Example sentences of "sort of thing [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was that very soon indeed afterwards my father came with a very sad but kind face in to the room where I sat alone and told me he was sure I should not do that sort of thing again . |
| 2 | Naturally I did not do quite that sort of thing again . ’ |
| 3 | He wo n't be involved in that sort of thing again , in a hurry . ’ |
| 4 | I never want to face that sort of thing again . ’ |
| 5 | The biggest section follows ; this is a selection of the many questions received from readers — the more important , the most often asked , and therefore the sort of thing most likely to be worrying you — with ‘ reason why ’ explanations . |
| 6 | How you persuade people to buy this sort of thing rather than that sort of thing . ’ |
| 7 | We 're out to pass you really , but we we wo n't unless it 's worth it , but erm the emphasis is on trying to find something there to give a mark to sort of thing rather than the other way around . |
| 8 | In the best teams , this sort of thing rarely happens , but if it does , a collective effort is made to put it right . |
| 9 | But I 've seen pictures of Holiday in a beaded sheath just like that , taken well before the war , and publicity shots of some of those French singers or chanteuses coming down staircases in just the same sort of thing even earlier in the century . |
| 10 | Not sort of thing even if she did . |
| 11 | Oh the sort of thing where you where the faces all have wibbly bits on them . |
| 12 | But it it might not be the sort of thing where numbers need to be , I mean |
| 13 | They were on a make up system sort of thing where they had a wage but it was n't the wage that the the piece work squad would have . |
| 14 | And another instance of that was well this was not so long ago when we had a loan of a barge from just a mini landing craft sort of thing where the front of it folded down . |
| 15 | So it 's the sort of thing where if somebody said to me right |
| 16 | Meanwhile Mo smashes out the hole in the corner of the house sort of thing where they 're gon na go and they ai n't there . |
| 17 | and bedding that sort of thing mostly wallpaper , yeah |
| 18 | You hear so much about this sort of thing nowadays . |
| 19 | Nobody says that sort of thing nowadays . |
| 20 | And I think we 've got to do a lot more to put this sort of thing right . |
| 21 | I 'm far too busy to mess about with this sort of thing today . |
| 22 | you 're not fucking throwing the plane out of control or the elevator would rip off or something , I mean if you get the same sort of thing probably would only have to do that , break the surface a little bit . |
| 23 | I have to know that sort of thing otherwise I would n't know how hard to fire the retro-rockets to give you a gentle landing . |
| 24 | It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd asked the headmaster for permission and he replied : ‘ She 's going to end up doing that sort of thing anyway ’ , ’ says Falvey . |
| 26 | They 're not actually in a conversation but we always do that sort of thing anyway . |
| 27 | Not that anybody would interest themselves in that sort of thing anyway — it simply is n't important , ’ she added rather lamely . |
| 28 | But to be honest I should n't be eating that sort of thing anyway , so |
| 29 | ‘ Look , ’ he sighed , ‘ I gave that sort of thing up a while back . |
| 30 | ‘ This sort of thing just should not end up in court . |