Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] not understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am afraid that I do not understand ! ’ he exclaimed . |
| 2 | I have read the report of the guardian ad litem and such information as I have which would indicate her view of the local authority 's actions now on several occasions and I have to say that I do not understand what findings the justices believed that they were making or what reasons they were giving for their decision in that brief statement , which I have just quoted in full . |
| 3 | Too difficult ! ’ and oaths in Arabic that I did not understand . |
| 4 | Today , lighting the oven , she was sure that she did not understand . |
| 5 | ‘ Ridley J. has come to the conclusion that in fact no sufficient explanation of it was given to her , and that she did not understand it . |
| 6 | 854 the question of the wife 's understanding of the promissory note was not addressed and there is no reason to think that she did not understand it . |
| 7 | ( Alternatively , you could pretend that you have just been beamed down from outer space and that you do not understand a word that he is saying — which is at least partly true ! ) |
| 8 | Asking for clarification of any points that you do not understand . |
| 9 | However the argument does nothing to suggest that you do not understand the proposition that you are sitting reading a book . |
| 10 | In ordinary life , if someone says something that you do not understand , you ask him to explain himself more fully . |
| 11 | It may seem unnecessary to add : if given a choice , do not attempt to answer a question that you do not understand ( unless , of course , your plight is such that there is no other you can do instead ) . |
| 12 | Well perhaps we ought to give people a s a a list a piece of paper and a pencil when they come into church one day , and say , Write down all the words that you hear today , or sing today that you do not understand . |
| 13 | But I can do many things that you do not understand . |
| 14 | We know that nutrients added to the water by humans make the algae grow , this combined with the sunlight causes blooms , but beyond that we do not understand much about the toxins . ’ |
| 15 | The plan is not a blueprint for the future , it stresses , merely the starting signal for a process in which dialogue and choices made by individuals , private industry and government will shape the environmental programmes : ‘ What we want to do , in the realization that we do not understand all the relationships , is to indicate the conditions under which an environmental quality can be attained that will provide future generations with as many options as possible . ’ |
| 16 | Little wonder that we do not understand the basic ingredients of Aboriginal culture in Australia ; our education teaches us nothing about these workings of nature or how we inter-relate with them . |
| 17 | About one hundred million years ago , for reasons that we do not understand , the ammonite dynasty began to dwindle . |
| 18 | Indeed it is possible that we do not understand these things very well unless standardization is taken into account . |
| 19 | Our problem is that we do not understand how officials can know whether a claim is frivolous until they have looked at it . |
| 20 | Environmentalists have been particularly alarmed by the disappearance of this whole network of species for reasons unknown , for it demonstrates a world that is changing in ways that we do not understand . |
| 21 | A Dorset village boy was sent ‘ to a very old man ’ to be taught to read , but learnt little : the old man stood ‘ facing the window , puffing away at his pipe , and when we would ask him to explain anything that we did not understand , he would tell us that he watched the chimneys to see when other people lit their fires … . ’ |
| 22 | However , people who confessed that they did not understand interest rates at all well ( see below ) were more likely than average to find that the total cost of their most recent credit transaction had been more than they had planned . |
| 23 | The affidavit evidence of the defendants is to the effect that they did not understand that executing a further charge was prohibited by the order . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal in Fritschy [ 1985 ] 31 July LEXIS ( not reported in [ 1985 ] Crim LR 745 on this point ) said that they did not understand Lord Roskill 's comment , but anyway the accused was not guilty because he had done nothing in England which had not been expressly authorised by the victim when he collected krugerrands in England . |
| 25 | I know booksellers who regard the written word with the utmost suspicion , profess that they do not understand it , and will have nothing to do with it ; dealers who specialise in autograph material , but will not touch books — unless , of course , they happen to be on the subject of autographs ; and many who maintain an ambivalent attitude , preferring to keep their options open and , if they can afford it , employing some eccentric especially to deal with this awkward material . |
| 26 | Only today I received a document from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals that shows that it does not understand . |
| 27 | Show me one small businessman who happens to be a director of a limited company , who actually requires 15 pages of nonsense that he does not understand , when his annual accounts are prepared . |
| 28 | My own view is that he did not understand , nor admit to himself , the extent of his own error in starting off on his own without experienced and able people around him . |
| 29 | His youth now seemed so distant that he was no longer particularly interested in such matters , and he confessed to his wife that he did not understand a word of that thesis . |
| 30 | He thought about it for a few moments , but said nothing except that he did not understand why a second shoe had been stolen . |