Example sentences of "[verb] never [adv] understood " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thinks that , unlike its competitors , British industry has never quite understood the nature , or the importance , of research and development . |
| 2 | She remembered him trying to tell her , sometimes , about the sky and the Thing and where nomes first came from , and she 'd never really understood , any more than he 'd understood about the little frogs . |
| 3 | She 'd never really understood the meaning behind the adage — until now . |
| 4 | I 've never understood it — probably because I 've never really understood her . ’ |
| 5 | I 've never really understood it . |
| 6 | Cissie had a love of reading , especially since Beth had helped her to master the longer words that she had never really understood . |
| 7 | It seemed unlikely that he could be as devastated by the death of a single patient as Julia had made out in her letters , but then she had never really understood him . |
| 8 | It was Paul 's obsessive jealousy which had diseased and finally destroyed her feelings for him , even though it was an emotion she had never fully understood — until now . |
| 9 | She had never fully understood why her life should have changed so suddenly and drastically , though she knew by rote the duties and privileges of married ladies , and did her best to play her part decorously . |
| 10 | Sally-Anne had never before understood the necessity to be absolutely precise in everything she did , and Matey 's training , designed to make her a good maid , was beginning to affect her habits in every other part of her life . |
| 11 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 12 | I have never quite understood why " Chesh " as we called him at the time , was the only person I selected for training with the Force that my Master vetoed ; my Master also vetoed the selection of Leonard to command No 35 Squadron in the early days of the Pathfinder Force and I was never able to establish why . |