Example sentences of "can sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , when a stag mates with a hind , he first scrapes a hole in the ground Then he gets her head and shoulders down the hole , leaving her rear end sticking up in the air so he can sort of get at her easier like . ’ |
| 2 | if anybody can sort of if you write in English , maybe could send it to you , could get it translated at the Stortford , oh that might be very useful , erm , I mean , I 'll certainly do some letters and if anybody else wants to , if they let me know I 'll let them have the addresses for them , erm , there are fax as well and that suppose to be a quicker way than writing a letter actually than send through a fax , right , erm , if anybody can then we could send them to you and , and ask you to send it on , and we would sort of postage , would be covered would it Margaret ? |
| 3 | ‘ You can sort of tell . ’ |
| 4 | so we can sort of put those into our |
| 5 | And I mean over the years you can sort of pick a sample out and say ‘ It 's pretty close , this one ’ ; or , y'know , ‘ Do something about it ’ , there and then , if you think there is anything that can be done . |
| 6 | When you when you 're reading this through , you 're having a quick skim through , you can can you can cross out , you can sort of totally obliterate |
| 7 | But within that probation period you can sort of like get dismissed for any time quite easily . |
| 8 | They 're called a pacifier and you can sort of like use them to strike and to defend yourself with them yeah ? |
| 9 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |
| 10 | I mean that can have that can sort of |
| 11 | If you think we 're doing too much you can sort of say , Ooh hang on . |
| 12 | Now Jean was pleased because I do sequence dancing which I learnt with my husband , and so now this coming September when we start back again , once a month I 'm going to teach some sequence dancing in the hope that some young ones would , will hear of it and , and join because then once you can sort of get them involved with one thing you may sort of get good numbers . |
| 13 | And that way when you analyze the results you can sort of say , Well we found that say Birmingham was very disliked erm but you can say that was n't I mean if everybody in the whole sample |
| 14 | But I mean it 's up to you if results are very simple you can sort of say , Oh well sixty percent went this way and forty |
| 15 | So whether it means add or take away or subtract or negative we can sort of forget about it and just look at the signs so if get if we get take away plus three , that will be the same as take away plus three , yeah ? |
| 16 | Er oh keep these numbers small so you can sort of play about on the number line more easily , and ten minus , minus ten take away minus four . |
| 17 | So you , you can sort of think about it . |
| 18 | Erm ah , now that erm I think I was reasonably happy most of the time , erm I know if I can sort of look at the other side of the coin erm , I became a bit apprehensive as the war went on and er , obviously it was n't going to last much longer . |
| 19 | I mean I suppose there is in all social work in a sense , that if you go in to look at a family and , and you 're trying to assess you know whether the children should be taken into care , well you 're exercising a a sort of statutory erm er sort of responsibility , and as far as the clients are concerned , er if you , like that can sort of get in the way of er er a more human sort of relationship if you see what I mean , because |
| 20 | A bit of security of employment so they can sort of sort out for an holiday . |
| 21 | it can sort of engender orgies . |
| 22 | And I think if if people like Thomson can sort of give him that sort of service he 's going to make life awfully difficult for the Forest de central defence . |
| 23 | the exams and if I can sort of say , you do n't need to worry about |
| 24 | Now what they 're saying is that , what they said is activist action learn best when they get the opportunity to experience new sort of problems , situations , opportunities when they 're doing something quite new when they 're sort of involved in very much you know here and now activities when they 're sort of like business games , exercises , role plays , team tasks that they can sort of get you know really get involved with themselves then there 's lots of action and they 're quite short and sharp , so can move on to something else . |
| 25 | If you can sort of say well that has been proven , this is the research , this is the system , this is the model , theorists actually enjoy that because they think well this is n't just somebody 's gut reaction , this is something that somebody spends a long time actually thinking about it considering . |
| 26 | Fourteen two , erm the great problem is it 's easier to get if an afternoon meeting can finish at a reasonable time , then I can probably but erm I think if you , if you 're looking at the clock when home in the evening for a number of reasons it might be then I would this and unless we can sort of put a restricted time on the agenda which is impossible , I can imagine coming down here at two o'clock for the meeting . |
| 27 | mm , well it depends on the touring pattern as well because I mean something like Communicado can sort of kind of do a week here , or a fortnight somewhere |
| 28 | So can sort of we point the discussion in in that direction but before we do Miss Whittaker has a corollary to push with that point . |
| 29 | government , it it 's various years so I hate to sort of say , ah well council taxes cuts will be a bit lower er with the conservatives going to be an argument which is but halfway to equal counties so I think we can sort of discount really what the conservatives say but I will say the liberal democrats are to be . |
| 30 | I 've got on the tape here a song which is by Manny Fryer he used to sing in Steel Ice Band er now I know that that 's sort of very old hat , I 'm sorry , but I sort of live in the past and er this er I I believe also that these days so that er you know I can sort of justify that but this is a song that er she has sung which er reminds us that each of us has the potential to commit the crime I 'll try not to play it fast forward , let's see how we go . |