Example sentences of "we [was/were] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we were sort of , begin to look at |
| 2 | You can take X-ray pictures of these crystalline atoms , like salt and the all because , they all fit into a nice little pattern , you know when we were sort of playing about with them as though they 've go t magnets on ? |
| 3 | There we were sort of trying to find out how many men . |
| 4 | Right sort of you could , I mean you could do the rounding up function if you like , which is what we were sort of point five or above it goes to the next int integer . |
| 5 | Well it was the same no distinction at all in that sense , but er you know we were sort of they had more serious things to talk about than I wan er you know I knew the cook , er couple of o other apprentices from the carpenters shop we used to go into the main th there was no-one to keep an eye on us in the in the mess-room you see , no-one to tell us . |
| 6 | that was what we were sort of we gathered in |
| 7 | Well , I did n't mind it was quite interesting , for one thing erm we were sort of off the beaten track here and although we 're in the town you might say , we 're out of it , we 're in the country are n't we ? |
| 8 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |
| 9 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 10 | No , er , we were sort of saying to Jayne everything was so pricey in that museum |
| 11 | We were sort of waiting for the sunset thing . |
| 12 | So we were sort of wondering , you know , where |
| 13 | I was saying to Jean this morning , cos it 's funny enough we went out to Dartington yesterday and we were sort of looking at the restaurant there at Cranks , and I said to her you know about this bowl of soup and then the erm |