Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] quite [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They form a V-shaped cross-section that does not quite meet at its apex . |
| 2 | She does not quite look at him . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , it does n't quite double as an arm rest . |
| 4 | Now this is n not quite accurate , because it does n't quite go into it six times . |
| 5 | But it does n't quite go like that . |
| 6 | Yet , even here , there is a puzzle , a strange , unplaceable something which does n't quite fit with that account of the gradual driving out of the reader and the suggestion of a steady shift towards the rare and the difficult , for I would guess that anyone not put off in advance by suspicion or hearsay , anyone that is who has got as far as dipping into Ulysses , say , will have come hard up against things that are startlingly , even discomfortingly , recognisable . |
| 7 | The Japanese hi-fi 's clapped out , the VW should have been replaced 18 months ago , and that new Miele dishwasher does n't quite fit alongside the Swedish fridge . |
| 8 | If you 'll forgive me saying so , it does n't quite seem like your kind of club . ’ |