Example sentences of "sort of be " in BNC.
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| 1 | lots of mums will ask about their baby 's feet , do you think there 's anything wrong with this , and they 'll sort of be holding their feet sort of wiggling them around , doing this , that and the other |
| 2 | Er , we 're looking at , to whether the branch and the manager , sort of be take a more active role including the the branch sector . |
| 3 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 4 | Well I suppose probably people li like nursemaids and er and er what they used to call in those days mothers ' helps , who used to sort of be a general skivvy around the house and would look after the children , and , and , and they were the same , they had to be in I think at , at sort of ten o'clock at night . |
| 5 | I mean their stock play normally is er a quality ball from Thomson into big Walsh well you know with Walsh missing they they 've got ta sort of be a little bit more inventive with their free kicks . |
| 6 | And obviously if you playing cards close to your chest , you need something like this to sort of be able , you know , |
| 7 | Find some t , time in each day when you are idle , do n't structure every single part of the twenty four hours , some time when you 're going to sort of be , do nothing . |
| 8 | They , they may sort of be very submissive , B types , and therefore they can be stressed in a different way . |
| 9 | Because I think one of the most worrying things that for the soldiers at the front was will their family be looked after and will their land sort of be alright when they get back |
| 10 | What puzzles me is that er , erm much , much of these bright new people , all seem to dress in such a , a despicable fashion , do n't they , all sort of be , dressed and scruffy and er , and er whether they they 're so busy with |
| 11 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 12 | cos we done not a lot this morning like I just sort of be zombies , I 'm sure we could do play with |
| 13 | really well you know I always think sometimes you 'd like to be sort of be crazy would n't you ? |
| 14 | Oh yeah , I just did n't want you sort of be short |
| 15 | You know , you 'll have to sort of be on your best behaviour ! |
| 16 | Near Arken where they cross the border that 's about two hundred miles and then , you know , by the time they 've gone through er er , they 'll sort of be well down into erm sort of Stuttgart way I think that sort of area probably . |
| 17 | Now my concern is not really with trying to erm get outside people or people in universities to sort of be involved in evaluations necessarily , it 's with helping people within schools to acquire more skills in the area of evaluation , so that schools , whenever they feel it would be useful to them , have got enough professional expertise among their own members to be able to perhaps rather more the quality of their evaluation and to see that it gets put perhaps to rather more purpose . |
| 18 | And he used to sort of be embarrassed about it . |