sort of thing

'I'd been thinking that I had "rights" ; that I could lead my own life and all that sort of thing.

He knows that would be a disgrace to a pirate, and Tom's too proud for that sort of thing.

It better not! You've been warned about this sort of thing before!

They are usually on top of this sort of thing, but the only thing on top was our performer, and what a performance!

The snowballing online reaction sends a clear message that people are not prepared to take this sort of thing lying down.

I don't have any illusions that this sort of thing could be anything near a complete education. Some lessons have to be hard-won.

This sort of thing can be very dangerous.

We assume that sort of thing goes on because we have had proof of that since at least early 1998.

Keeping this sort of thing private may be warranted, at least when it comes to the details.

The usual thing, you know, but I told her it was no good trying on that sort of thing with me.

After a few months, they release a firmware update or two to fix bugs, maybe add a few features, that sort of thing.

Let's suppose that this sort of thing can just keep on going forever.

It starts with a barely perceptible blurring of vision from time to time - the sort of thing you might chalk up to getting older.

This sort of thing seems to be happening every other week with him now.

I hear this sort of thing all the time. This happens even when the woman likes the man. Somehow the man still goofs it up.

All this was said with a special sort of pride - we all know how that sort of thing is said.

He is a great friend of mine, buys all my pictures and that sort of thing, and gave me a commission a month ago to paint him as a beggar.

When they bombed those islands, when they attacked the boat off the coast, that sort of thing?

Because that's the lingra franca of the elite--of business, and of government, and all that sort of thing.

"That sort of thing makes me sick, " he said roughly.

You don't have to actually wikify either questions or answers, though. The site handles that sort of thing automatically.

The whole episode could easily make one think that this sort of thing must have been what it was like in Germany during the 1930's.

"Once you open up this can of worms, there's all sorts of very adventurous thinking on this sort of thing, " Mortlock said.

Easy enough to fix, but it's an example of the sort of thing that makes people write giant configure scripts.

It's one of the most jaw-dropping moments of the book, the sort of thing you can't wait to see in a movie.

I do not know--I only guess it, because that sort of thing is generally found in prisoners' cells.

Whenever people say that sort of thing, you know they don't mean it.

SEAN: If that sort of thing happened only once in a while, it wouldn't be so bad.

There didn't seem to be any of that sort of thing going on, but no smoke without fire and so on . . .

This was all new and challenging, not the sort of thing its thousands of partners had come to expect.

That sort of thing removed the wonder of the truly alien for an ignorant populace, Peter would say.

Take a few moments to center yourself, open your mind, and get spiritual. . . if that sort of thing is helpful for you.

The grass is always greener on the other side, that sort of thing.

My mother, sister, and I have always been sensitive to things not of this world, intuition, that sort of thing.

He was good at that sort of thing. It no doubt helped with his election campaign later.

It's not the sort of thing where he's sitting around somewhere looking at his watch and saying, oh man, I got an achy knee.

On the naturalistic view the beasts are at bottom just the same sort of thing as ourselves. Man is simply the cleverest of the anthropoids.

On my travels with grassroots football, you get people saying 'you've got to improve that sort of thing' - and we will try to improve it.

I visited newspapers across the country public opinion and media information and found that there is much that sort of thing.

This was not the sort of thing country boys did when they played at fisticuffs and Jack was furious.

What I call the huffing and puffing people. So this looks at fitness testing, body measurements, all that sort of thing.

I'm assuming that means I'm going to rejuvenate. I'm a little tired for that sort of thing at this point!

I have been used to this sort of thing.

A ring from a failed marriage is not the sort of thing one wants to pass down as a family heirloom.

though this is the sort of thing that will work itself out over the next decade as more un. . . tumors data become available.

She's going through some kind of - close to - an emotional breakdown sort of thing.

Joanne: Well, you know, make money, do a good job. That sort of thing.

Part of me can't fully wrap my mind around the idea that this sort of thing could happen to me.

Clearly a bit has been spent on anti-ageing, although I wouldn't want to name names as people can get funny about this sort of thing.

That sort of thing comes easy to any folk not brought firmly back to earth once a year by a fall.

Ruskin points out that this sort of thing happened between 2005 and 2007, too, but there's a difference now.

That takes a lot of patience and computing power, and tends to be the sort of thing only intelligence agencies indulge in.

The scale of the ambition makes it the sort of thing that only a Google would contemplate - or be able to afford.

To encourage more of that sort of thing, the government levies a carbon tax on Norway's dirtiest industries.

Such questions are worth consideration but are not the sort of thing that can be solved in an instant.

I tried to test him a little bit, see if he could go left, go right, that sort of thing.

Obie: I never had a taste for this sort of thing, but I must admit, I'm deeply enjoying the suit.

I expected her to refuse. I just thought of her as set in her ways, and this sort of thing certainly wasn't among her habits.

Noise, neighbors, that sort of thing. I'll do my best to answer them, But I can't give out a client's personal information.

But doctors are not normally looking for that sort of thing unless you've got a history of a premature birth.

How often this sort of thing happens is hard to say. But Daniele Fanelli of the University of Edinburgh thought he would try to find out.

Woman But it's your business. I never expected this sort of thing to happen in such a hotel.

Aziraphale healed bicycles and broken bones; he longed to steal a few radios, let down some tires, that sort of thing.

Homosexuals often abhor this sort of thing and will also be incredibly particular about the cleanliness of the home.

Feel free to drop me a link to an app that makes this sort of thing enjoyable, but I don't believe such a thing exists.

Yeah, I've heard if you're not ready for that sort of thing, it could easily precipitate disaster.

Elders also have to have wives, be family men, and all this sort of thing.

I can usually retain what I need to long enough for that sort of thing.

I had, of course, read about this sort of thing.

But it's also time consuming, it causes pain, a hole in the heart, that sort of thing.

Each GUI provides different tools for this sort of thing; please check the help section or online manuals for assistance.

"Ultimately, this sort of thing scares the hell out of me, " King says. "But it is the way that things are. "

I'm not a political strategist and, besides, not even the political strategists can be sure about this sort of thing.

It is only a question whether he will have more or less of that sort of thing, and how he will arrange to make it possible.

It's what I call an "all-rounder. " Sort of thing one can wear with anything to any occasion.

She's an Evanston liberal-reformer type, and I really doubt she'd traffic in that sort of thing.

It was really nice to see someone doing the same sort of thing.

It's the sort of thing that the veritable room full of monkeys with typewriters would be able to generate, given enough time.

What I'd really like to find out is whether people would sometimes want to go on a holiday, as we do. That sort of thing.

That sort of thing can't go on like this .

Stopping that sort of thing by bringing the price down would be a good thing by itself.

Mr Basescu backed the issuing of Romanian passports to Moldovans (just the sort of thing Russia does in its former empire).

History of genetics. I'm into all that sort of thing.

We're looking for an administrative assistant, someone who can use a computer, do some filing. . . that sort of thing.

He did that sort of thing; it's called the Hexapla because it had six columns of the Old Testament.

Perhaps a worthy cause, but not the sort of thing on which one builds a middle class.

It may not be the sort of thing to discuss over dinner, but research is opening a lively debate on the origin of the anus.

Certainly if you spent the amount for that sort of thing charged to the hosts a head, in a restaurant, you'd get something far better.

There was shared attention looking at the same sort of thing, and recognizing socially communicated reinforcement at the end.

With far more money than any other party, the NCP can afford to do this sort of thing.

With far more money than any other party, the NCP can afford to do this sort of thing.

Fans might say that players are paid enough to put up with this sort of thing, but that's a peculiar kind of morality.

That sort of thing will all get ironed out over the next several weeks.

"It's quite too late for that sort of thing now, " he said.

It's astonishing that she should say that sort of thing to you.

Isn't that the sort of thing venture capitalists used to say about the U.

But that's the sort of thing that happens in cinemas these days, when there's only one projectionist looking after umpteen screens.

Okay, I'll admit, the Stern Review on Traffic Jams doesn't sound like the sort of thing to keep you awake at night.

Now you think director has got to be a leader, leader of, captain of the ship, and all that sort of thing.

The Badger did not mind that sort of thing at all, nor did he take any notice of elbows on the table, or everybody speaking at once.

That's not the worst of it. The worst thing is I know this sort of thing will happen to me again.

It is all most annoying: I thought women with good jobs would escape this sort of thing.

Come to think of it, if players in the National Hockey League did this sort of thing more often, the sport's television ratings might soar.

That was the sort of thing that made a young man with broadcasting stars in his eyes . . . glow in the dark. I'm Steve Ember.

Not just grades and that sort of thing, but how we behaved in public, how we would be socially.

Bear Stearns's "shotgun marriage" to J. P. Morgan "is not the sort of thing we set out to do, " he told the audience.

This sort of thing is called managing, and the beauty of it is that it makes formal appraisals quite unnecessary.

Well, the product of this sort of thing is called inflation.

Don't use the occasion as an opportunity for asserting your own relative, temporary superiority to that sort of thing.

We all have to improve on this sort of thing. But oftentimes they'll cite distractions.

Student: Inaudible Prof: Cocaine is addictive or cocaine is Student: Inaudible Prof: You could say the same sort of thing, yep.

But then you think we've coped before when this sort of thing has happened.

'He wouldn't come, ' replied the Rat simply. 'Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing. '

Of course, this sort of thing is happening all over the world, wherever the gospel is going out.

And we're starting to see that same sort of thing with robots: LEGO Mindstorms, Furbies -- who here -- did anyone here have a Furby?

But I'm very surprised that this sort of thing is happening now.

But ultimately, he doesn't care about this sort of thing as much as you might expect.

Tere is nothing I can do about that sort of thing, so I don't spend time thinking about, what might have happened.

I used to think this sort of thing was not only naff but unnecessary: that talent would always out in the end.

We do not intend to put up with this sort of thing for much longer.

it was quite ingenious , but not the sort of thing you usually associate with fighting a war .

As you approach it would then say something like "these oranges are the best from Spain, would you like to try them? " that sort of thing.

She said it gave her more time for reading and that sort of thing.

I phoned every director I know to ask if they had any experience of this sort of thing.

As the technology evolves, as you get full immersive displays and whatnot, this sort of thing will only grow.

occasion This sort of thing is usual on occasions like this.

You see this sort of thing all the time in films or on the TV, and now suddenly it's happening in my life.

However, more lovers in before marriage, all that sort of thing, that is the hurt.

Nobody's made a direct link yet, but at this stage you have to be concerned about that sort of thing, the possibility.

In the sense that they are doing much the same sort of thing in much the same sort of way, this would be true enough.

When my father and brother start to talk about politics I just don't listen. All that sort of thing is well above my head.

That was the sort of thing that always happened to attractive girls in the movies, after all.

The subjects covered are traditional: consumption, tax, currencies, inflation, that sort of thing.

The wonderful things about living is that, this sort of thing can happen.

This seems like the sort of thing a serial killer might do.

Investors, Schiller promises, will be interested in making bets on this sort of thing.

The same sort of thing is going on, although it's a little simpler.

You can never tell about this sort of thing.

"I don't know, " he said on Tuesday. "It's not the sort of thing we do is it? "

Newspapers make such an awful fuss of this sort of thing.

That sort of thing. Jesus is giving instructions about how the church should behave itself and what the church will be like.

So, it's not the sort of thing that affects her just for a short period.

But the 'also rans, ' no, really we never thought it to be our sort of thing.

Try him, anyhow. Pitch it fairly warm, you know. Only cat you ever loved, and that sort of thing.

Spam researchers say this sort of thing is happening all the time at companies everywhere.

No, not at all. I'm accustomed to this sort of thing.

This rarely happens simply because women are TRAINED not to initiate this sort of thing.

It's the contemplation of this sort of thing that makes me deplore my fate in being a bachelor.

The wonderful about living is that this sort of thing can happen.

Sometimes, they are literally little books, the sort of thing you might give someone as a Christmas gift today.

Various CDO managers would be asked by banks if they would go along with this sort of thing.

A flood of negative review certainly could be the sort of thing that makes Amazon's system blink.

But the governments have been saying this sort of thing for decades, and the results are decidedly mixed.

But should users really have to visit a specific website to do this sort of thing?

There's quite a lot of this sort of thing around these days, and we confidently predict a lot more in the near future.

This may sound like a lot of effort but generating random games is the sort of thing computers excel at.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

That there is a moon hanging in the air or in the atmosphere, and that you go and find the same sort of thing that is here.

"I'd be into talking more about your idea for putting together a show" - that sort of thing can help turn chit chat into reality.

it is fair to point out that the drought is the sort of thing such change is expected to make more likely, not less.

If Google thinks this sort of thing is a threat, it should take a careful look at Yelp, where crowdsourcing has been institutionalized.

This sort of thing will become increasingly common, analysts predict, because consumers want it.

Women voters, people from minority communities and that sort of thing.

That's the sort of thing you realise, how lucky you are to be living your profession.

Other countries representative: Don't even think about it to use that sort of thing to attend in expo.

It's hard to get money. It's not the sort of thing that happens by default.

Of course that sort of thing was not convenient, so we sent a shell and blew the signaller all to pieces.

Having an ebook be read aloud (ie for the blind) even if that book has controls built into it to prevent that sort of thing.

This sort of thing wasn't supposed to happen to an advanced nation with sophisticated policy makers.

Measuring the electric dipole moment, then, is the sort of thing that really floats physicists' boats.

If you haven't done a lot of this sort of thing, some of the code may seem odd.

Dr Wolfe believes this sort of thing happens all the time. He calls it viral chatter.

But this sort of thing is much easier for giants like China or large countries like Bangladesh, than it is for poorer Mali or tiny Maldives.

The same sort of thing is happening all over America.

This sort of thing should remove all doubt about the credibility of the decision makers in Washington.

That sort of thing, though it undoubtedly descends to the level of "man bites dog" journalism , is perhaps unavoidable nowadays.

Both Barclays and RBS have done this sort of thing before.

This sort of thing used to take remarkable effort.

It is also the sort of thing that would have made an interesting talking point at dinner parties.

These days, there's a lot more of that sort of thing.

According to the laws that govern this sort of thing, this document should have been doubly unreadable.

Thecomputer club inspired me to think "There is a lot of people interested in this sort of thing that I am good at doing. " So I built it.

Participants in the short-term course attend lectures, have discussions, that sort of thing.

You need't have done all those calculations! We have a computer to do that sort of thing.

Needless to say, this sort of thing can take hours.

I make telephone calls to the banks, check the accounts, keep records. . . that sort of thing.

The Kaczynskis loathe this sort of thing. They like to stand above all for clean government. Their own probity is unquestioned .

2, If you have children, it is not the sort of thing (unless you are very modern-minded) that you would leave around at home.

"Claudia wanted people sneezing, getting immunized, that sort of thing, " recalls Harmel, a slight, soft-spoken 52-year-old.

The two went to work deliberately and regularly, like men accustomed to the sort of thing in which they were employed.

He should have known that the police would never allow this sort of thing.

Fancy his doing that sort of thing and then having the nerve to talk about it.

They are also both the sort of thing climate scientists expect more of in a warming world.

Their own technology is neolithic. . . bows and spears, clay pots, animal skins, that sort of thing.

It's like a second chance at life sort of thing.

This sort of thing is utterly opposed to all my principles.

Economic cooperation agreement, perhaps that sort of thing.

He didn't wish to say a recenty sort of thing to influence my decision.

would sometimes want to go on a holiday, as we do. That sort of thing.

I never thought I'd have to face this sort of thing in my life, ever.

Do we need a priest for that sort of thing?

UNDP officials retort that the Americans won't tell them what sort of thing they are allegedly hiding.

Unless you don't believe in that sort of thing because your a tree hugging, 'Fascist Liberal' hippy.

It's basically a defense against birds, reptiles, amphibians, that sort of thing.

Thankfully, contemporary operating systems are much better at this sort of thing.

And that, I think, is a sort of thing to watch out for.

I thought we were rising above this sort of thing.

"It was a 'don't try this at home' sort of thing, but I like to think we were being safe about it, " Adams says.

yeah, people chatting, laughing, moving around, that sort of thing?

You can get away with this sort of thing if you are a much loved character in children's literature.

Cold pork, now, especially if underdone , might produce this sort of thing.

Butterfly investments, futures. That sort of thing.

This sort of thing couldn't happen on British TV, of course, given the rules on product placement and sponsorship.

And he doesn't have Jesus give a long speech, he just has him appear there and that sort of thing.

That sort of thing that happened famously, I think, with the Challenger inquiry. . .

good luck selling those gas guzzlers. i guess China didn't get the memo about how bad the market is for this sort of thing.

His tracks were very jazz based and I couldn't do that sort of thing.

This sort of thing is opposed to all my principles.

For those who like that sort of thing, as Abraham Lincoln once said, it is just the sort of thing they would like.

These tales are pure entertainment, the sort of thing people would tell each other on a long winter's evening.

Exchanges, for whom this sort of thing is bread and butter, spy an opportunity too.

I had to learn mathematics and mechanics and all this sort of thing.

Dr Wolfe believes this sort of thing happens all the time.

The sort of thing you read about in a book. It hardly seems real.

With luck, this sort of thing will become rarer as scientists gather more data.

Jams and jellies make good Mother's Day gifts (as long as your mom likes that sort of thing).

That sounds horrible. Could that sort of thing actually happen?

In fact, this sort of thing often happened around us, human beings really are so brutal it?

That sort of thing is within the gift of politicians.

I don't know how to shoot. I am afraid of guns and all that sort of thing.

Oh, just the usual. Exports surging to record heights, that sort of thing.

The following "bad" code is a highly simplified example of the sort of thing we might put in our PHP developer exam.

Trinny: That's OK. This sort of thing happens all the time.

That sort of thing is quite occasional.

It's exaggerated. Actually this sort of thing happens to everyone.

As the technology improves, it is getting easier for other retailers to do the same sort of thing.

It is, if you appreciate this sort of thing, a perfectly serviceable motion picture.

What does your prayer book say and that sort of thing?

It's this: flapping birds, toys, cootie catchers, that sort of thing.

I'm not a Christian. I just want to know why Americans believe that sort of thing.

OK, let me have all the sales literature, and any other publicity material. I like to keep that sort of thing on file in my office.

I wanted to know more about these different sleep states, but Fitbit doesn't analyze that sort of thing.

The actual rigging on the reins on the horse are made from the same sort of thing.

You appeal to their desires and unrecognized longings, that sort of thing.

Yes, I saw this person leave it there, that sort of thing.

Trish: In that case, you should be used to this sort of thing.

If China wants it, this is the sort of thing America can afford to let go.

This is the sort of thing that Jeremy loves. He prepared the speech carefully and went to the wedding with Jenny.

This sort of thing and deep thinking is something only humans do, eh.

"It sounds like the sort of thing Fred and George would find funny, " said Mrs. Weasley hesitantly . "Are you sure. . . ? "