Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was about a month ago ; one afternoon I sort of burst into father 's office to ask him something . |
| 2 | Oh I had a huge list of names really you know of erm you know we had quite big meetings where people seem to have come out of their parties their sort of sectarianism really you know which er the left is notorious for if you like if you want to use cliches . |
| 3 | . And of course , being so in the back seat they sort of when they , they she |
| 4 | Well the parrot he sort of came in the Boar War he did he sort of flitted on my shoulder and I 've been lumbered with him ever since and nobody seems to want him . |
| 5 | Well , no darling I was gon na say Ken he sort of suggested |
| 6 | Those are the herring gull and the lesser black-backed gull , which are two terminal links in a series of forms which sort of form a ring around the pole . |
| 7 | you can a bit its sort of it , you know the pub on the other side |
| 8 | Well it does n't exactly kill them kill the it 's got it 's own smell which sort of tends to mask the smell but it 's also basically to kill the germs . |
| 9 | yeah , I 've done that Jane you sort of look one day and you think there 's hardly anything |
| 10 | She was so abused as a child she sort refuge in the stables and now thinks she 's a horse . |
| 11 | Well when Panda , when you were peeling potatoes she sort of lying on your back when you was bending there like that . |
| 12 | Well they 've only got one , one girl who sort of does clerical and stuff and reception , they have n't got a anybody who knows how to . |
| 13 | And they come in , I mean he skids in the hall at night I mean it 's my fault I threw the rubber ring towards the kitchen down the hall he sort of skidded before he got there and there was a , and he must of had mud er , you know like like he had |
| 14 | Are you able to tell us in open session what sort of weapons are envisaged ? |
| 15 | because , yeah well I thought I might and then he said something about I was at this meeting where I was talking to all these official in their suits and ties and I was only dressed casual and I thought , at that point I sort of |
| 16 | And for years I sort of just dismissed it as a sort of thing I did in my past . |
| 17 | And er , I like the fact that we 've got similar cottages down here , we 've got this one here , but similar ones there so there 's nothing in the picture which sort of erm detracts from that er very pretty , that little cottage . |
| 18 | And it 's also you know your first few days you sort of you , you become a leech do n't you to the person that you know , you know the person sitting next to you . |
| 19 | I 'm not sending him there I 'll have to get Geoff to tell you about the story of , you know erm drama he says is pretty bad because , I mean in drama you sort of mess about any way do n't ya ? |
| 20 | Now I know that some of those days we sort of said hi I 'm here naturally |
| 21 | Erm there is a study where they looked into erm men in the workforce and women and in the workforce and er if men worked together in factories it sort of reinforces their speech patterns , their workmates are reinforcing their speech pattern so they 're more likely to use non- standard . |
| 22 | Ha during this erm this period what sort of business was being transacted in the lodge ? |
| 23 | There 's the flour what sort of flour do we want ? |
| 24 | yeah hydrochloric acid what sort of a salt would it make ? |
| 25 | Sort of consortium What — somebody tell me in the group what sort of press release you had , what did it describe , so that we , the other people have n't seen it , have they ? |
| 26 | What sort what sort of house was it ? |
| 27 | What sort what sort of commissions can you get on double glazing ? |
| 28 | Right , things we 'd like to see in psychology Is there any I mean any the trouble is you do n't know what 's on the menu so it 's hard to but I mean what sort what sort of things would you like to have seen from pr what you have a ? |
| 29 | I 'm terrible at going er since er October I sort of become really is n't it ? |
| 30 | Women tend to use more questions which sort of softens the effect of what they 're saying , so they 'll say things like , There we go and the men say things like , Let's go . |