Example sentences of "we [adv] sort " in BNC.

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1 She says , Oh well we just sort of all move along .
2 W we did exactly er We , we , we just sort of noted it on there
3 Well we did n't do a lot of that er except gi giving advice wh when we just sort of er going round as a midwife .
4 No , we just sort of hung about together .
5 Well , we , we just sort of muddle along from day to day week to week , nobody tells us anything , we just have a guess and usually the guesses are wrong .
6 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
7 Yeah although in fact the roadworks were , were not slowing us down it was , it was the approach to the M three junction was , was really very bad but the erm the road the , the roadworks at Heathrow , we just sort of breezed through that .
8 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
9 oh and we were jus well we just sort of cha , I was just talking about the weather , she was saying how cold it was .
10 We just sort of stuck cold flannels all over them
11 Well we just sort of sat down and said anything to eat !
12 So we just sort of say essay , D T to show what I mean .
13 Can we you , you 've said some quite important things i in this , can we just sort of clarify this before going on .
14 So can we just sort of forget it 's there .
15 You know we just sort of like got our own stuff .
16 Right erm as a rule of thumb we , we generally sort of look and say well erm if yo if your income 's thirty thousand a year , yeah , you should be looking to , to provide sort of ten , fifteen times that er as a , as a guide to the amount of life cover you need .
17 So , we soon sort of made our way out through there and this old boy , he was so funny !
18 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 .
19 gives you a bit more time to decide exactly what you want to talk about cos if if it has go to be in week three or week four , then we really sort of like decide now what you 're going to write about so that n Cos next week is gon na be our last meeting on this topic , so you really want to sort of give a bit of a presentation on what you 're going to say .
20 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 .
21 ‘ Admittedly there was a sort of backlash from outside , and even from within the group , so we then sort of backtracked .
22 It , we never sort of slackened off at all and in those days there was so much brass to be cleaned and scrubbing to be done and cleaning .
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