Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] never quite [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had done the score for Warren for Reds and I 'd never quite finished it , so I always felt I owed him one . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Six years — six years in which I 've never quite succeeded in getting you out of my mind . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps she had never quite recovered from the efforts to please she had made then . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But we 've never quite had to do that . |
| 11 | We 've never quite got on to first name terms , Emily and I. Even in our respective retirements . |
| 12 | We have never quite shaken off its effects . |
| 13 | Even though they may have worked and set up home separately , they have never quite left the role of dependent daughter . |
| 14 | 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 . |