Example sentences of "[verb] never quite [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it succeeds , it could turn the personal computer business upside down , by delivering what the PC always promised but has never quite achieved : the ability to work where and how you please , no matter what computer you are using or how limited your knowledge . |
| 2 | The answer is that Morrissey has never quite achieved ten such desirable plaudits , even with his Smiths output chucked in . |
| 3 | Turkey is a market that has never quite fulfilled its potential — according to Nelson 's Paul Berry , ‘ Turkey has been regarded as the next Greece for more than 10 years ’ . |
| 4 | Reading between the lines , I suspect that Rodney has never quite forgiven either of them . ’ |
| 5 | To this day the party has never quite healed the deep wounds left by what remains probably its most traumatic internal crisis . |
| 6 | He thinks that , unlike its competitors , British industry has never quite understood the nature , or the importance , of research and development . |
| 7 | The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation . |
| 8 | ‘ Colonel Fagg has never quite come to terms with the end of the Second World War , I 'm afraid , Elsa . |
| 9 | Despite the electricity generated on parts of ‘ The Moneyspyder ’ and to some extend on ‘ Wait A Minute ’ ( particularly the hit-that-never was , ‘ Theme From Starsky and Hutch ’ ) , James has never quite harnessed the fury of his old band to his all-consuming love of jazz . |
| 10 | Despite the electricity generated on parts of ‘ The Moneyspyder ’ and to some extend on ‘ Wait A Minute ’ ( particularly the hit-that-never was , ‘ Theme From Starsky and Hutch ’ ) , James has never quite harnessed the fury of his old band to his all-consuming love of jazz . |
| 11 | Yet the promised resurrection of the $200 billion-plus market has never quite happened . |
| 12 | On his death-bed , George V visited a royal curse upon the town with his famous final utterance ‘ Bugger Bognor ! ’ , from which the place has never quite recovered . |
| 13 | Even after deciding to put public service behind him and concentrate on the private sector , he has never quite seemed able to escape involvement with government . |
| 14 | But somehow it stuck to her , a battered meaningless fragment of those far-off days , something that until now she 'd never quite managed to lose . |
| 15 | I had done the score for Warren for Reds and I 'd never quite finished it , so I always felt I owed him one . ’ |
| 16 | But we 've never quite had to do that . |
| 17 | Six years — six years in which I 've never quite succeeded in getting you out of my mind . ’ |
| 18 | We 've never quite got on to first name terms , Emily and I. Even in our respective retirements . |
| 19 | It was rather as if the author — for all the breadth of his experience which he was constantly insisting upon — had never quite grown up . |
| 20 | Henry VI , still less than a year old , already king of England , now assumed the crown of France , a position which his father had never quite achieved . |
| 21 | Through years of attempting to lick herself clean , for she had never quite lost her self-respect , Stripey had become as thickly coated with mud inside as out . |
| 22 | The first seven frames had never quite pointed to such a convincing victory but once Hendry had forged clear at 6-3 , the writing was on the wall for his Bangkok challenger . |
| 23 | I had entered fully into the shared joys of Christian experience , but I had never quite gained the satisfaction that other Christians seemed to have . |
| 24 | The principles here are clear , fully Catholic and yet in terms of pre-conciliar Roman theory revolutionary ( not so revolutionary in practice : some sacramental sharing had always continued in parts of the East where ecclesiastical reality had never quite caught up with the theory of ultramontanism ) . |
| 25 | Perhaps she had never quite recovered from the efforts to please she had made then . |
| 26 | She had known the truth for some time by then more or less , and the legal position , but had never quite managed to have it out with her mother . |
| 27 | Even in medical school it had inhibited her to the point where she had even had serious doubts about whether she would be able to continue her studies , simply because , unlike many of her senior colleagues , she had never quite managed to acquire the kind of detachment that was so necessary sometimes to become a doctor . |
| 28 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 29 | I have never quite understood why " Chesh " as we called him at the time , was the only person I selected for training with the Force that my Master vetoed ; my Master also vetoed the selection of Leonard to command No 35 Squadron in the early days of the Pathfinder Force and I was never able to establish why . |
| 30 | Article 10(1) of the European Convention sets out the basic principle which the makers of common and statute law in Britain have never quite mustered the courage to adopt : " Everyone has the right to freedom of expression . |