Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [adv] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 2 | looked around and said well he said looked at me said er well cos he was just about to g throw a wobbly and say , well surely the sales department should be dealing with this , should be should be giving him the information and he he just turned round and gave the aforementioned quote and I just sort of went yes it is . |
| 3 | She agrees with everything I say , she 's never horrible to me , but when you 're around she 's really horrible to me and like , even though she 's agreed with something I 've said earlier , she just sort of goes yeah right Cassie ha ha ha it 's really funny and takes the piss out of it and you sort of go along with her and I just sort of have to stand there while you two stand there laughing at me and I do n't like it . |
| 4 | Well you laughed and you were sort of and I just sort of told her and said shut up , shut up and stop being so bitchy . |
| 5 | And I just sort of wonder how we could possibly address some of that . |
| 6 | My sister 's put it on sometimes , and I really sort of oh , |
| 7 | And I almost sort of |
| 8 | And you just sort of have it all hanging over you and |
| 9 | What would be easier would be a simple board with everybody 's name and you just sort of erm put it across to in or out as you are coming up . |
| 10 | All different angles for in there , and you just sort of draw it and work out what the other one is , calculate it first , alright , That 's , that 's A from B , I 'll move that A and B as well . |
| 11 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 12 | and and you just sort of resent one might resent going up there |
| 13 | Oh and you just sort of |
| 14 | and like there 's a puddle of spit and you just sort of push past them and the bloke goes do n't care and I hate businessmen |
| 15 | Housing benefit is very , very difficult to get erm and again it 's paid in arrears , and landlords wo n't wait for that , so you ca n't get accommodation erm and you just sort of go down and down with discouragement really . |
| 16 | And she just sort of brushed it off . |
| 17 | and she always sort of bitches on about everybody . |
| 18 | Well when we came here of course we had certain furniture and we just sort of er , er and we , I do n't know what other people did , we just erm furnished a room at a time until we got |
| 19 | And all he 'd got ta do was just put like two different bins , sizes of turkeys , and they just pick them out and there 's this thing like a V shaped hook and they just sort of |
| 20 | they watch you writing up , they watch you doing all the other discussions and stuff and they just sort of go with you . |
| 21 | cos in New York they sort of like they have a chat and the wo they 've got some nice looking bird , right , and some sort of normal bloke off the street and they just sort of talk about New York and show lots of pictures of it |
| 22 | Then there 's the lending it out problem , where presumably people say ‘ can I borrow this stuff ’ and they just sort of walk off with it and you do n't know whether you 've got it all back , and you find a few weeks later there 's a lead missing . |
| 23 | In Walsall Wood erm as I say , we used to have er two big bags full on a Fri Friday and then in the week we could go up but you 've got your bread but , you know , yo the men would be , I can just picture them with their little , all this pretty coloured paper would all be in little piles and when there were no customers , they would be wrapping the rice , the raisins , the currants , all in these pretty papers you see and they knew , I mean you 'd ask them for currants and they never sort of knew , I did n't quite understand how they could pick by , it 'd be by the paper you see . |
| 24 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 25 | and he just come in and he just sort of put them down like that , put the books next to them like that and never said nothing , so I never said nothing to them about them anyway |
| 26 | he sa I do n't know he said , said he went to the he kept on getting it , offered of speed and he just sort of took more and more and more and people were saying that he could n't walk straight and stuff which er |
| 27 | stays on it on the game for about twenty minutes and he just sort of talks on and on |
| 28 | And er he comes home at half past three and he then sort of told us what we 'd got to do in it . |
| 29 | It took a few days for the butis to decide to employ me , since I clearly was not about to join the Community , but I kept coming back and mucking in and it just sort of happened . |
| 30 | I agree now , yes , it was just all in the same paragraph , and it just sort of a bit odd . |