Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] n't quite [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow though , The Fall of Yugoslavia comes across as a series of fragments that do n't quite make a whole , and any attempts to go beyond the yawn-capacity of school history books are sadly flawed . |
| 2 | The link , he suggested , was the ‘ intuitive poster art , words to songs that are not quite understandable , superimpositions in films that do n't quite focus into a subject ’ , all of which , he contended optimistically , ‘ move us towards the new era ’ . |
| 3 | To the places that had n't quite worked out the way the designers had planned , the places where kids drift in a city , where they make up their own version of the city . |
| 4 | These planets are big enough to be regarded as , in essence , stars that did n't quite make it . |
| 5 | Made some more bets that did n't quite work out , but I could still see the pattern — a good one , too . |
| 6 | You know , very often you hear the people that are actually talking about the things they 've done are normally the ones that have n't quite got there . |