Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] sort of [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we should just sort of say what is necessary to find out and everybody gets a few telephone numbers or telephone calls check out addresses find out about new ones , get in contact with the district council erm what is in the pipeline . |
| 2 | Erm , what I 'll also do , we 'll only sort of talk for about twenty five minutes , about the essay , and then we 'll look at sh writing short answers er , for the exam , |
| 3 | I 've already put in our comments in writing on this to Chris and I 'll just sort of draw some of them save me repeating them . |
| 4 | And they 've got ta try and walk backwards I 'll just sort of go whoop ! |
| 5 | Right , this is an extremely good slide , I did take this myself , erm of the actual dress of the eighteen forties , I 'll just sort of point out its components . |
| 6 | Could we just go on to twenty one and we might just sort of stop this part of the lesson there . |
| 7 | If I just knew where he was prepared to stand and then could just sort of do the things round about . |
| 8 | You could just sort of tuck it in here under her waistband . |
| 9 | I mean if you were being really dangerous and you wanted to die soon you could just sort of get a piece of bare wire and |
| 10 | and the other one was erm a mother of two and she said that even when she was younger she was always overweight and she could never sort of go out with anybody nice and she just settled for anybody sort of thing , I felt sorry for her husband , mind you saying this like , cos he looked a bit thick and er |
| 11 | you could actually sort of talk about , right a full time centre is ten half day sessions , two full time centre equals twenty half day sessions |
| 12 | So sometimes the sisters would , would really sort of get it in for a nurse and she 'd and they could make your life very unpleasant indeed . |
| 13 | Right you then get your baby , you 'll see the midwives doing this , you stabilize the baby pelvis , because otherwise it will just sort of go all over the place wo n't it , and this doll is , is fairly fixed , it 's not a very soft thing like a baby and you , with your hand you put your finger which is about the same length as the baby 's finger is n't it ? |
| 14 | he 's retired , but he 's , he 's been quite busy with this Festival , but I , I said to him , now what I 'll do is maybe come and you and him and Jane maybe kind of will just sort of have a quick confab sometime just talk about what he wants , and he will be kind of happy to do that with obviously we 'd have to find a drop of money to pay for the tapes , I mean that would n't be huge and expensive . |
| 15 | So the engine will just sort of push the table down . |
| 16 | Yes , erm Arthur as I have mentioned earlier was erm the fourth in command as it were and erm if I can just sort of go down the erm the pecking order , mm , Leslie was the Chief Education Officer . |
| 17 | Yes , so that I can just sort of say , you know , we did invite and , that might help |
| 18 | Erm if we can just sort of work out in our own minds what , I , I do n't want addresses or anything like that , so do n't say oh I 'll break into number six , or anything like that but just anywhere in the area of Farnsfield imagine houses yourself , is to what sort of type of house we break into . |
| 19 | Yeah okay so we can just sort of scrub that out or something . |
| 20 | So you can just sort of take them out and put them on your desk , all the bone erm all the pottery . |
| 21 | Oh yeah , but I mean you can soon sort of make it so that it 's er |
| 22 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 23 | Treat yourself Angie , cos you can always sort of catch up like that . |
| 24 | so , you , if you , we can even sort of go through your figures and hopefully make the price that we , you know , we show better or |