Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] understand [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could understand why they accept such cruelty , I could understand why there is so much violence here . |
| 2 | I could understand how she felt ; I realized that anyone who convinced herself that , when she took the holy biscuit she was uniting herself with God , would find it easy to convince herself that in death she would be united with her daughter . |
| 3 | I shall understand why she refuses me , if she does . ’ |
| 4 | He listens , he listens to it afterwards and he goes no I ca n't understand , well now I can , now I can understand why they take the piss out of me for my voice . |
| 5 | I mean I can understand why they do and I like the stuff myself , but I do n't share the belief that I get from all sides that impressionism is what art should be like normally . |
| 6 | Did n't happen any town that I knew of except London and I can understand why they did it in London — very expensive place for a young detective to make a shape — cost too much money keeping in front of your job there . |
| 7 | Oh I suppose he 's invested it wrongly or whatever I do n't know I I can understand why they did n't come to his rescue , you know , I mean , they 've got their livelihood to think about and he was a bachelor where as they 've got children , or and he 's brothers and they 're |
| 8 | As for Aunt Pamela , she never liked me and in a way I can understand why she resented my existence . |
| 9 | I can understand why she works in a hotel but I mean why not in Cardiff or something like that ? |
| 10 | Not nought I can understand why you said nought . |
| 11 | I can understand why you lied . ’ |
| 12 | For the last two days I have known what I lost when I left you and , while you should not have believed Havvie , I can understand why you did . |
| 13 | I think I can understand why he chose the 18th century . |
| 14 | I can understand why he has been invited to coach . |
| 15 | Erm , if it is the one this morning , I can understand why he has n't done one today |
| 16 | I can understand why he did it , to be quite honest . |
| 17 | ‘ But I can understand how you feel . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I can understand how you feel . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You must think we 're all very wicked sometimes , Mr Devlin , but you must understand how it started . |
| 20 | I know you 'll understand when I say my husband 's a one for the usquebaugh , I was about to correct him with the pressure-cooker once but I remembered my Victorian values just in time . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll understand when you get a little older . ’ |
| 22 | Well , now you know her story , and you 'll understand why I did n't want it to happen to you . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , now perhaps you 'll understand why I have no intention of giving up anything , ’ Jenna stated . |
| 24 | ‘ Then you 'll understand how I feel about Ryan , wo n't you ? ’ he asked grimly . |
| 25 | She told Anne that she could understand how she felt as John had been born when his father was in France during the First World War . |
| 26 | ‘ I doubt whether you could understand how it feels to know for all eternity that the creations of hell are pursuing you , ’ Kopyion said . |
| 27 | You will understand when I say that I should like a poem to stand as preface to your book , a poem which we have both admired so much , Thomas Hardy 's ‘ Afterwards ’ . |
| 28 | You will understand when you see its handsome dark green leathery leaves and startling gold-eyed daisies , their cerise-magenta ray florets in branched heads 1–1/2ft above the ground . |
| 29 | But I think you will understand why we do not regret staging a grand wedding for Annabelle and Steven . |
| 30 | Before a function can be managed , one must understand how it works and Fig. 17 suggests how the exhibition communication process works . |