Example sentences of "do [adv] quite see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorothea supposed that change must affect even such trivialities as the uniform of waitresses , although she did not quite see why , and it was a note of uncertainty in an otherwise happy day . |
| 2 | Falstaff as ‘ a masculine decayed cornucopious form of the love goddess ’ is amusing as a paradox , though how the boar can be both Mars and Persephone I do not quite see . |
| 3 | An officer on an accompanying ship did n't quite see it that way . |
| 4 | Peggy did n't quite see how when she could n't even say what the thief looked like . |
| 5 | He is ‘ a gentleman with a rather perplexed expression of face , and with very grey hair disordered on his head , as if he did n't quite see his way to putting anything straight ’ , but kind and honest . |
| 6 | Ceauşescu must have amused his colleagues with his remarks ‘ strongly in favour of the acceptance of free will ’ and his thought that ‘ the withering away of the State would be very welcome though he did n't quite see the withering away of the [ Communist ] Party ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You once said something about Elise 's frame of mind , and I did n't quite see what you were implying . |
| 8 | They 're all gon na go to London and campaign about something , we did n't quite see what it was . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't quite see how , Judy . ’ |
| 10 | Presently , he said , ‘ If it 's going to help , by all means interview Edna , but I do n't quite see how raking up the past , digging into something which might be better left alone , is going to get Celia over this illness , turn her into a normal woman again . ’ |
| 11 | Pushing it back on to the desk without taking her eyes from it , she said , ‘ I do n't quite see . |
| 12 | I 've been thinking that you ought to get away from here for a bit , but I do n't quite see how I could leave the hospital just now . |
| 13 | Erm by the city in the city institutions of London he 's seen as quite a a robust character but they do n't quite see eye to eye on the issues of the company . |
| 14 | I do n't quite see the joke , but then , I 'm busy sulking . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't quite see , ’ she said slowly , ‘ why you should want to do this . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't quite see ’ , said one of them , ‘ how Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) is going to stop these humans . |