Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [adv] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I du n no what to do , so I just sort of stand there . |
| 2 | My head 's spinning , so I just sort of lean there a bit and have a rest . |
| 3 | And part of the reason of course the dialect is gone is that we unconsciously sort of translate what we 're going to say into good English so that we 're understood . |
| 4 | See this is what we , we know we want them , but the ones that we really sort of look up to and reward are the ones that show these other types of behaviour . |
| 5 | Yeah , at the beginning was when sort of got twenty minutes left to do it erm we were fine there and I think it was the beginning part was and then we started panicking then like sort of after that you said oh do you want five minutes or more and we all sort of looked at each other you know and we did n't feel that we had enough time erm so we just sort of really |
| 6 | ‘ Admittedly there was a sort of backlash from outside , and even from within the group , so we then sort of backtracked . |
| 7 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 8 | looked around and said well he said looked at me said er well cos he was just about to g throw a wobbly and say , well surely the sales department should be dealing with this , should be should be giving him the information and he he just turned round and gave the aforementioned quote and I just sort of went yes it is . |
| 9 | She agrees with everything I say , she 's never horrible to me , but when you 're around she 's really horrible to me and like , even though she 's agreed with something I 've said earlier , she just sort of goes yeah right Cassie ha ha ha it 's really funny and takes the piss out of it and you sort of go along with her and I just sort of have to stand there while you two stand there laughing at me and I do n't like it . |
| 10 | Well you laughed and you were sort of and I just sort of told her and said shut up , shut up and stop being so bitchy . |
| 11 | And I just sort of wonder how we could possibly address some of that . |
| 12 | My sister 's put it on sometimes , and I really sort of oh , |
| 13 | And I almost sort of |
| 14 | And you just sort of have it all hanging over you and |
| 15 | What would be easier would be a simple board with everybody 's name and you just sort of erm put it across to in or out as you are coming up . |
| 16 | All different angles for in there , and you just sort of draw it and work out what the other one is , calculate it first , alright , That 's , that 's A from B , I 'll move that A and B as well . |
| 17 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 18 | and and you just sort of resent one might resent going up there |
| 19 | Oh and you just sort of |
| 20 | and like there 's a puddle of spit and you just sort of push past them and the bloke goes do n't care and I hate businessmen |
| 21 | Housing benefit is very , very difficult to get erm and again it 's paid in arrears , and landlords wo n't wait for that , so you ca n't get accommodation erm and you just sort of go down and down with discouragement really . |
| 22 | And she just sort of brushed it off . |
| 23 | and she always sort of bitches on about everybody . |
| 24 | Okay if you just sort of like think of a vague title which sums up what the things are which you want to cover in the essay and if you get it to me by Monday then that that 'll be quite good . |
| 25 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 26 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 27 | So if you bring a questionnaire and erm er we 'll go through it and I 'll show you sort of how to define the variable list and and y'know kind of how to enter the date and stuff , show you a give you a copy of the data file that I 've got that actually works so if you just sort of follow the syntax it 'll yeah so erm so that 's okay . |
| 28 | I suppose the trouble is yeah if you do push , if you do go for that the other side cos you just sort of push them into the |
| 29 | Well when we came here of course we had certain furniture and we just sort of er , er and we , I do n't know what other people did , we just erm furnished a room at a time until we got |
| 30 | And all he 'd got ta do was just put like two different bins , sizes of turkeys , and they just pick them out and there 's this thing like a V shaped hook and they just sort of |