Example sentences of "then [pron] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I sort of hold her hands tight while she rocks back and forward on the bed . |
| 2 | Well I did n't mind till I got a bit older , then I sort of started to kick , and er as I got older , that 's another story . |
| 3 | Five , yeah and then I sort of could extend it |
| 4 | What I do , that 's North , and then I sort of point round , I know it 's rude to point , measure that angle , forty five degrees , okay . |
| 5 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 6 | erm but then I sort of thought , no , well let's expand this one . |
| 7 | He uses the music to suck you in , then you sort of pull back in horror at what you 've gone along with . ’ |
| 8 | Fifty pounds plus VAT plus travelling and then you sort of tick in er various boxes if you 're a vegan or er |
| 9 | Erm , but we are n't going to the sort of , end of degree , that er , I say this , and then you sort of enter stage left and say this , and I respond like this , and then erm , something else happens , and then somebody comes crashing in through the door . |
| 10 | Hypertension , when you are , you know somebody that gets very sort of strung out by things , and you , then you sort of , you . |
| 11 | Erm how do people sort of beco when you become a member of a group , usually in some way the group changes you as you go through different stages of it , your values may change as a result of interacting with people in the group and th this process of erm somebody 's come up with how it is that you start off in a group , how it is that you become an active member of a group , how it is you may even become involved in the maintenance of the group and the leadership of it and then you sort of die away and that 's the y'know retire from the group . |
| 12 | and gradually you can go through it again and sort of fit the references in and , you know , so gradually , and then , then you find it 's too big and then you sort of go through it again and try and knock some stuff out so |
| 13 | Oh yeah , what oh yes , oh without a doubt Joan , er you can do it , you could have the name and you could have who talked to them and , and then I can tell 'em that what , I 've done this you see and that 'd be the end of it it does suggest that you do n't tell them before you tell them after and then you sort of give them the opp the opportunity of me knocking , not recording it you see , wiping it off the tape , because it stunts the conversation . |
| 14 | got talking about Sun readers , there was this girl and she , she was stood on this podium and she , she 's talking to The Express and The Guardian and going like that and their taking photographs of her and then you sort of pan round , the camera pans round and you 've got The Star and the Sun going like that fucking its really funny , The Sun and The Star in it |
| 15 | ‘ We were both dancing and then she sort of fell over and went into a fit . |
| 16 | Because erm in her her differences in her erm behaviour towards Hastings towards Tony , like she 's she chases him off the stage one point Tony and then she sort of turn round and be all charming sort of . |
| 17 | I helped her put her bags into the taxi and then we sort of kissed goodbye . |
| 18 | In sat the residents down and then we sort of like hovered . |
| 19 | Cos then we sort of , turn out , get a finger out and get a move on ! |
| 20 | Oh yes , they course the there was then er er relatives were then they sort of knew there were some who knew someone or cousin of whatever . |
| 21 | Then it went then it sort of since then the people it 's gone |
| 22 | Then it sort of … gargled away … and I kept on running . ’ |
| 23 | My staff were faced with untidy heaps of apparatus apparatus in equipment rooms , and received little or no help from the student representatives So and then it sort of flabbers on a bit saying they 're |
| 24 | And then it sort of you , you lost your track slightly with the referral side |
| 25 | Then he sort of pirouetted , still … er … holding himself , and then he fell over and rolled down the stairs . |
| 26 | Then he sort of went like this , pulled out a big gun , pointed it at us says , Give us the keys , again . |
| 27 | so he sits there erm , and you know you involve in our conversation , but he sits there talking to her and then he sort of feels out of it and then he storms off |
| 28 | And he rolls over and then he sort of put his legs up . |
| 29 | One grey-haired captain , a rough old chap , sat and sat not saying a word , mute as a mackerel , then suddenly got up in the middle of the room ad , you know , said aloud as if speaking to himself , ‘ If there 's no God then what sort of a Captain am I after that ? ’ , ad seized his cap and threw up his arms and went out . |
| 30 | And then what sort of function ? |