Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] n't quite [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The thief did that , ’ she told him , ‘ and I do n't quite know how I can repair it . |
| 4 | ‘ You once said something about Elise 's frame of mind , and I did n't quite see what you were implying . |
| 5 | it 's just I did want clarification on that point and I did n't quite understand the answer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And er they said they wanted a nurse , this child had been very sick and they did n't quite know what was wrong with him . |
| 10 | His head was whirling with excitement and he did n't quite know what to say . |
| 11 | He has a cottage which is in not good enough condition to let , he ca n't afford to do it up , and it does n't quite qualify as decrepit . |