Possible Clues:

• We run into a place? Kind of
• Was out covering it in this place with tip-off, in a manner of speaking
• Model wears tie, so to speak
• The Guardian's after a rest in a way
• One might say grace at last, after waiter's moved
• Qualifying words
• Historically ungrammatical, so to speak
• Not a stand, in a manner of speaking, we are, in short
• Baffled head waiters had left like this
• Waits around here for a Cockney, so to speak