Example sentences of "er [pron] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I went dow back down the Road cos there was a traffic jam and er I sort of went down oh sorry mate went down a road like which I thought was a good short cut , and they 've got a lot of these roads and they 've put like pavements across the end of them with bollards , and I went back and then there was a traffic jam and I got stuck because they were unloading a lorry so I 've been er basically pissed about . |
| 2 | but I only went round Dor Dorman Longs because the man who 's in charge of the labourers who moved all the machinery about er I sort of went with him see I did n't |
| 3 | That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board ! |
| 4 | I felt bad because the bloke was with him and er she sort of glaring at him , and I said but Matt had |
| 5 | And er you sort of pull the shoe over the sole and er then hit , my father would sort of shape a piece of leather around the sole of the shoe and then er he would sort of tacks that went through , the hobbing iron which was iron of cours tacks that went through , the hobbing iron which was iron of course would bend them over inside your shoe , just like a normal cobbler repairs shoe . |
| 6 | But er we found a pair of jeans er and having made sure that the jeans were empty of anything , er we sort of shuffled himself into the jeans a he lay down and we pulled , I I pulled the jeans up . |
| 7 | They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug . |
| 8 | Erm and that how that but through land reform it meant that how that you had erm credit difficulties and that how that landlords who prev previously provided the credit were no longer there and so that meant that how that erm that exasperated problems of increasing productivity and also there was a severe shortage of farm implements and animals cos they were n't redistributed , there was only the surplus that was taken away from the rich peasants and landlords , it meant that how that the , the rich peasants erm you know , got back er they sort of were a self-perpetuating elite in that how the poor peasants just did n't have the means to improving their production . |
| 9 | Er it sort of goes in four ways I mean the fathers talk more directly than the mothers whether or not it 's a boy or a girl they 're talking to . |
| 10 | And er he sort of admitted that he lives absolutely on the fringe of the no go area . |
| 11 | What er what sort of wages were you getting for that ? |
| 12 | Er what sort |
| 13 | Er what sort of just ordinary ? |
| 14 | Well , how to deal with such guests , and er what sort of categories do they fall into . |
| 15 | Erm okay well in that case er what sort of time scale are we working to I mean how soon do you need somebody here ? |
| 16 | Er what sort of relationship did you have with with the men , did you er particularly thinking that you you were still for a long time after that , the the branch secretary of the union as well you know . |
| 17 | Well yes well I mean it 'll be , be more beneficial when I know what it 's go er what sort of plan you 're going to present to me . |
| 18 | Er what sort is it ? |
| 19 | Oh good and er what sort of things do you like ? |
| 20 | So , two scholarships , what sort of things , I mean er what sort of things will they be studying ? |
| 21 | Erm some of the a adverts in er our sort of parish magazines and and so on , er fifty sixty seventy years ago , some of the names , still there . |