Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] not understand [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nothing to do with her and she could not understand Sara 's love of the old house . |
| 2 | We shall not understand Anselm 's last years unless his fundamentally unpolitical attitude to his duties is borne in mind . |
| 3 | We can not understand God 's true character . |
| 4 | One can not understand Constanza 's actions without taking into account that side . |
| 5 | He could not understand Modigliani 's disregard for both his health and his money and found it shocking . |
| 6 | He seems not to have whined , and his only complaint , posthumously recorded by Bunting in his obituary of Pound , is drily judicious : he ‘ said in the Thirties that Eliot had got stuck because he could not understand Propertius [ i.e. Pound 's Homage ] and ill the rest had not stuck a few books earlier still ’ . |