Example sentences of "[pron] can sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |
| 2 | Erm ah , now that erm I think I was reasonably happy most of the time , erm I know if I can sort of look at the other side of the coin erm , I became a bit apprehensive as the war went on and er , obviously it was n't going to last much longer . |
| 3 | the exams and if I can sort of say , you do n't need to worry about |
| 4 | I 've got on the tape here a song which is by Manny Fryer he used to sing in Steel Ice Band er now I know that that 's sort of very old hat , I 'm sorry , but I sort of live in the past and er this er I I believe also that these days so that er you know I can sort of justify that but this is a song that er she has sung which er reminds us that each of us has the potential to commit the crime I 'll try not to play it fast forward , let's see how we go . |
| 5 | ‘ Communication is difficult but I can sort of make myself understood in some ways . |
| 6 | Foot in the door a bit see , see if I can sort of , you know |
| 7 | Mind you , it 's always the sa like it 's the work th getting on with the machines I can sort of work through the |
| 8 | So I thought well if I can sort of get think to myself a rough idea before I go Jonathan 's going to Geoff 's mums cos Geoff 's got ta work all day Saturday you see ? |
| 9 | And I said I can sort of keep on top of mine , but I said I am up early . |
| 10 | I can sort of get through it and erm understanding it 's |
| 11 | said all I 'm worried about is did I wash my hair too early for you so she said it 's alright I 've got a spray that I can sort of cos she likes it quite wet when she |
| 12 | And that is as much as I can sort of remember . |
| 13 | But I would imagine that 's what she wants to train Teresa up for , so she can just run it and she can sort of |
| 14 | ‘ You can sort of tell . ’ |
| 15 | And I mean over the years you can sort of pick a sample out and say ‘ It 's pretty close , this one ’ ; or , y'know , ‘ Do something about it ’ , there and then , if you think there is anything that can be done . |
| 16 | When you when you 're reading this through , you 're having a quick skim through , you can can you can cross out , you can sort of totally obliterate |
| 17 | But within that probation period you can sort of like get dismissed for any time quite easily . |
| 18 | They 're called a pacifier and you can sort of like use them to strike and to defend yourself with them yeah ? |
| 19 | If you think we 're doing too much you can sort of say , Ooh hang on . |
| 20 | Now Jean was pleased because I do sequence dancing which I learnt with my husband , and so now this coming September when we start back again , once a month I 'm going to teach some sequence dancing in the hope that some young ones would , will hear of it and , and join because then once you can sort of get them involved with one thing you may sort of get good numbers . |
| 21 | And that way when you analyze the results you can sort of say , Well we found that say Birmingham was very disliked erm but you can say that was n't I mean if everybody in the whole sample |
| 22 | But I mean it 's up to you if results are very simple you can sort of say , Oh well sixty percent went this way and forty |
| 23 | Er oh keep these numbers small so you can sort of play about on the number line more easily , and ten minus , minus ten take away minus four . |
| 24 | So you , you can sort of think about it . |
| 25 | If you can sort of say well that has been proven , this is the research , this is the system , this is the model , theorists actually enjoy that because they think well this is n't just somebody 's gut reaction , this is something that somebody spends a long time actually thinking about it considering . |
| 26 | Then you talk about erm how how the characters that Constance and Kate have different sides and then you can sort of . |
| 27 | you can sort of chair that that |
| 28 | Yeah yeah certainly , erm I think that 's er that 's good , well if , if you can , if you can access it er in some way informally or , or , you know , it 's probably un unlikely that you 'd get too much stuff in writing as you say but , you know , er it could be very er productive and interesting erm tt erm can that sort of thing , particularly if you can get it in terms of quotes from people , you can sort of , you know , make a project look quite nice because it looks like if you do all this , you know , sort of stuff with the attitude scales it , it 's er it gives you lots of nice numerical data but er |
| 29 | you know because some people claim not to , blind and sighted , er you know and then , then maybe you can sort of say well , you know , what sort of things do you see , what sort of things do you feel and then get on to something specific |
| 30 | er but erm that kind of thing where you can sort of scale the responses in some way or say how many times a week or say how many times in the last year or how many times since Christmas or something erm fine yeah you can do , you can do stats on that , you can hopefully find P less than point O five etcetera etcetera between the different groups |