Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] n't quite [vb infin] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't quite know what you want . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't quite know what it means . |
| 3 | ( Not , by the way , that I have my heart particularly set on a boy but , having grown up with only brothers , I do n't quite know what the female clichés look like . ) |
| 4 | I have n't made up my mind just yet , indeed , I do n't quite know what to do . |
| 5 | I do n't quite know what it is , but it 's more than looks . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't quite know what you mean by even at my age . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't quite know what I did to deserve this radical revision in status . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't quite know what that 's supposed to mean , ’ he said severely , ‘ but sometimes I think you pull rank on me a bit , Cassandra . |
| 9 | I do n't quite know what I 'm going to do about it . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't quite know what this is all about but I 'm sure I 've never seen either of you two gentlemen … ’ |
| 11 | I do n't quite know what 's , what happened , because I remember very well amending these details the last time it came to policy and resources , and that was agreed , because the changes you have made use the working , wording of the Thamesdown scheme , it seems to me far better , erm , as you have moved it , because er , very many people who are elderly , who are sixty-nine years or more or less do n't need any supervision at all . |
| 12 | Th there is erm a study going on to do with something called the British National Corpus which I do n't quite know what that 's about but they they want er samples of the sort of things that lecturers do in lecture theatres . |
| 13 | I do n't quite know what the idea of the visit was , but the French Canadians had a similar one — anyway , everyone sold gold bricks to one another like mad . |
| 14 | I do n't quite know what he does sometimes |
| 15 | I think we 'll just have a nice quiet day today erm there 's a little bit of a snag because I do n't quite know what we 're going to do about all these children that like to go to the library . |
| 16 | Because I got some by mistake cos it , yes I know it in Chinese dishes but I do n't quite know what they do with it . |
| 17 | yeah , erm , I do n't quite know what to do about this , this is , I 've taken some stuff out , if I can slide it down the |
| 18 | Well I do n't think actually , I mean I can remember and I do n't quite understand what 's going on here , keeps swapping and changing and I do n't understand it . |
| 19 | ‘ It just did n't sink in at the time — I did n't quite realise what was happening . |
| 20 | Oh I see what you mean er I did n't quite understand what you were talking about . |
| 21 | ‘ You once said something about Elise 's frame of mind , and I did n't quite see what you were implying . |
| 22 | I did n't quite know what to make of this dismal phrase immediately . |
| 23 | She did n't quite catch what he muttered under his breath , and , deciding it would be exceedingly foolish to ask him to repeat it , fled back to the restaurant . |
| 24 | She did n't quite know what to bring out . |
| 25 | She was taking eight months ' leave without pay from Coronation , but in the back of her mind was the odd feeling that she would n't be going back , and she did n't quite know what it meant . |
| 26 | She had n't told John about the colour scheme because she did n't quite know what he would say . |
| 27 | They 're all gon na go to London and campaign about something , we did n't quite see what it was . |
| 28 | We have oil in the North Sea which we are just wasting , we have gas which we get from the North Sea which we do n't quite know what to do with it . |
| 29 | We do n't quite know what happened . |
| 30 | Buddleia , same time as you planted the Buddleia , you planted this other thing , we do n't quite know what it is against the fence , and it kept sticking out when we played ball , do you remember ? |