Example sentences of "really knowing what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Panic may often set in , with the fishkeeper not really knowing what to do and wondering whether it 's his fault , or if he has been sold sick fish . |
| 2 | I would dip blanket after blanket in boiling water , wring them out almost without realising that I was scalding myself , take off the old strips of saturated cloth , wrap the new ones round each leg and tuck them into the corners of affected muscles , but half the time not really knowing what I was doing . |
| 3 | And a prosthetist said : ‘ You have a great understanding of their problems because no matter how good a prosthetist is , if he 's got two legs he falls short of really knowing what it 's like . ’ |
| 4 | It was at this point , while we were stumbling about , not really knowing what to say with so many other people present , that Eric suggested we should borrow a driver and jeep from the ASC — this boy was the biggest borrower of jeeps I had ever met — and set off for Fontanellato , where we could all be reunited : my parents , the Merlis , the Superiora and the suore at the hospital , and as many of the other people who had helped him as possible , including Dr Sambataro , of whom there had been no news since he joined the partisans . |
| 5 | In the beginning an arm-band was all we had to identify us with an assortment of weapons , not enough ammunition , and not really knowing what our role was . |
| 6 | She stared at him again , not moving , not really knowing what to do . |
| 7 | Famous physicists talk about God without really knowing what the word means . |
| 8 | ‘ It was so easy to say I wanted to go to Australia , without really knowing what he meant . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It has been a traumatic time , with nobody really knowing what was happening . |
| 10 | I was still in pain and still in shock and not really knowing what was going on . |