Example sentences of "do [not/n't] quite [verb] " 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 | A woman rather shy of men , whose eyes did not quite meet his when he looked at her . |
| 3 | Something about the way I looked did not quite fit the picture they had envisaged . |
| 4 | Somehow , too , because it did not quite fit her and hung gauchely in parallels and was kept with such care , spots of dirt sponged out and the dress frequently brushed and pressed , it made her seem , touchingly , much younger . |
| 5 | And yet , Theodora reflected , the hatchment did not quite fit her memory of what she had seen . |
| 6 | As regards orchestral direction , the troupe did not quite fit accepted categories ; to begin with , there was no continuo player ( spoken dialogue replaced recitative ) . |
| 7 | He was not one of us ; he did not quite fit into the measured compartmentalised minds of the Service at that time . |
| 8 | He had hesitated , then glanced at me with a gravity that did not quite hide the smile behind it . |
| 9 | However , the arrival of the French did not quite coincide with the national uprising of ‘ 98 . |
| 10 | She did not quite feel ready to hear about the nights . |
| 11 | In controls the rate of butyrate metabolism in the ileum was significantly higher than in the ascending colon ( p<0.05 ) , and although the mean rate of glutamine metabolism was also higher in the ileum this did not quite achieve statistical significance ( p=0.06 ) . |
| 12 | Mick Keebles , the World Cup captain , heads the off-campus contingent , which also includes John Jenkins , a centre who briefly returned to rugby union with Waterloo on leaving Leeds Polytechnic , but decided it did not quite match the real thing . |
| 13 | Tug stared into a big kitchen/living-room full of old , heavy furniture that did not quite match . |
| 14 | As with so much of what he envisaged , the reality did not quite match the vision . |
| 15 | Even in the ‘ poll-tax ’ dominated months of 1990 we did not quite reach that point . |
| 16 | Two partitions of heavy wooden panelling did not quite reach the arched ceiling and the other two sides of the room were formed by the walls of the crypt itself . |
| 17 | He was smiling , but the smile did not quite reach his eyes . |
| 18 | The mean ratio of butyrate/glutamine metabolism in the descending colon was greater in controls than in UC , but this did not quite reach significance ( p=0.09 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Now that 's an idea , ’ he agreed slowly , giving her a cold smile that lifted his lips , but did not quite reach his eyes . |
| 20 | Although they did not quite reach the same heights , Ann Welsh ( Liverpool ) and Claire Swift ( Sefton ) maintained a high standard in the under-17 race over the same distance , with the Liverpool girl taking the honours in 4–39.0 against her rival 's 4–40.4 . |
| 21 | He did not quite make the grade and said he was happy to come home after missing all last year . |
| 22 | Beside the King and the Archbishop , the Bishops of Paphos and Limassol , the several abbots , the Knights Hospitaller of the Order and the ecclesiastical officers of the Cathedral , stood a thick , black hairy fellow in a battered conical cap with a veil , below which an assortment of robes vaguely Greek and vaguely Coptic did not quite cover the stained brown habit of a Franciscan friar . |
| 23 | He was dressed in white : white shorts , a white T-shirt which did not quite cover an enormous stomach , and a white floppy hat with a white handkerchief covering the back of his neck . |
| 24 | The room itself would have been enough to efface any human material less striking than Clelia 's mother , and it did indeed more or less totally efface the unobtrusive Martin , who sat quietly dissociated , perched on the edge of a gilt-framed armchair , looking as though he did not quite mean to be there . |
| 25 | Colin Stephens did not quite convince that he was the Messiah in waiting at flyhalf although his coolly taken first-half drop goal showed that he can perform under pressure . |
| 26 | In his move towards the latter , perhaps at that time he did not quite appreciate how influential to himself and others Roger Corman had become in providing the schooling for some of the most important film-makers of the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 27 | The older of the young ones let out a sniggering laugh which developed into a hiccoughy laugh , the younger one hissed out , fuckin' bloody Paki ; a third voice , I could n't tell whose , said something which I did not quite understand but sounded like , and indeed was , National Front . |
| 28 | For some reason that Jinny did not quite understand , it was the last straw . |
| 29 | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary . |
| 30 | 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 . |