Example sentences of "[adv] quite see " in BNC.
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| 1 | She spun round , but she could not quite see him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They do not expect him to lose but can not quite see how he is going to win . |
| 4 | Falstaff as ‘ a masculine decayed cornucopious form of the love goddess ’ is amusing as a paradox , though how the boar can be both Mars and Persephone I do not quite see . |
| 5 | Tom Tremayne had seen to that and Liza , irresponsible and hedonistic as she was , could not quite see herself leaving Harriet holding the baby while she went off to undertake some kind of training . |
| 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 | In 1951 ‘ he was so excited that all he could say was ‘ It 's a desperately close race — I ca n't quite see from here who is ahead — it 's either Oxford or Cambridge ’ . |
| 8 | An officer on an accompanying ship did n't quite see it that way . |
| 9 | And if you still ca n't quite see him , and this is not your ideal Boy at all , then I 'm sorry . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't quite see how , Judy . ’ |
| 11 | Peggy did n't quite see how when she could n't even say what the thief looked like . |
| 12 | He is ‘ a gentleman with a rather perplexed expression of face , and with very grey hair disordered on his head , as if he did n't quite see his way to putting anything straight ’ , but kind and honest . |
| 13 | The lack of contouring presents no real disadvantage , though the lack of a ribcage cutaway means that the bass tilts slightly forward from the top , so you ca n't quite see where you are on the fretboard for occasional quick reference . |
| 14 | Ceauşescu must have amused his colleagues with his remarks ‘ strongly in favour of the acceptance of free will ’ and his thought that ‘ the withering away of the State would be very welcome though he did n't quite see the withering away of the [ Communist ] Party ! ’ |
| 15 | Presently , he said , ‘ If it 's going to help , by all means interview Edna , but I do n't quite see how raking up the past , digging into something which might be better left alone , is going to get Celia over this illness , turn her into a normal woman again . ’ |
| 16 | At the peak , you ca n't quite see Vivoli 's but it is on the right , near the Verdi Theatre . |
| 17 | Pushing it back on to the desk without taking her eyes from it , she said , ‘ I do n't quite see . |
| 18 | I 've been thinking that you ought to get away from here for a bit , but I do n't quite see how I could leave the hospital just now . |
| 19 | Erm by the city in the city institutions of London he 's seen as quite a a robust character but they do n't quite see eye to eye on the issues of the company . |
| 20 | With talk of sweetbreads and liver and fillet she captivated him — I could n't quite see how she did it . |
| 21 | ’ Ca n't quite see it , ’ I mumbled . |
| 22 | And why not credit cards ? — no , he could n't quite see American Express listing her . |
| 23 | Somehow he could n't quite see himself doing this . |
| 24 | But I ca n't quite see how to deal with it yet . |
| 25 | Even though it was beginning to recede in her memory , Folly still could n't quite see what she had gone through as a joke . |
| 26 | ‘ You once said something about Elise 's frame of mind , and I did n't quite see what you were implying . |
| 27 | I do n't quite see the joke , but then , I 'm busy sulking . |
| 28 | Because of the angle of the mirror , I ca n't quite see them , but I can hear their voices as they approach . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't quite see , ’ she said slowly , ‘ why you should want to do this . ’ |
| 30 | Dorcas could n't quite see how frogs had got involved . |