Example sentences of "to sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , if you were to sort of pop off , I 'd go on being a countess , would n't I ? |
| 2 | It looks so sad there , all cold and lonely , that I hold my hand out to sort of stroke it , but it flies off . |
| 3 | I wo n't keep her long , miss , just to sort of … to reassure her , like , that I 'm back . |
| 4 | Clark and White , whose expedition was kicked out of the country last autumn , say that there is no justification to these claims , Johanson goes further and blames ‘ a campaign by three or four people who would like to sort of smear our reputation , to do whatever they can ’ . |
| 5 | As far as he was concerned , it was the Russians ' mistake and up to them to sort it out . |
| 6 | But often the- when they were in small houses where they had to do everything , erm they tended to find that they were they were expected to sort of skivvy much more . |
| 7 | Well it was understood that Bisses got most of theirs from restaurants , and all restaurants I think had to sort of hand over all their waste for the war or something . |
| 8 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |
| 9 | Cycle parking is actually I wish they 'd actually pay a bit more places to actually put your bike and you did n't have to sort of tie it up to some lamppost or something |
| 10 | And I 'm intending to , to hold a few more assemblies as well to sort of get interest going again because it 's been a while since we did an assembly on it , so if we do another one , that usually gets it going again does n't it ? |
| 11 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |
| 12 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 13 | When I came off , I felt I needed to sort of keep in touch , sort of speaking to people that know what 's going on and know what 's going on in ex-users ' heads , y'know . |
| 14 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 15 | to sort of see some way around it , but I mean it 's a , it 's a problem of the scheduling both by the theatres |
| 16 | and I 'm quite keen to sort of have that |
| 17 | Yeah , yeah , so you know we need to sort of pull that together |
| 18 | I mean we 'll , we 'll obviously have to sort of keep a , keep an eye on all this all the way through |
| 19 | Yeah I think though , I mean it comes back to sort of wanting to know , we 're just talking again about what 's on |
| 20 | erm to , to sort of engage a response . |
| 21 | Now , we while you 're here you know wha just to sort of ten minutes erm I mean Ian 's produced these sheets |
| 22 | All I 'm trying to do at the moment is to sort of get |
| 23 | There is n't a list so that you will need to sort of think it through . |
| 24 | Yeah , but you had to sort of force him to go and take some |
| 25 | Kerry would you like to sort of sit over there or something ? |
| 26 | Before we do the role plays I 'd like to discuss them to sort of , so we know exactly what we 're gon na do . |
| 27 | Now at this point I want to sort of take a break from looking at the development of the Communist Party to looking briefly at the peasantry because although the peasantry have been in the background for much of the time , we have n't actually looked in any detail , so far , at the condition of the peasantry in China . |
| 28 | I do n't want to sort of wade in in response to that , I want other people to er |
| 29 | Erm , where possibly like the , the anorexic , well I do n't know cos I 'm not speaking from an anorexic point of view , but I think the , the point we 're saying , emotions are there but they 're dealt with in a , a different way , you know they perhaps starve themselves erm , to sort of like , erm you know ge , get across these emotions , to deal with these emotions . |
| 30 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |