Example sentences of "who sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even my cousin who sort of runs the War Office says there 's not much he can do . |
| 2 | would the , did the staff seem interested , a got a nil positive response from them , assistant manager or the other guy who sort of looked at me as if I |
| 3 | Howard explains , hesitatingly , about how he is trying to establish contact , through parties like this , with as wide a cross-section as possible of people who sort of share his views about the world , and to act as a sort of focus of dissent and as a sort of clearing-house for sort of new ideas . |
| 4 | okay , explain it to me in terms of , try and ex say if you were explaining it to someone who sort of was n't very technical . |
| 5 | I think you have to sort of , lay your ground rules , I mean state your case , quite early on and it , I mean , you know , if , if you 're not good first thing in the morning , you know , you could tell someone you need three cups of coffee before you 're safe to approach or if erm , there 's a lazy slob who sort of lies on the sofa all day , you could throw the dishcloth at him , or erm , and also , I mean if it , if there are sort of badly behaved pets and , and children , erm , you know , just , just do n't invite them , and if that means your guest list is , is somewhat shorter then all to the good . |
| 6 | Yes , I think we may be using the , because the opposing team always bring a lot of people and we never have any supporters , somehow , so erm , er we 're very pleased if people who sort of spread that about a bit . |
| 7 | Pepe has some bouncers who sort of protect Miguel from his fans . ’ |
| 8 | it 's just the people who , who sort of gave in to them were , were sort of weaker than other people |
| 9 | At the moment you do I take it you 're recording people who sort of ring up say I 'm interested you send out a package to them you record them |
| 10 | well one of the girls said to me who sort of tagged on to us , she was on her own , er she said er what was the highlight of the holiday and she said that trip down the Seine |
| 11 | Well they 've only got one , one girl who sort of does clerical and stuff and reception , they have n't got a anybody who knows how to . |
| 12 | I 've never really been , like , single single cos I 'm always sort of like , not actually going out with somebody but I 'm always , I 've always got someone who sort of fancies me or I 'm flirting with . |
| 13 | And I think it sort of paid off in making people feel in the town during the year that they had a mayor , that the ceremonial actually meant something and related to them , and certainly I still find tremendous numbers of people who sort of come along and invite you to things — people who before would have probably said ‘ Oh it 's a waste of money ’ , and I think we did quite a lot to change that attitude . |
| 14 | And certainly I still find tremendous numbers of people who sort of come along and invite you to things , people who before would have probably said , ‘ Oh , it 's a waste of money , ’ and I think we did quite a lot to , to change that attitude . |
| 15 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |