Example sentences of "could [adv] quite [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The History Eighth , which had assimilated G. K. Chesterton and E. C. Bentley immediately before Thomas 's short stay there , could not quite swallow him , nor he them . |
| 2 | NEEDING four points from the six singles to beat Scotland on the opening day of the Womens Home Internationals at Hermitage Ireland could not quite bring it off and lost in the end by 5–4 . |
| 3 | Even the sight of their own front garden could not quite depress her . |
| 4 | Some thought , some fragment of memory was tugging at him but he could not quite catch it , as so often these days . |
| 5 | She spun round , but she could not quite see him . |
| 6 | The crows attacked and her movements were strangely slow and disorientated as if she could not quite see them , or make her wings and talons move as she intended . |
| 7 | It was the Winnipeg agent who had to go among them arguing ( he was Scotch too , and they could not quite understand it ) on the impropriety of dislocating the company 's traffic . |
| 8 | She was familiar but he could n't quite place her . |
| 9 | For ages Bernie maintained he already knew her from somewhere but could n't quite place it . |
| 10 | He could n't quite place it . |
| 11 | United found it easy enough to open Wolves up , but they could n't quite finish them off . |
| 12 | Her throat tightened on the word , as if even now she could n't quite admit it ; and she wondered how many other times she 'd made herself not hear . |
| 13 | It evoked some distant memory but he could n't quite pin it down . |
| 14 | Their tired legs could n't quite carry them , though , to their first win on Tyneside since the opening day of the 1949–50 season . |
| 15 | Could n't quite control it . |
| 16 | But she could n't quite manage it : she remained a nice girl , just this side of safety . |
| 17 | Pascoe tried to stop himself stiffening to a seated attention position and could n't quite manage it . |
| 18 | Erm , they have n't had them in Suffolk , we 've had one or two try to join and one did reasonably well , but right at the end of , of the , of one of the tests , the strength tests , she failed , she could n't quite manage it erm |
| 19 | Sorry , I could n't quite manage it that time |
| 20 | She tried to move away , disturbed by the realisation that her feelings towards him had undergone a subtle change even though she could n't quite define it . |
| 21 | She could n't quite believe she was taking the first few tentative steps back towards her marriage . |
| 22 | He could n't quite believe he had found himself such a beautiful animal . |
| 23 | It was as if she could n't quite believe he was really there . |
| 24 | He was very bent over and was rubbing his eyes as if he could n't quite believe it . |
| 25 | No wonder I could n't quite believe it when we went into the top entrance of OFD II and it opened into wide open spaces where it was easy to walk at full height . |
| 26 | She could n't quite believe it . |
| 27 | She still could n't quite believe it was Eleanor who had sent her that poisonous letter , Eleanor who had destroyed her clothes and personal belongings . |
| 28 | He still could n't quite believe it did n't work with her . |
| 29 | Betty could n't quite believe it all . |
| 30 | The image was still nebulous , she could n't quite see it , though the cottage helped . |