Example sentences of "i [vb mod] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guevara begun by saying that I must understand the Cuban revolution . |
| 2 | ‘ I might understand it but I do n't know anyone who enjoys the criticism . |
| 3 | ‘ When I spoke of your circumstances , it was only in the belief that I might understand your plight . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll be very honoured if you can come , but I 'll understand if you ca n't . ’ |
| 5 | If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro . |
| 6 | Gran says I 'll understand one of these days . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll understand if you 're not ready . ’ |
| 8 | always ask me never never just let it go and think , Oh well perhaps I 'll understand it later . |
| 9 | If you want to leave I 'll understand , but you 're the only one I can trust now . ’ |
| 10 | I try to accept that one day , somehow , I 'll understand . ’ |
| 11 | Put , put the nine going to the three threes , I 'll understand , possibly . |
| 12 | I was so pleased , ’ she looked at me shyly or was it a little slyly , ‘ I could understand from knowing my Classics what the old peasants were saying . |
| 13 | I could understand them but Daddy could n't . |
| 14 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 15 | That was something I could understand , and approve of — to make a clean cut . |
| 16 | All of that I could understand , but it concerned me that she was so nervous and desperately unhappy . |
| 17 | I am no farmer , or perhaps I could understand how wheat and potatoes can be grown at the same time in Ireland . |
| 18 | I think I could understand enough , however , to be able to put my experience into perspective . |
| 19 | If I could understand why they accept such cruelty , I could understand why there is so much violence here . |
| 20 | If I could understand why they accept such cruelty , I could understand why there is so much violence here . |
| 21 | I could understand that and was delighted when I saw people realising that we most certainly were not steeped in Factory greyness . ’ |
| 22 | From the moment I could understand the human voice 1 — and I expect most of my generation — was told to be ‘ seen and not heard ’ … ‘ consider others before yourself ’ … ‘ never complain' and if you were a boy child , then you were exhorted to be a man , to show no emotion , and not to be a sissy . |
| 23 | One that I saw looked like harp in a chamber of pure light ; and at that moment I could understand the frenzy and madness of the bees that visit these studios of paradise , full of sweetness , and can not cease until they die . |
| 24 | Although my certificate in Sociology had not yet come , I knew that my next and most important study must be Theology , only so I could understand the situation that my children would face in the future , and other people 's children would have to meet as well . |
| 25 | I know he was a ratepayer because he repeated this fact in the subsequent inquiry , a dozen or so times , adding that he did n't pay rates to have his hat ruined , a view I could understand . |
| 26 | This fact was in my consciousness , and unconscious , long before I could understand the explanation for this state of affairs . |
| 27 | I could understand its thinking it is a vampire but a woodpecker ? |
| 28 | He answered earnestly and in words I could understand . |
| 29 | I could understand the attraction . |
| 30 | I could understand that kind of fascination with my forehead . |