sort of get at any where near him to start with . |
| 8 | The thing is , you ca n't really , you could n't sort of see this jagged mess . |
| 9 | Do you have any recollections of any particular disputes and maybe an answer that you could possibly sort of , make a few comments on whether you felt the the procedures were worked out so finely that they in fact prevented disputes because they were so long and drawn out perhaps or er it took the fire out of disputes if you like ? |
| 10 | you could actually sort of talk about , right a full time centre is ten half day sessions , two full time centre equals twenty half day sessions |
| 11 | It 's the same thing every day ; you ca n't sort of say you 're not going to do it , because you 've got to do it — like preparing a meal : it 's got to be done because if you do n't do it , the children would n't eat … |
| 12 | you ca n't sort of |
| 13 | Most people were still using wooden ploughs er which , not only di is it much more difficult to cut the sod with a er wooden plough , but it also cuts only in to about half the depth of an iron plough so you ca n't sort of turn the soil over to anything like the same extent . |
| 14 | You ca n't sort of say — well , I know some people do — but I ca n't say ‘ I wo n't pay that bill because I 've got to buy some food . ’ |
| 15 | Well I mean you could do a bit of both , I do n't see why you ca n't sort of start out with some general stuff about whether |
| 16 | You know , and he 'd got you , you ca n't sort of say , do n't ever be in touch with me or do n't ever or do n't ever |
| 17 | Well no , you have to scarify it and then you have to you have to carry on the work , you ca n't sort of do it and then think , ooh I 'll leave it for a couple of months . |
| 18 | Cos people , I mean now I mean you ca n't sort of even think about that till mid January or later . |
| 19 | You ca n't sort of like you wan na put shelves up and do things to the house , that 's what keeps her going , wan na put the rent up it 's got a lot of disadvantages . |
| 20 | But you ca n't sort of turn round to Hannah and say Hannah , you 've got B O ! |
| 21 | Yeah , of course you ca n't sort of cuddle him like that cos he 's too heavy , I rock him you know for a , a couple of minutes , not that long , he 's taken his braces off as well still do , do n't ya ? |
| 22 | I felt a bit you know , er you ca n't sort of , do you see what I mean ? |
| 23 | Which is really quite right but then , I mean , you ca n't sort of just love needs to be sort of spread out a bit does n't it ? |
| 24 | You would n't sort of erm , if you think of Fay er , |
| 25 | Erm for instance , you go to one meeting and erm you would just sort of , mind you I think probably you may not agree , young people perhaps think this is the best way . |
| 26 | Oh yeah , but I mean you can soon sort of make it so that it 's er |
| 27 | So you can just sort of take them out and put them on your desk , all the bone erm all the pottery . |
| 28 | Oh look it 's one of these that 's nice because you can just sort of nothing can come in behind you and that sort of thing . |
| 29 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 30 | And you can still sort of ma make it elevated up this really nice and |