Example sentences of "they did n't quite [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't quite tell us that we 'd never had it so good , but the impression they gave was that if we trusted Honest John and Uncle Norman to look after the nation 's piggy bank , all would be well . |
| 2 | Well Richard , we all know what they did n't quite mix . |
| 3 | Except they did n't quite say non , one word . |
| 4 | They were all in a meeting , and they did n't quite know how to deal with me — I was the first celebrity ever to have gone . |
| 5 | And er they said they wanted a nurse , this child had been very sick and they did n't quite know what was wrong with him . |
| 6 | It went down great , they enjoyed it , although they did n't quite know what to think , because we were both rockabilly . ’ |
| 7 | Rose and Mary were for once showing a united front and refused to leave the kitchen because they did n't quite like the way the young women from the town who had come to be waitresses were poking and prying into their cupboards with their noses in the air . |
| 8 | And finally gives charts the kind of breathing space they did n't quite have before . |