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Example sentences for "quite know"

  • Master Olly has been tumbling into a bog by way of making friends with the mountains, and I don't quite know how I am to let those legs into my dining-room.

  • Becky didn't quite know what to say to this, so she began to call Tiza again.

  • I felt an ecstasy in being in my native land once more; and one sunny morning I took up a pen and wrote her that letter, but why to HER, I don't quite know.

  • I--I don't quite know how to answer your question, Aglaya Ivanovna.

  • I don't quite know what to show you," she said, "and will you really be interested in the way we present our illusions?

  • I don't quite know what I want," said the duke.

  • Then Miss Marriott doesn't quite know what we want her for yet?

  • And I half hope he will; I shouldn't quite know how to behave.

  • I should like to work, but I don't quite know what at.

  • I ought to have made you realize that long ago, but I liked you, and, you see, I didn't quite know.

  • I don't quite know, and until to-night it always cheated me.

  • I don't quite know," said the jailer, and the contempt in his voice answered the question.

  • I don't know if the real Public School novel will ever be written: I don't quite know if it can.

  • I don't quite know why, except that Illingworth liked the sound of the name.

  • I've been reading a good many books on school life lately, but they all seem to me to lack something, I don't quite know what it is.

  • If he wants to get into conversation with any one he just does it, whereas, however much I wanted to, I should always hold back through fear, what of I don't quite know.

  • Now I don't quite know if you expected me to talk business on this occasion, but I'm going out early to-morrow, and I fancy your good ladies are as anxious as you are about the welfare of Somasco.

  • I've got thirty men chopping out a new trail one could haul a loaded wagon on, and don't quite know how to pay them.

  • That," he said very slowly, "is what I don't quite know.

  • And do you find it more poetic when you don't quite know what it means?

  • A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves in almost everything that anybody else believes, and he has a very lively sustaining faith in he doesn't quite know what.

  • I don't quite know what a Unitarian is," said Philip.

  • I don't quite know which it is, but I think I could find it.

  • But I never did entertain any one in my life; I don't quite know what it means.

  • I don't quite know how to describe it, but the very appearance of an American woman suggests fitness.

  • There is a tilt about it, something, I don't quite know what, that catches the eye.

  • I don't think I quite know, but I don't wish you to.

  • I don't quite know--fit of some sort, I should say.

  • I don't quite know how we drove this heading with the tools we had, but I can't think of any means of saving it," he said.

  • I don't quite know how I have gathered the courage now.

  • I don't quite know, though I shall probably land in Victoria sooner or later.

  • I don't quite know how we'd have held out if it hadn't been for the money we got from him for running the logs down.

  • Though why you should refer to my engagement as if a hot-water pipe had burst, I don't quite know.

  • Though what exactly you want me to do," protested Michael, "I don't quite know.

  • She don't quite know what we are, sir," Scroggs chuckled.

  • But, you see, I don't quite know you, do I?

  • But there was to be no hurry about the affair, Mrs. Richmond had decided from the first; and I could imagine her bustling that decision about her mind, as a sort of anodyne for she didn't quite know what.

  • And I don't quite know why, as I don't remember ever having made a point of it.

  • To have realised within himself that he, of all the men in the world, was that strangely contemptible thing, I don't quite know why, a bad loser!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another variety; fight them; get home; made public; quite close; quite dead; quite distinct; quite easily; quite enough; quite gone; quite know; quite large; quite like; quite modern; quite otherwise; quite overcome; quite plain; quite ready; quite right; quite satisfied; quite suddenly; quite useless; quite well; quite wrong; temporal goods; trade goods