Example sentences of "i [vb mod] not [verb] exactly " in BNC.
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1 | But this time I knew I could use it , even if I could n't think exactly how . |
2 | I could n't hear exactly what he said , but I knew from Terry 's tone that they were taking the piss out of me . ’ |
3 | I could not see exactly what was in them but it was more than curiosity . |
4 | I think it was about this time ( I ca n't tell exactly because my diary makes no reference at any point to the practice ) that I discovered purging . |
5 | " You know , there 's something queer about the warren this evening , although I ca n't tell exactly what it is . |
6 | I ca n't tell exactly where and when the original plans became perverted . |
7 | The narrator says , ‘ I was there , I felt it , but I ca n't describe exactly what it was , ’ and everyone draws closer , fascinated . |
8 | ‘ I ca n't remember exactly . |
9 | I ca n't remember exactly when it was , but I know Oliver was tiny and you 'd been ill . ’ |
10 | I ca n't remember exactly what it was but there was I 've got a very strong memory of |
11 | Er they supported me and canvassed for me when I was putting up , but I ca n't see them going , whereas I can remember the erm the when I was a child going to the , we used to have a fete and it was a politically , I ca n't remember exactly what it would be called , but I know mother and the Guild were always there making the tea and got a stall and they were always in the forefront and they 'd always got their rosettes on . |
12 | I ca n't remember exactly who lived on the right hand side , I 've forgotten but th I know the Chief Clerk lived just a little way down , you see , er |
13 | There was a potential benefit and I ca n't remember exactly |
14 | I ca n't remember exactly when in the sequence it first began to dawn on me that an evolved resemblance to something like an insect was possible . |
15 | I know it 's just laid down as as sheet as to what you 're supposed to put down and all sorts but I ca n't remember exactly how detailed it 's got ta be . |
16 | A lot of work done in the fifties by a chap called and perhaps I think is was a later work based on the early work of , I ca n't remember exactly . |
17 | I ca n't remember exactly what happened . |
18 | Whenever I could afford it you know , but erm , there was n't so much money in those days I ca n't remember exactly how much we , we used to get in for coppers you know . |
19 | No I ca n't remember exactly what month . |
20 | that was something like eighty pounds , I ca n't remember exactly |
21 | I ca n't say exactly , but it is expensive and difficult to make a platform for both . |
22 | The truss rod cover I do n't like particularly ; I ca n't say exactly why , but it just looks alien to the rest of the headstock and does n't fit too well on this example , either . |
23 | ‘ I ca n't say exactly . |
24 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
25 | Well no because I c I ca n't say exactly how 's applying their product . |
26 | ‘ I quite like that one , chief But I ca n't see exactly where it 's leading to . ’ |
27 | That particular single matter was not pursued by the ombudsman an and that therefore means that erm it is n't something that er he felt was a question of maladministration but I did want just to emphasise that this particular point , because in the more er i in the recent report to the Policy Resources Committee on ombudsman complaints , the number , and I ca n't recall exactly what the number was , but the number included in that report relating to planning matters was certainly higher than one , I think there were about half a dozen and what I wanted to take the opportunity of explaining was the , the majority of those all but the one that I 've now referred to , er where in fact relating to district matter planning applications and not to the County Council . |
28 | He did but once again I I ca n't recall exactly what was said . |
29 | I ca n't recall when , when you say guarding , I ca n't recall exactly what the officers were doing but that would have been erm one of P C or P C or both , I do n't really know who was erm sorting that side of it out . |
30 | I can not remember exactly . |