Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] sort " in BNC.

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1 And we should just sort of say what is necessary to find out and everybody gets a few telephone numbers or telephone calls check out addresses find out about new ones , get in contact with the district council erm what is in the pipeline .
2 What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built
3 You may just sort of er form a picture in your mind just sit there and lip read sort of concentrate .
4 Erm , what I 'll also do , we 'll only sort of talk for about twenty five minutes , about the essay , and then we 'll look at sh writing short answers er , for the exam ,
5 I 've already put in our comments in writing on this to Chris and I 'll just sort of draw some of them save me repeating them .
6 Erm I 'll just sort of er talk briefly about sort of main trends and , and sort of output and orders and so on and then go through in terms of some of the implications that results as regards to employment and domestic crisis .
7 And they 've got ta try and walk backwards I 'll just sort of go whoop !
8 Right , this is an extremely good slide , I did take this myself , erm of the actual dress of the eighteen forties , I 'll just sort of point out its components .
9 Could we just go on to twenty one and we might just sort of stop this part of the lesson there .
10 If I just knew where he was prepared to stand and then could just sort of do the things round about .
11 I mean if you were being really dangerous and you wanted to die soon you could just sort of get a piece of bare wire and
12 You could just sort of tuck it in here under her waistband .
13 You know I would , I 'd just sort of
14 Do you have any recollections of any particular disputes and maybe an answer that you could possibly sort of , make a few comments on whether you felt the the procedures were worked out so finely that they in fact prevented disputes because they were so long and drawn out perhaps or er it took the fire out of disputes if you like ?
15 I often think I wish you know we could capture some of those again I think it would jolly well I , I , I wish government could , could really sort of kn know what it was like .
16 There was four routes there now and we had as many as ten buses operating those four , so it meant they were left , you could n't sort of segregate them .
17 So that meant that he was he could n't sort of do a heavy heavy work so he just used to do odd job things you know , he 'd sell horse and carts and er he 'd go down to the pier when he used to do the fishing boats , he used to come in and he 'd buy a box of fish from them and go round the streets selling them you know .
18 you know was that they 'd got results which they could n't sort of like apply
19 books , and you could n't sort of swop the
20 Yes , I just wondered if they could n't sort of do a , a deal , you know to get them by air , the only thing about it is if they got to sort of
21 Yeah you could n't sort of get at any where near him to start with .
22 and she er she could n't sort of feel guilty about it
23 The thing is , you ca n't really , you could n't sort of see this jagged mess .
24 and I felt quite happy especially with a bow tie on , you know , it had been , it had gone you know and in a way we sort of could almost sort of
25 th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident .
26 and the other one was erm a mother of two and she said that even when she was younger she was always overweight and she could never sort of go out with anybody nice and she just settled for anybody sort of thing , I felt sorry for her husband , mind you saying this like , cos he looked a bit thick and er
27 you could actually sort of talk about , right a full time centre is ten half day sessions , two full time centre equals twenty half day sessions
28 But I , I dare n't sort of do nothing cos that 's gon na upset our Joe if I do .
29 Erm for instance , you go to one meeting and erm you would just sort of , mind you I think probably you may not agree , young people perhaps think this is the best way .
30 So sometimes the sisters would , would really sort of get it in for a nurse and she 'd and they could make your life very unpleasant indeed .
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