Example sentences of "they 're [not/n't] quite [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vibrant meets the violent and dozens grin at a joke they 're not quite sure they understand . |
| 2 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |
| 3 | And part of the reason why we 're not really out of the recession , is that people are not willing to commit themselves to any further expenditure because they 're not quite sure in six months or twelve months time , as to whether they 're going to have anything in the way of a job . |
| 4 | Inside the great marquee , Mattocks roses from Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire have impressed the judges with their display , winning them a gold medal — they 're not quite sure , but they think it 's the 20th they 've won at the show . |
| 5 | The atmosphere with the actual returnees themselves is one of concern and apprehension I guess , because they 're concerned that they 've been involved in this , this crisis and they 're not quite sure what 's happening , and they are er not really being told by everybody , you know , there 's just too many people to make it very clear where they 're all going and when they 're all going . |
| 6 | cakes they look as if they 're not quite cooked |
| 7 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 8 | ‘ He waves about so that they 're not quite straight , but he is n't the greatest moving horse in the world ’ . |
| 9 | Well I do n't know , but it , it is a long way down , people who do n't know Lord 's , you have to come down from , er and er perhaps they 're not quite ready , but it is there must have taken , I do n't , next time perhaps put the clock on it , but this must be a three minute or three and a half minute . |
| 10 | they 're not quite big enough for putting Matthew 's in separate . |
| 11 | you know more likely to worry about work , more likely to feel that they 're , they 're not quite coping , more likely to feel erm you know that , that somehow everybody else is getting on with it and , and , and , and they ca n't , I mean that 's just , you know , going from what people have told me so |
| 12 | They 're not quite clear about , a bit vague about what it is . |
| 13 | They 're not quite clear at all . |
| 14 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |