Example sentences of "[verb] n't quite have " in BNC.
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| 1 | And finally gives charts the kind of breathing space they did n't quite have before . |
| 2 | Ms d'Harnoncourt , the only woman in the running , failed to make the short list because , according to Dr Murphy , ‘ She did n't quite have the administrative skills needed for our museum ’ . |
| 3 | He even wondered if he ought to suggest to Paul Lexington that that sentence was put on a hoarding outside the theatre , but did n't quite have the nerve . |
| 4 | Shaking her head in bemusement , she moved her gaze to the outfit spread out on the bed , and did n't quite have time to screw her face into an expression of approval before Mrs McMahon looked at her . |
| 5 | Cos I did n't quite have enough . |
| 6 | Expanded metal arch kits , once they have been plastered over , present a smooth wall face , and can be wallpapered around fairly easily , but they do n't quite have the character of the moulded fibrous plaster . |
| 7 | For example , they lived very much longer than one would have expected , and Gellmann said well these were strange particles and he invented a new quantum number called a strangeness , and then he assumed that this strangeness quantum number was not quite conserved. erm we have conserved quantum numbers in physics like the charge — you have to conserve the charge , but you do n't quite have to conserve the strangeness . |
| 8 | The idea of Jim Morrison in a pair of black cotton slacks does n't quite have the same ring , does it ? |
| 9 | It seems she does n't quite have the stomach to be an assassin . ’ |