Example sentences of "of [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We , we were you know sort of asked , is there anything I can do to get rid of the baby ? |
| 2 | at the end of June so that 's when that was taken , you ought to of asked him when you saw him today |
| 3 | you ought to of asked him when he sold it to ai n't ya ? |
| 4 | I never , you know , sort of asked anything after that , I just see what he tells me sort of thing . |
| 5 | Then I realised what I was saying , and it sort of realised that it was n't really a a complimentary thing to say to her . |
| 6 | And they come in , I mean he skids in the hall at night I mean it 's my fault I threw the rubber ring towards the kitchen down the hall he sort of skidded before he got there and there was a , and he must of had mud er , you know like like he had |
| 7 | It sort of doubled up , or summat like that , so she crossed them all out and changed them . |
| 8 | Erm some women tend to have more pitch variation and they 're more emotional so they 're more likely to use encouraging tones er which can sometimes be seen to be slightly patronizing , whereas boys think it 's soppy to be emotional or expressive way , so that if you 're in school and you 're asking people to read out in class , erm a girl would be more likely to be more expressive , whereas a boy would be a little bit more monotonous , and just sort of read it out and not put any emotion into it . |
| 9 | You sort of read a couple of bits then doze off and then ! |
| 10 | What I think would be nice is if , if one or two people from each group came and laid claim to some of these things and we went through them and we sort of read them out loud because it 's a bit hard to read there , and we 'll see what Bob 's view is on this and . |
| 11 | ‘ But somehow that mistake sort of propelled me into an approach which is still very significant to what I do . |
| 12 | I feel kind of cheated myself , and I stare at all the shops and people knowing this time I really wo n't be back . |
| 13 | He sort of agreed with me that it was a waste of an opportunity . |
| 14 | after that we sort of passed it on to the one next you know what to expect , but if it was down to my mother she 'd never tell you . |
| 15 | My girlfriend is very cool and she is n't easily impressed , but when she met Sean , he looked into her eyes and said ; ‘ nice to meet you ’ , and she kind of fainted without falling over ! |
| 16 | The room service kind of crept in and since we did n't have any cash , we charged meals . |
| 17 | The stardom sort of crept up on Nicholson over a period of weeks . |
| 18 | Isa Shaheen of the conservative Moslem Brotherhood said that " his Highness sort of met us half-way by pinpointing the issue which we will try to solve by discussion " . |
| 19 | and they sort of met and how they did n't hit I do n't know but at the moment it 's , well get the car back today it 's er been away being done , cos somebody smashed into him |
| 20 | I think actually Trev that was very very timely , cos that really sort of encapsulated what we said this morning , so thank you very much for coming back . |
| 21 | Once a girl sort of posted herself to me . |
| 22 | ‘ And that sort of unlocked it . |
| 23 | I kind of ruled the roost a bit , but we got on well . |
| 24 | That 's really sort of splurched now . |
| 25 | Er you see you sort of lived in one li small environment where , er with us it was er a certain room . |
| 26 | What was it er when your mother erm sort of lived here , di di did she learn to speak your Welsh ? |
| 27 | And I sort of made him talk . |
| 28 | the road sort of made you have a van |
| 29 | Mm , mm , you see , cos even if we sort of made it for like the middle of next week , er , no not next week , the week after |
| 30 | Well what , what sort of made me say that was because er across the crevy well at least all these travel ones are |