Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] quite [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Eddie gets the brush off from his new female boss ( the very wonderful Robin Givens ) , director Reggie Hudlin cues up comic reversals ( she stands him up , drops in for a quick fuck , he bleats about commitment ) , which may not quite reflect the complexity of modern sex wars ( no mention of Aids here ) but are still funny . |
| 2 | Well that will seem to me to be a bit more but obviously it 's up to you but it may not quite work out as neatly as erm but you may well like to think about the role of women as perceived , the way they treat men and relationships . |
| 3 | In any case , with the dismissal of the ecologist Jose Lutzenberger as Minister of Environment just before the summit and with the hesitations of George Bush over the electoral advantage to him of appearing here , it seems that the Earth Summit may not quite turn out to be the intended PR success for the western approach to planetary salvation . |
| 4 | Sudesh Dhaniram may not quite fill that role but , in the spirit of this month 's column , is possibly the name for the future . |
| 5 | You 've got those insurance policies , they 're coming good soon , you 're going to spend them on your world cruise I know , but you might not quite make the world cruise . |
| 6 | We thought he might not quite make it in time . |
| 7 | She 'll not quite learn |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Both eliminated boats , however , could not quite match the quiet efficicency of the way New Zealand and Il Moro de Venezia , of Italy , progressed through the Louis Vuitton semi-finals . |
| 10 | In the morning , his friendship with the Mason was still as strong and his hatred towards Gabriel just as hot — but he could not quite recollect the reason . |
| 11 | There was a momentary reaction at the back of his eyes , though she could not quite manage to interpret it . |
| 12 | She longed to ask him more about Paul Gray but could not quite frame the question she wanted to ask . |
| 13 | For a moment he could not quite think why he was trying to poison Elinor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Graham Taylor 's battling heroes could not quite hold on for a win that would have allowed the beleaguered England manager to say ‘ Nuts ’ to his critics . |
| 16 | Colonel Fergusson , who could not quite bear to inform his daughter that the human family sprang from the same impulse which animated a beetle striking its head against the walls of its box , replied that in his view the Fergussons were a happy accident . |
| 17 | He called to me again and though I could not quite make out his words , I could see him gesturing for me to join him . |
| 18 | He was watching her closely , and she could not quite make out the expression in his eyes . |
| 19 | Thought of Miles and Miranda together at rehearsal came into her mind , and that made her feel , she could not quite analyse how they made her feel . |
| 20 | She , too , could be elusive , though she could not quite disguise the smile in her eyes as she said it . |
| 21 | But , in spite of the genuine excitement that possessed her , she could not quite banish from her mind a picture of that greetings card , signed ‘ From your dearest Nina ’ , that stood propped in one corner of Vass 's desk . |
| 22 | He was certain that Scarlet would never behave so irrationally but could not quite rid himself of the image of the breakfast table . |
| 23 | I could not quite remember their identities , but were those currently in statu pupillare to be assembled in a décontractée atmosphere — rather like , say , a police line-up — I felt sure that the whole matter could be discussed as an appendix to their weekly class ‘ Britain in the 1980s ’ . |
| 24 | I knew Jesus was related to John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary , but could not quite remember how . |
| 25 | Yet Shiona could not quite drive his warning from her mind and the look of cold dislike that had accompanied it . |
| 26 | She was like a figure in a dream that he could not quite recall . |
| 27 | He also remembered that he had a secret , though , at that moment , he could not quite recall what it was . |
| 28 | Henry could not quite work out why , since her pleasantness was not always followed by a request for money or some other favour ; perhaps she was remembering something he had quite forgotten , an incident during their courtship perhaps ( they must have had a courtship ) or a Henry , now lost to Henry himself , who could have inspired feelings such as pleasure . |
| 29 | It was absurd , but still she could not quite suppress the sisterly instinct to help him . |
| 30 | He drew an irritating line between one thing and another that my father could not quite forbid . |