Example sentences of "not quite [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt up the arm , discovering the small person not quite dragging away from him , a tight bundle clutched in its left arm . |
| 2 | She wore sensible walking gear but an air of not quite belonging . |
| 3 | Gas should increase its penetration of domestic markets though not quite achieving the level of consumption enjoyed in 1979 . |
| 4 | No , sorry , not quite reading glasses in the normal sense — pince-nez . |
| 5 | From this room she could see out through a wide window into a dense stand of woodland , which seemed to crowd together , not quite hiding a track leading to a small cave . |
| 6 | you 're not quite expecting . |
| 7 | As usual Sally-Anne was not quite telling the truth . |
| 8 | we 're not quite getting this clear it 's an excellent idea . |
| 9 | By eschewing such girls he avoided a lot of foreign in-laws and chatter in disparate tongues , and the misunderstandings that are inevitably worsened by not quite speaking the same language . |
| 10 | We have in fact such an enterprise in West Sussex operating with 1,000 birds and still not quite producing enough eggs . |
| 11 | She gave him a smile that showed she was still a little insecure , still not quite believing that Ace loved her . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've cut me , ’ he said , as if not quite believing it . |
| 13 | I thought — Oh , I was confused , I suppose , not quite believing it was possible to fall in love so swiftly . |
| 14 | She was still not quite believing any of it when within half an hour her car was safely deposited at a garage . |
| 15 | Instead , she will let her feelings be known by ( a ) putting your best white shirt in the wash with a leaky indigo sweater , or ( b ) almost but not quite removing baby puke from the sitting-room carpet . |
| 16 | ‘ Where do we sit ? ’ she asked , not quite looking at me , and I said , ‘ Anywhere , madam . |
| 17 | Well can I say I , my interpretation of it , we 're not quite looking at the same sort of horse . |
| 18 | ‘ OK , ’ she answered , not quite looking at him . |
| 19 | When he came back he sat beside the litter of his meal on the table among the three children not quite knowing what to do with himself . |
| 20 | This doubt of not quite knowing so worried me that I sometimes approached my visualization as if addressing a public meeting . |
| 21 | Emily asked awkwardly , not quite knowing what to say . |
| 22 | Not quite knowing what to expect other than that she wanted a new job , Jean turned up for work promptly on a cold , wet , Monday morning but found no one to let her in . |
| 23 | For a moment she hesitated , not quite knowing what to do , then she nodded to herself and began to move quicker . |
| 24 | Ian edged into the room as though not quite knowing what to expect . |
| 25 | Piers walked off to help her , and Alyssia remained where she was , listening to their friendly banter , not quite knowing what to do with herself . |
| 26 | Ianthe murmured , not quite knowing what to say . |
| 27 | She stood in the middle of the room with a vase of daffodils in her hand , not quite knowing what to do . |
| 28 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |
| 29 | For a while he simply looked , tracing the subtle curves of her body , his fingers not quite touching the surface of her flesh . |
| 30 | Every time it moved it froze , one paw outstretched , not quite touching the ground . |