Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] quite [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soldered into one corner of one of the swaying carriages is a solitary , plain , ordinary , short-hair-cutted man clad in a fairly new dark blue suit which does not quite match his black hair edged with grey or his furry , hairy watch strap . |
| 2 | Which does not quite explain the fishermen . |
| 3 | Yet , even here , there is a puzzle , a strange , unplaceable something which does n't quite fit with that account of the gradual driving out of the reader and the suggestion of a steady shift towards the rare and the difficult , for I would guess that anyone not put off in advance by suspicion or hearsay , anyone that is who has got as far as dipping into Ulysses , say , will have come hard up against things that are startlingly , even discomfortingly , recognisable . |
| 4 | She does not quite look at him . |
| 5 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 6 | That 's why she is a bit nervous ; she would like to be alone with him , without Paul , and she does n't quite know how to arrange it . |
| 7 | But it 's mainly to erm present it to this committee , the trial balance sheet , She does n't quite know how to do that and altogether she feels she just wants she says , how she 's doing it now , at least she wants to check out with somebody , is she doing it how they would do it . |
| 8 | It seems she does n't quite have the stomach to be an assassin . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps one does n't quite believe it . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think all that much of humans , ’ said Lydia ; ‘ so when I say one does n't quite look like one I do n't mean it offensively . ’ |
| 11 | Something does nt quite add up here guys . |
| 12 | Something does nt quite add up here guys . |
| 13 | But , in fact , he does not quite say this . |
| 14 | What Aristotle says there is that the demos would like to be a monarchos , an autocrat , he does not quite say that it is . |
| 15 | He does not quite understand why the coats are familiar . |
| 16 | Shostakovich himself declared that he wanted to write a ‘ happy ’ Symphony , but somehow he does not quite seem the natural choice for such a thing . |
| 17 | Although he does not quite dare to say it , he wants the entire ERM to dissolve . |
| 18 | He does not quite know how to ask . |
| 19 | He does n't quite go around in wellies and a woolly hat . |
| 20 | He does n't quite go around in wellies and a woolly hat . |
| 21 | But Broderick looks almost depressed by the tedium of it all , so bored he does n't quite know what to do with himself . |
| 22 | Even a user who starts a search with a specific subject in mind may find that it does not quite match his requirements after all . |
| 23 | On the other hand , it does not quite cover all sporting interests because horse racing ( or indeed camel racing ) is also in there as a sport . |
| 24 | But it does n't quite go like that . |
| 25 | Now this is n not quite accurate , because it does n't quite go into it six times . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , it does n't quite double as an arm rest . |
| 27 | Pervasive though this negative tradition is , it does n't quite answer why it is that in a post-Christian society there should continue to be so much indifference to the claims of animals . |
| 28 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 29 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 30 | Robert ( 4.1 ) made his and the teacher said , ‘ It does n't quite fit , does it ? ’ |