Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] quite [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not quite feel ready to hear about the nights . |
| 2 | She did not quite admit that was why she wore her best summer suit and indeed had it rush cleaned for the event . |
| 3 | She told me that she did not quite know where to begin . |
| 4 | Dorothea supposed that change must affect even such trivialities as the uniform of waitresses , although she did not quite see why , and it was a note of uncertainty in an otherwise happy day . |
| 5 | She did not quite hate him , but did not wish to marry him , even to remain respectable . |
| 6 | She did not quite like the way he kept calling her by her name ; there was a humorous inflection on the three liquid syllables as though he found the name funny . |
| 7 | Topaz found herself praying to a God to whom she did n't quite believe that Andrew would agree and stay with her for a while . |
| 8 | She did n't quite catch what he muttered under his breath , and , deciding it would be exceedingly foolish to ask him to repeat it , fled back to the restaurant . |
| 9 | She did n't quite get my drift did she ? |
| 10 | by the side of my head and she landed up , sort of like this on the floor but sh , apparently she did n't quite get that right ! |
| 11 | Ms d'Harnoncourt , the only woman in the running , failed to make the short list because , according to Dr Murphy , ‘ She did n't quite have the administrative skills needed for our museum ’ . |
| 12 | Although she did n't quite know exactly what that entailed , he looked so depressed she murmured words of sympathy while her heart went on singing inside . |
| 13 | She did n't quite know why , but she did n't . |
| 14 | She did n't quite know what to bring out . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , seeing the keen glint in his eye and the impatient energy to get the thing settled that he was betraying , she did n't quite know how to turn him down . |
| 16 | After those years of hard work , she did n't quite know how to be social and high-spirited and careless of the future like so many other girls of her own age . |
| 17 | She was taking eight months ' leave without pay from Coronation , but in the back of her mind was the odd feeling that she would n't be going back , and she did n't quite know what it meant . |
| 18 | It did look fabulous , Belinda decided firmly , even though she did n't quite know if that person in the mirror was herself or a professional model . |
| 19 | But it was a tersely worded compliment , and as he turned to take an olive from the tray of hors-d'oeuvres already laid out on a side-table , her stabbing disappointment told Belinda that he was the person she had really dressed up for today , though what she wanted to prove to him she did n't quite know . |
| 20 | He 'd also said Leo was a tycoon , only she did n't quite know how to ask him about that . |
| 21 | How exactly , she did n't quite know . |
| 22 | She had n't told John about the colour scheme because she did n't quite know what he would say . |
| 23 | She does not quite look at him . |
| 24 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 25 | That 's why she is a bit nervous ; she would like to be alone with him , without Paul , and she does n't quite know how to arrange it . |
| 26 | But it 's mainly to erm present it to this committee , the trial balance sheet , She does n't quite know how to do that and altogether she feels she just wants she says , how she 's doing it now , at least she wants to check out with somebody , is she doing it how they would do it . |
| 27 | It seems she does n't quite have the stomach to be an assassin . ’ |