Example sentences of "[verb] never quite [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We 've never quite got on to first name terms , Emily and I. Even in our respective retirements . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |