Example sentences of "[noun sg] he do [adv] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia could see that locking up a Masai for a crime he did not understand was cruel and inhuman . |
| 2 | For a moment he did n't understand . |
| 3 | To this day he did n't understand that authority . |
| 4 | It just soured the atmosphere of the rehearsal , and left Michael Banks looking pained , like some huge animal , beaten for a transgression he does not understand . |
| 5 | There was an awful lot he did n't understand about this strange world . |
| 6 | He was painfully aware of being an exile in a land he did not understand , and he reacted occasionally with a kind of jingoistic longing for England . |
| 7 | This may be true but presupposes that the law in question is the one which will govern the contract , whereas the reality is that for every contract governed by that law there will be another contract governed by a foreign law with which the party concerned may be unfamiliar , which is in a foreign language he does not understand , and which , when put to the test , may prove demonstrably inferior not only to his own law but to the proposed uniform law . |
| 8 | In fact he did n't understand it at all . |