Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] know quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She does n't get out much ’ , a phrase that Shirley had learned to use of her mother to forestall enquiry , impertinence , sympathy : a middle-aged phrase that she heard in her own voice as parody — indeed , she had noticed that when ‘ the family ’ gathered together all of them spoke in parodies of clichés , and some of them knew quite well that they were doing it . |
| 2 | They were going out into the world though none of them knew quite where until it was announced in public at their Commissioning Service it , the Albert Hall . |
| 3 | Now , some men think right , I 'll walk across the road others will think well I 'll stay behind because it might be safer cos there might be somebody lurking in the corners none of us know quite how to react to that . |
| 4 | Our usual nervousness about meeting clients seemed more intense this bright morning for neither of us knew quite what to expect of the senator 's children . |
| 5 | Few of the business-men and politicians who get excited about it know quite what it means , but they know what they do not like . |