Example sentences of "[pers pn] be just [art] sort of " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Oh , yes , you 're just the sort of bloke we 're looking for for the guards .
2 She is just the sort of girl to stimulate the artistic temperament .
3 But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming .
4 But for many people is n't it the case that the the church wedding is an an and the promises made the vows made before God and er before the the congregation , for many people they 're just a sort of rather erm oh dear how can I put it rather a flimsy frippery erm that they just feel it 's essential to have so that they can have the nice pictures and and look back on on a church wedding .
5 They 're just the sort of things your friends over there would like .
6 I remember myself , one time we had we had two grand fields and it were They were almost ripe when it came an awful time of rain , and they were just a sort of flattened .
7 They were just the sort of purchasers on whom peasants relied .
8 I just , it 's just a sort of an idea at this stage , I 'm not wanting to take up ogres of time on this , but
9 Only a minute or two earlier you were saying things like : ‘ It 's just a sort of a , a sort of a , a , a , a question of as it were sort of behaving sort of , well , for want of a better word , decently , sort of thing . ’
10 Rational and irrational , it 's just a sort of , the Greeks had a funny term for it , if you can express it as a fraction , think , seventy five over two hundred and ninety seven , then it 's a rational number .
11 No it 's just a sort of you know , you 've seen furniture you know that that 's sort of damp .
12 It 's just a sort of mental
13 But it 's just the sort of thing they 'd do . ’
14 It 's just the sort of thing Courtney would say .
15 Reluctant though he was to talk about it , he gave the main reason as ‘ it 's just the sort of job that would suit me really … helping people , that sort of thing ’ .
16 It 's just the sort of kit Charlie would have been supplying .
17 Cos she starts the middle school in September , it 's just the sort of running in
18 It is just the sort of Continental charter that was despised by Dicey .
19 The word ‘ Pish ’ is not in the libretto : hardly a matter for surprise — it is just the sort of embroidery that a singer might have improvised on stage .
20 The AS presumably indicates Andrew Stavanger , and the TMJ will be his secretary , or one of the typing staff And it reads sensibly enough — it is just the sort of letter that he might have been expected to write if he got back to his office late and were told that you had been trying to get in touch with him .
21 It was just the sort of set-up that attracted Dustin , who had been itching to have more power over his films for some time .
22 It was just the sort of match that cried out for some Cantona-like ambition .
23 It was just the sort of thing we had seen on Starsky and Hutch .
24 It was just the sort of nose-thumbing exercise toward the NZRFU that Haden would loved to have devised and put in action .
25 Th you know it was just the sort of it , it all changed after the First World War and completely changed after the Second World War .
26 It was just the sort of thing the boys liked , and when Hilary had fetched their suppers — a cold Scotch egg each — from the kitchen , they all sat watching it .
27 But it sounded more like Hilda alone — it was just the sort of thing to appeal to Hilda 's sense of humour .
28 It was just the sort of thing that would amuse a man like that .
  Next page