Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [not/n't] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice did n't understand . |
| 2 | GINA 'S French blood would make her appreciate the similarity between the words ‘ cherry ’ and ‘ chérie ’ , even if Eleanor did n't understand . |
| 3 | Britta did n't understand , but she was reminded of her mind-trip inside the simulacrum of Pool . |
| 4 | ‘ People in warm offices in Brussels do n't understand that it can blow and snow for six weeks here ’ |
| 5 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |
| 6 | ‘ Richard did n't understand magazine publishing , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Frankie did not understand how it could be so important which end of the Bible they preferred to read or which church they were both too busy to attend every Saturday and Sunday . |
| 8 | Now they were laughing and Delia Sutherland did not understand . |
| 9 | " You in the United States do n't understand how a country should be run , " the Shah had declared . |
| 10 | Lexandro did n't understand . |
| 11 | Darwin did not understand the principles of er , genetics . |
| 12 | Artemis did n't understand what he meant , but dared not ask him . |
| 13 | Anabelle did not understand . |
| 14 | Barnett had been a founder of COS in 1869 but , largely due to his experience in a desperately poor Whitechapel parish , he had become convinced that the COS did not understand the meaning of poverty and the helplessness which it bred . |
| 15 | ‘ Alan does n't understand the technicalities . ’ |
| 16 | The only thing was Mr Litmus ' answers contained long complicated words , names of strange substances and funny symbols that Endill did not understand . |
| 17 | ‘ Burun does not understand Artai , ’ Jotan said . |
| 18 | Part of the time he may almost be unaware that he is speaking to another person — after all Gila does n't understand English very well and it is unlikely that she would fully understand the references to Rupert Brooke and the poem ‘ The Old Vicarage , Grantchester ’ . |
| 19 | Carrington did not understand . |
| 20 | Oliver did not understand what was happening . |
| 21 | Uncle Harry did not understand , but there was a trace of truth in what he had said . |
| 22 | Willie did n't understand what was so particularly special about that . |
| 23 | Willie did n't understand . |
| 24 | Jinny did not understand , but the boy 's head turned and he stared at the Hare-woman . |
| 25 | He said , ‘ Annabel does n't understand why the trustees originally allowed her large sums of money but are now refusing relatively small sums . ’ |
| 26 | Durance said to Rain : ‘ I ca n't believe Joseph does n't understand that selling under her name a painting recognizable as a Durance is equivalent to telling a journalist she had been painting my pictures . |
| 27 | Seated between Maria Teresa and Maria Iñes , with João in the row in front of them beside his close friend , Fernando , Sara did not understand what was to happen at first , and presumed that the ceremony was some symbolic re-enactment of a past event . |
| 28 | But Marian did not understand either . |
| 29 | In ways Jaq did not understand she was studying and altering and neutralizing the dissolving contents of her stomach , immunizing herself to those through the mediation of the Polymorphine . |
| 30 | Again and again in the responses to our 1989 survey of all heads , those in Phase 3 schools commented negatively on their PNP staffing : that it had little impact ; that it even exacerbated their previous staffing problems ; that it was too little too late ; that the LEA did not understand the problems which their schools were trying to tackle . |