Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] n't quite [vb infin] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The thief did that , ’ she told him , ‘ and I do n't quite know how I can repair it . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't quite know how we 'll manage it , ’ Anna said , ‘ But we will , somehow . |
| 3 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 4 | I do n't quite know how you change it . |
| 5 | I do n't quite know how to put this . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't quite know how to handle it , ’ said David , lowering his voice and putting on a mock-serious face . |
| 7 | But we survived , I do n't quite know how . |
| 8 | Not quite sure how to broach the subject , and not wishing to be indiscreet , she murmured awkwardly , ‘ I do n't quite know how to put this , but part of the reason for my visit was to try and trace someone who lived here a long time ago , only I do n't quite like to ask around , because the person I 'm looking for might not like it — might not want everyone to know her business . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't quite know how , erm , |
| 10 | I do n't quite know how to put this but but er she found what was in the village news offensive . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't quite see how , Judy . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I do n't quite understand how the government think they 'll keep getting away with this . |
| 15 | In Walsall Wood erm as I say , we used to have er two big bags full on a Fri Friday and then in the week we could go up but you 've got your bread but , you know , yo the men would be , I can just picture them with their little , all this pretty coloured paper would all be in little piles and when there were no customers , they would be wrapping the rice , the raisins , the currants , all in these pretty papers you see and they knew , I mean you 'd ask them for currants and they never sort of knew , I did n't quite understand how they could pick by , it 'd be by the paper you see . |
| 16 | There were quite a lot of drugs around at the time and somehow or other , I did n't quite know how , I managed to scrape enough together to feed my children and keep my flat going and just keep my life ticking over . |
| 17 | I was just thinking that the dinner 's probably only just come on , I did n't quite know how long , how late we be huh . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , seeing the keen glint in his eye and the impatient energy to get the thing settled that he was betraying , she did n't quite know how to turn him down . |
| 19 | After those years of hard work , she did n't quite know how to be social and high-spirited and careless of the future like so many other girls of her own age . |
| 20 | He 'd also said Leo was a tycoon , only she did n't quite know how to ask him about that . |
| 21 | That 's why she is a bit nervous ; she would like to be alone with him , without Paul , and she does n't quite know how to arrange it . |
| 22 | But it 's mainly to erm present it to this committee , the trial balance sheet , She does n't quite know how to do that and altogether she feels she just wants she says , how she 's doing it now , at least she wants to check out with somebody , is she doing it how they would do it . |
| 23 | They were all in a meeting , and they did n't quite know how to deal with me — I was the first celebrity ever to have gone . |