Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] n't quite see " in BNC.

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1 I do n't quite see how , Judy . ’
2 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 . ’
3 Pushing it back on to the desk without taking her eyes from it , she said , ‘ I do n't quite see .
4 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 .
5 I do n't quite see the joke , but then , I 'm busy sulking .
6 I do n't quite see , ’ she said slowly , ‘ why you should want to do this . ’
7 I do n't quite see ’ , said one of them , ‘ how Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) is going to stop these humans .
8 ‘ You once said something about Elise 's frame of mind , and I did n't quite see what you were implying .
9 They 're all gon na go to London and campaign about something , we did n't quite see what it was .
10 Erm by the city in the city institutions of London he 's seen as quite a a robust character but they do n't quite see eye to eye on the issues of the company .
11 He is ‘ a gentleman with a rather perplexed expression of face , and with very grey hair disordered on his head , as if he did n't quite see his way to putting anything straight ’ , but kind and honest .
12 Ceauşescu must have amused his colleagues with his remarks ‘ strongly in favour of the acceptance of free will ’ and his thought that ‘ the withering away of the State would be very welcome though he did n't quite see the withering away of the [ Communist ] Party ! ’
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