Example sentences of "he just sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just sort of glanced at the photos and then carried on talking . |
| 2 | I listen real close to him , but he do n't really play the tune — he just sort of goes blah-blah-blah every now and then . |
| 3 | I ca n't reproduce the way he talks — you 'll have to listen to him for yourself — but he just sort of zooms off . |
| 4 | He could he was a brilliant machinist and er oh crikey I 've seen him turn out a a three throw er crankshaft within a couple of days er you know without any precise measuring and and and in fact he just sort of put his roll on on on a on the shaft he was turning and just sort of gave him an idea as to I mean his eye was almost as good as many a bloke 's measur measurement with a rule . |
| 5 | And he just — well , he just sort of sat down and wrote it straight off . ’ |
| 6 | I know it 's er oh I know , I think he works very hard indeed , he just sort of |
| 7 | He had a he , he when he did walked into town he was a cripple , he just sort of fling |
| 8 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |
| 9 | I said well in all fairness Paul , you ai n't actually bloody got , I said I do n't do it for the fun of it I said and I do n't like doing it but I see , he just sort of |
| 10 | and he just come in and he just sort of put them down like that , put the books next to them like that and never said nothing , so I never said nothing to them about them anyway |
| 11 | and he said you know , he said they have n't been turning up at that chapel for them , when they 've preaching but you did n't crack on they knew anything about that but he just sort of said said no you know remain non-committal . |
| 12 | You could just see him getting more and more het up but if he just sort of sat down and wrote things down what he 'd got to do and do , try and do them in a set order . |
| 13 | he sa I do n't know he said , said he went to the he kept on getting it , offered of speed and he just sort of took more and more and more and people were saying that he could n't walk straight and stuff which er |
| 14 | He does n't talk about birds that much he just sort of , now and again he 'll say shit and I 'll look round and I 'll see these like really cool legs going |
| 15 | stays on it on the game for about twenty minutes and he just sort of talks on and on |