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

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1 I 'm just sort of rushing through this a bit , and I 'm trying to show where the where most people get it wrong .
2 No but I was just sort of testing you out to see , you know , how you reacted .
3 I was just sort of helping .
4 Well the grey come through and I was just sort of I thought I ca n't wait all those years with dark hair .
5 No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and
6 It was late at night and I decided , I was just sort of talking I 'd say , I ca n't get rid of this headache , and I do n't know what I 'm gon na do , I do n't whether I should just not worry about it cos I 'm not that old , and I was really pouring my heart out to him , and he turns round and he says , yeah , you need a new clutch you really need a new clutch .
7 you 're most of the time you 're getting it right cos this is just making the right sort of guess and you 're seeing the sort of When it gets to the awkward ones y you 're just sort of Well maybe it 's that , maybe its something else .
8 Yeah I mean I 'm not , I 'm not saying you 're a bad influence on her now , I think she 's just sort of jumping in at the chance for someone to victimize personally .
9 and then when she got it she was just sort of oh I 'm buying a house
10 Yeah , she was just sort of coming down the stairs yeah it 's alright , you know , had a word with her
11 That 's really all we 're doing we 're just sort of counting how many would we have if we have twelve add twelve .
12 yeah yeah we were just , we 're just sort of moving a car length at a time were n't we ?
13 erm erm Brian calls us experts at the beginning of the programme erm everyone listening knows we ca n't all be experts of course on all these things , we 're just sort of amateurishly trying to be sensible on these questions .
14 Alright , I mean , we were just sort of thinking well sort of four o'clock was n't she , she was starting to come out to Che she came out with Cheeky with us last night , but of course , that 's all gon na go again in n it , if it 's gon na be five o'clock ?
15 They 're just sort of painted on — you know , like black dots .
16 They 're just sort of relics of a time when people experimented with shapes and tried all kinds of different things ; these days instrument makers seem to have settled on making everything the same .
17 But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers .
18 I mean if they 're just sort of four foot things I mean it 's not you know I think .
19 Well , I think it 's like everything else , I think that er , with , with Lawrence being off they 're just sort of meeting everything as a crisis and getting , getting
20 Well yes Philip 's a student but they 're just sort of paying , it 's just rented sort of thing but erm
21 they 're just sort of shooting
22 But it seems to me like it 's passing the buck a bit in the way they 're just sort of taking responsibility
23 I I du n no I I I ca n't work out cos all of Dan 's girlfriends yeah Amber , Sonia and Honey most people have all said I do n't think she 's right for Dan and you know I ca n't I ca n't work out whether they actually think that or they 're just sort of saying that because he does n't talk to them as much or something , I do n't know .
24 I mean th they , they might do n't necessarily see why it 's improving and what 's behind it , but their lot must improve if there 's industrialization and weapons and things to be made , that they they have jobs and presumably have more money than they had before when they were just sort of not doing very much .
25 They were just sort of as I said , they used this celluloid .
26 It ai n't sunny , it 's just sort of grey .
27 It 's just sort of looking at 'em a bit .
28 It 's just sort of there .
29 It 's just sort of a foregone conclusion .
30 as , I do n't know in what sense it was supposed to be taken but it 's just sort of outlining some objectives .
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