Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pers pn] can [not/n't] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to know what is behind this first , ’ he snapped , ‘ because for the life of me I can not understand why a man in his position should want to take up with the likes of you . |
| 2 | ( 1987 : 29 ) I would only add that the value of what we can not understand is only recognized by reference to what we can . |
| 3 | They rooted out those folk who were not … ordinary , and banished them from Minginish. people are afraid of what they can not understand . ’ |
| 4 | There was a mood , if we cloud all this up in realms of high theology then we shall all agree on what we can not understand . |
| 5 | This is identical with the reaction of primitives to a fetich : it is animated by something they can not understand . |