Example sentences of "[vb past] not quite [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not quite admit that was why she wore her best summer suit and indeed had it rush cleaned for the event . |
| 2 | Even in the ‘ poll-tax ’ dominated months of 1990 we did not quite reach that point . |
| 3 | Even nineteenth-century industrialists at their worst did not quite approach this . |
| 4 | I did n't do this I d I did n't quite finish this one cos we only had erm one and a half hour to do the two-hour paper like . |
| 5 | Cos I did n't quite have enough . |
| 6 | I d did n't quite understand that . |
| 7 | Owen did n't quite understand this and would have asked more but the two men ducked into the next house . |
| 8 | Erm moving around er feet movement I did n't quite master that yesterday but it it 's something that er I know that will come with time and er it 'll it 'll all come together . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't quite say that , no . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't quite say that . |
| 11 | Well , we did n't quite say that , but we do n't really want to . |
| 12 | What was that Jane , I did n't quite pick that up . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had n't quite understood this , and hastened to assure me , " You not a whore ! |
| 15 | She still had n't quite lost that tone of bitterness when talking about Martin . |
| 16 | ‘ We had n't quite reached that point , ’ says Mr Johnson , ‘ but we could see it on the horizon . ’ |
| 17 | Masklin had n't quite trusted any of it . |