Example sentences of "[art] sort of thing the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Briefly , she wondered if this were n't the sort of thing the Doctor was after , but decided to continue searching . |
| 3 | This was the sort of thing the men must cope with , thought Harold , true to his Victorian principles . |
| 4 | It 's not the sort of thing the son of an important man should say . ’ |
| 5 | It 's the sort of thing the KGB are very good at . |
| 6 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 7 | ‘ Just the sort of thing the Richardsons would do . ’ |