Example sentences of "i [verb] not [adv] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | The carving is of a quality I do not even understand . |
| 2 | I do not yet understand it , but although I was once a keen and proud European , there are things in it that would now make me one of the most sceptical . |
| 3 | Mr Boyd had patients waiting , a fact I do not quite understand , since he had just told Boswell and Johnson the story of one of Lord Errol 's tenants . |
| 4 | The adjudging of the beastblood is something else I do not fully understand , ’ said Dierdriu , ‘ but it is a little to do with the eyes , and a little to do with the movements … |
| 5 | I do not rightly understand how the medical men could not save him after the accident since you say the cut seemed small and did not appear to trouble him but I have heard that for the blood to be poisoned it takes only a pin-prick and that a cut where there is manure about can have this effect if not noticed . |
| 6 | The older of the young ones let out a sniggering laugh which developed into a hiccoughy laugh , the younger one hissed out , fuckin' bloody Paki ; a third voice , I could n't tell whose , said something which I did not quite understand but sounded like , and indeed was , National Front . |
| 7 | Unfortunately I did not fully understand that the usefulness of the machine was limited by its memory capacity and the extent to which not having a hard disk would limit my son 's use of the machine . |
| 8 | I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 9 | I could n't believe my ears but she repeated it : I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 10 | There seemed to be something which I had not properly understood . |