Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | . And of course , being so in the back seat they sort of when they , they she |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | you can a bit its sort of it , you know the pub on the other side |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was so abused as a child she sort refuge in the stables and now thinks she 's a horse . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Are you able to tell us in open session what sort of weapons are envisaged ? |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Ha during this erm this period what sort of business was being transacted in the lodge ? |
| 14 | There 's the flour what sort of flour do we want ? |
| 15 | yeah hydrochloric acid what sort of a salt would it make ? |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | What sort what sort of house was it ? |
| 18 | What sort what sort of commissions can you get on double glazing ? |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | Gillian Lacy and Roberto Mader 's Capoeira Quickstep is the most ambitious and also most disappointing of the collection , a ‘ fictional documentary ’ about the Afro — Brazilian dance-cum-martial art which sort of spins off from a relationship between a British girl and a Brazilian but meanders somewhat in sub-Terence Davies style without even coming up with much in the way of dance . |
| 21 | Yellow-like in colour it sort of floated in the air . |
| 22 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
| 23 | I think what 's very striking about the report which the students ' union have recently published and are circulating around the university , is the extent to which they have tended to define sexual harassment as being as much or at least as much a problem between students , a problem of behaviour between students and a problem of the sort of atmosphere in the colleges in terms of how that affects how peoples lives feel and and how they are how their behaviour what sort of behaviour is acceptable . |
| 24 | A very familiar example is that quoted above ( p. 175 ) , where the difference between falling and rising intonation on question-tags is supposed to indicate to the listener what sort of response is expected . |
| 25 | At er well this week you sort of look back and say yeah but erm in about ten years time if you come and ask me the same question I would be able be in a better position to give you an answer . |
| 26 | But when Volks recalled the loan we sort of give up . |
| 27 | This encouraged Angel to ask his father what sort of wife a farmer needed . |
| 28 | Ask any caterer what sort of foods we make a beeline for and you 'll be told that it 's the fried things — fish in batter and double chips ; bacon and egg with fried bread ; burgers dripping in saturated fat ; bangers and more chips . |
| 29 | Erm y'know that that sort of thing when they when they y'know when they might be , when they feel when they feel that some some other bloke 's making an approach to them , when they feel that er y'know erm somebody finds them attractive , when they think that some other bloke has made a pass at them or something like that y'know they sort of react in a hostile way but y'know there 's that suspicion that mm er y'know kind of er it 's because they 're insecure about their masculinity , it 's because they feel threatened or something like that . |
| 30 | He 's alright like that , last night , once he went to sleep I sort of like staying around in his room for a couple of minutes , but I , went and opened you know , sort , sorted the curtains out and |