Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [not/n't] quite [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world of fashion and advertising ( from which Victoria has not quite made her escape — she is like someone with one boot stuck deep in the mud , unable to move either way ) now uses places like that as themes for new looks or as inspiration for ‘ lifestyles ’ . |
| 2 | One feels that Stott has not quite entered Ravel 's world of here , particularly as he told the pianist Marguerite Long that the tempo throughout should be the same and even used the word ‘ métronomique ’ ( Au piano avec Maurice Ravel ; Paris : 1971 ) . |
| 3 | British Telecom has n't quite learnt the alphabet . |
| 4 | Maggie did n't quite know what to say and he nodded again . |
| 5 | Somehow a little business in Deptford did n't quite match up with his own ideas of McCloy 's origins . |
| 6 | Bourne did not quite know what to make of these tender morsels of nostalgic recollection but , believing them to be some sort of test , he held his peace , making no comment . |
| 7 | Colin Stephens did not quite convince that he was the Messiah in waiting at flyhalf although his coolly taken first-half drop goal showed that he can perform under pressure . |
| 8 | England did n't quite make it in the Rugby World Cup but we did manage to fight rival bids from the likes of Sweden , Austria and Canada to host the prestigious Hair Olympics '94 . |
| 9 | Psychologically Bury does n't quite produce the adrenalin rush one expects at London and you do n't have the crowds to pander to . |
| 10 | Marshall does n't quite know what to do with Geena Davis ' study in female renunciation as star player Dottie , a woman who gives up baseball to be a good wife . |
| 11 | Not so long since I was in here myself , but I never dreamed Willis had not quite known what to bring , so he 'd decided on a packet of Whiffs . |
| 12 | Billy Egan and Terry Place had not quite risen to their ranks , although Egan at least had aspired to . |
| 13 | Robert had not quite mastered the Islamic calendar . |
| 14 | Lillian Gish , Bette Davis and Ann Sothern do n't quite gel together in The Whales Of August ( U Vestron 23 Oct ) . |
| 15 | Owen did n't quite understand this and would have asked more but the two men ducked into the next house . |
| 16 | For some reason that Jinny did not quite understand , it was the last straw . |
| 17 | But Enloe does n't quite deliver . |
| 18 | McAllister did not quite know how to answer him , and said slowly , ‘ I suppose that at some time or other we all sell ourselves for something . ’ |
| 19 | Pocket Book 's big summer read is from a promotable young actress , Lucinda Edmonds , with Lovers and Players ; Marsha Hunt does n't quite give us another Joy in her new one , Free ( Penguin ) , but her fans wo n't know that until they 've bought it . |
| 20 | But , for reasons John Bradley does not quite make clear , Moscow also gambles on a wider war by invading West Germany . |
| 21 | Cleopatra is one of the supreme creations in any opera , and if Barbara Schlick does not quite capture the full measure of the role , her singing is lovely throughout ; she is particularly touching at Cleopatra 's more vulnerable moments . |
| 22 | Despite Hojjatoleslam Rafsanjani 's assurances that the object of Karbala No 5 was not Basrah , Iran had not quite abandoned all hope of taking it and made another attempt in April , again approaching by way of Fish Lake and claiming numerous Iraqi losses . |
| 23 | Jack reckoned he was known amongst his male friends of that era as the Great Seducer — his own words — but friend-for-life Robert Towne did not quite remember it that way . |
| 24 | Peggy did n't quite see how when she could n't even say what the thief looked like . |
| 25 | The Disney has n't quite worked this side of the Atlantic . |
| 26 | I liked Chapman , and even saw the odd game where he played the ball well on the ground , but he and Cantona did n't quite blend . |
| 27 | Masklin had n't quite trusted any of it . |
| 28 | The beebop era was just fading , Presley had not quite arrived and the advance guard of popular Fifties music that the kids in Neptune listened to were Johnnie Ray , Ray Charles and Chuck Berry . |
| 29 | Patricia Hodge does not quite evoke the mixture of clown and vamp that list suggests . |
| 30 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |