Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] not quite [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the furniture in it hung from the ceiling by long mouldy ropes and did not quite touch the ground . |
| 2 | The fact that he 's not pin-up material like Bolton and does not quite have the same vocal dexterity as either Bolton or Richie probably has a significant bearing on his lack of success in Europe . |
| 3 | Modern F&B managers would delight at the instructions to waitresses to ‘ only half fill the Cups with Coffee ( unless asked to fill them up ) and add Boiled Milk but do not quite fill the Cups ’ , or , for dinner , ‘ Begin at Right end of each Division and with a Bill of Fare held in front of each Person , at each course , ask , naming the article , what they will have . ’ |
| 4 | These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days . |
| 5 | Start by increasing power until the model becomes very light on the floats but does not quite leave the ground . |