Example sentences of "did not quite [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something about the way I looked did not quite fit the picture they had envisaged . |
| 2 | He had hesitated , then glanced at me with a gravity that did not quite hide the smile behind it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As with so much of what he envisaged , the reality did not quite match the vision . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He did not quite make the grade and said he was happy to come home after missing all last year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All the furniture in it hung from the ceiling by long mouldy ropes and did not quite touch the ground . |
| 11 | The political defeats of the 1930s ‘ shipwreck ’ the avant-garde , and furthermore , through a kind of extension ( since one assumes Anderson 's tripartite conjuncture fuelled even those Modernist forms which did not quite take the transformatory step into engaged avant-gardism ) come to determine ‘ the more general exhaustion of Modernism ’ . |
| 12 | Kenneth Clarke , who did not quite take the country by storm during the election , as predicted , has nonetheless been rewarded with one of the great offices of state : the Home Office . |
| 13 | 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 . |