Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] n't quite [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Telecom has n't quite learnt the alphabet . |
| 2 | Maggie did n't quite know what to say and he nodded again . |
| 3 | Somehow a little business in Deptford did n't quite match up with his own ideas of McCloy 's origins . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Lillian Gish , Bette Davis and Ann Sothern do n't quite gel together in The Whales Of August ( U Vestron 23 Oct ) . |
| 8 | Owen did n't quite understand this and would have asked more but the two men ducked into the next house . |
| 9 | But Enloe does n't quite deliver . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Peggy did n't quite see how when she could n't even say what the thief looked like . |
| 12 | The Disney has n't quite worked this side of the Atlantic . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Masklin had n't quite trusted any of it . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Even the other two guests laugh — a woman called Pattie whose husband has just left her , and a man whose name Howard does n't quite catch . |
| 17 | There is always a man from just down the road , or the basement flat , or the office , whose name Howard does n't quite catch , and who was up at Cambridge just after all the rest of them . |
| 18 | Last week , Jarman had n't quite decided whether they were to talk to the audience or simply sleep through the exhibition 's four-day run — ‘ although they 'll be allowed to get up for a pee and lunch , ’ he added generously . |