Example sentences of "n't quite know what " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't quite know what you want . ’ |
| 2 | US investors , it says , do n't quite know what to make of the outbreak of peace . |
| 3 | But Broderick looks almost depressed by the tedium of it all , so bored he does n't quite know what to do with himself . |
| 4 | His head was whirling with excitement and he did n't quite know what to say . |
| 5 | I do n't quite know what it means . |
| 6 | ( Not , by the way , that I have my heart particularly set on a boy but , having grown up with only brothers , I do n't quite know what the female clichés look like . ) |
| 7 | Marshall does n't quite know what to do with Geena Davis ' study in female renunciation as star player Dottie , a woman who gives up baseball to be a good wife . |
| 8 | I have n't made up my mind just yet , indeed , I do n't quite know what to do . |
| 9 | She did n't quite know what to bring out . |
| 10 | A bewildered staff did n't quite know what to do next as they were completely ignorant of the ongoing wrangle between Carter and the Stones over ‘ Ruby Tuesday ’ which , it seems , still has n't been sorted out . |
| 11 | I do n't quite know what it is , but it 's more than looks . |
| 12 | It 's , I , I mean these , these , the work with , with the original action network seems to , seems to come and go , you 've got a very large amount at one point and then nothing for sometime , it just depends er , I think which country they 're targeting and how much there is , because we had quite a lot on Malawi did n't we during the early part on last year not much on South Africa recently , as if they do n't quite know what to do , you know with the situation there it 's not quite er clarified . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't quite know what you mean by even at my age . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't quite know what I did to deserve this radical revision in status . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't quite know what that 's supposed to mean , ’ he said severely , ‘ but sometimes I think you pull rank on me a bit , Cassandra . |
| 16 | I do n't quite know what I 'm going to do about it . ’ |
| 17 | And er they said they wanted a nurse , this child had been very sick and they did n't quite know what was wrong with him . |
| 18 | She was taking eight months ' leave without pay from Coronation , but in the back of her mind was the odd feeling that she would n't be going back , and she did n't quite know what it meant . |
| 19 | I did n't quite know what to make of this dismal phrase immediately . |
| 20 | We have oil in the North Sea which we are just wasting , we have gas which we get from the North Sea which we do n't quite know what to do with it . |
| 21 | Maggie did n't quite know what to say and he nodded again . |
| 22 | I do n't quite know what this is all about but I 'm sure I 've never seen either of you two gentlemen … ’ |
| 23 | I do n't quite know what 's , what happened , because I remember very well amending these details the last time it came to policy and resources , and that was agreed , because the changes you have made use the working , wording of the Thamesdown scheme , it seems to me far better , erm , as you have moved it , because er , very many people who are elderly , who are sixty-nine years or more or less do n't need any supervision at all . |
| 24 | Th there is erm a study going on to do with something called the British National Corpus which I do n't quite know what that 's about but they they want er samples of the sort of things that lecturers do in lecture theatres . |
| 25 | She had n't told John about the colour scheme because she did n't quite know what he would say . |
| 26 | It went down great , they enjoyed it , although they did n't quite know what to think , because we were both rockabilly . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't quite know what the idea of the visit was , but the French Canadians had a similar one — anyway , everyone sold gold bricks to one another like mad . |
| 28 | I do n't quite know what he does sometimes |
| 29 | Well tha no that was n't padded that was for do n't quite know what they wanted to do with that erm but there was erm a face that was built up with three different sizes of felt , small , next size , next size up , not not much bigger each time , then you had a piece of calico a little bit bigger , you did a running thread all round the outside and pulled it so that it , lapped over the felt which you had stitched down first . |
| 30 | I think we 'll just have a nice quiet day today erm there 's a little bit of a snag because I do n't quite know what we 're going to do about all these children that like to go to the library . |