Example sentences of "know quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dorothy , I do n't know quite how to put this , but is there something you 're not telling me that might help me understand this a bit better . |
| 2 | It 's a hell-raiser with 24-carat cuff-links and rounded vowels , it 's a freshly squeezed orange juice with a large shot of vodka — and like a Mickey Finn , the beauty of the Bentley is that you do n't know quite what you 've let yourself in for . |
| 3 | Sheridan might have made a difference given the chance — but then we 'll never know quite what sent the skilful midfielder packing to Sheffield Wednesday after hardly a sniff of the City Ground . |
| 4 | ‘ When I come to think about it afterwards , I do n't know quite what he was after . ’ |
| 5 | He hopes to show that , although we can not know quite what the former say we can , nevertheless we can still know more than the latter allow . |
| 6 | Muldoon did n't know quite what to say . |
| 7 | Normally , if a horse acts aggressively towards us we let it know quite clearly that such behaviour is unacceptable , and punish it appropriately and immediately , so that there is no doubt in the horse 's mind what the punishment is for . |
| 8 | ‘ One does n't know quite what 's going to happen next . ’ |
| 9 | She knew she was missing something , even if she did not know quite what , but she and her parents had returned to their large room at the base of the Grimsdale 's house . |
| 10 | They do n't know quite how to react . |
| 11 | Even the highly cosmopolitan and very trendy audiences of New York City did not know quite what to say about it ; a typical reaction was from May Okon , of the New York Sunday News who wrote : ‘ Jack Nicholson 's Drive , He Said is how it read on the marquee of the Third Avenue movie house . |
| 12 | If you have used one of these , you will already know quite a bit about video recording from handling video cassettes , and knowing what all the tape control buttons are for . |
| 13 | For a time I did n't know quite how to respond . |
| 14 | I did n't know quite what to answer , but he saved me the trouble . |
| 15 | After her first visit to Millie , Aggie returned home somewhat perplexed , and she said to Ben , ‘ I do n't know quite what to make of her . |
| 16 | It does not know quite where it belongs , or what it stands for . |
| 17 | I do n't know quite why that should be except that in the Fifties all my peers were fascinated by the industrialised , consumer society of which the USA was the supreme example . |
| 18 | I did n't know quite where or how or with whom but I was going to turn in at the Gendarmerie and take it from there . |
| 19 | He did not know quite what to do about this . |
| 20 | It was my first attempt at this and I did not know quite what to expect . |
| 21 | He now came in so many shapes and sizes they did n't know quite where they were with Him . |
| 22 | I do not know quite what at that time was the stance adopted by W. 's aunt as first respondent . |
| 23 | And then we dismantle the Rante and sell or use the materials — I do n't know quite how or what for yet but , first , sleep and dream . " |
| 24 | Erm , we do know quite a lot about erm , why it is that when you diet you start to think about food all the time , and why it is that certain things happen , and I think that there 's more and more information and knowledge being gathered and yes , the na , the desire to change has to come from the individual but perhaps , having clinics available where people can go when they 're ready to change or where they can get help . |
| 25 | Well if you if you could n't read it yeah you can get someone to help you but if you ca n't u usually see you know quite a lot of words . |
| 26 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |
| 27 | I always finished up as a bandit , or a pirate , I do n't know quite why . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know quite , ’ said Lili , ‘ but that 's what it feels like . ’ |
| 29 | He did not know quite what was implied by all this business of dresses , but he sensed something ugly — and flinched . |
| 30 | Erm because once you 've got their approval that increase the attraction and the intelligibility of what you 're saying and predictability but I do n't know quite what they mean by that . |