Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Midland Bank 's small business and branch managers have been issued with a business information guide to help them better understand the needs of people wishing to set up a bookshop or specialist comic shop . |
| 2 | Do I now understand it that the whole programme is subject to maximum price ? |
| 3 | Did she not understand that she had no need to fight me , to defend herself from me ? |
| 4 | Did she not understand that I would look after her , that 1 would see to it that she was safe and well ? |
| 5 | I am busy , can you not understand ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Faith Lavender is dead , can you not hear , can you not understand ? |
| 7 | Why will you not understand the psychology that is so important in the national question and which , if the slightest coercion is applied , besmirches , soils and nullifies the undoubtedly progressive importance of centralized large States and a uniform language ? |
| 8 | Why do you not understand my needs as a woman ? |
| 9 | The seventy nine of you who voted for banning hunting , a are you all townees , do you not understand th the fabric of er , of the country ? |
| 10 | Would she ever understand this complex man ? |
| 11 | How could she ever understand , the way she is now ? ’ |
| 12 | Sometimes when I was drunk and I 'd see him standing there looking all quiet and black and white and gorgeous , waiting for someone to take him home , I 'd get all teary and want to go up and slap him and shout in his face : How can you possibly understand what it means ! |
| 13 | Do you clearly understand this ? ’ |
| 14 | Did she really understand what she was taking on ? |
| 15 | One , stating that ‘ the great task imposed on us in the struggle against Bolshevism resides in the annihilation of eternal Jewry ’ , went on : ‘ Only when you see what the Jew has brought about here in Russia , can you really understand why the Führer began the struggle against Jewry . |
| 16 | Once you abandoned the theorist 's armchair and his gloomy study and actually got out there among living tribesmen , then and only then could you really understand what was going on . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you really understand ? ’ |
| 18 | When , and if , you took out your mortgage , did you fully understand the choices open to you ? |
| 19 | But , even if you are willing to accept the connection , do you fully understand it ? |
| 20 | But can you fully understand the meaning of the following historical statements : |
| 21 | Do n't you yet understand , boy , what you mean to me ? |
| 22 | Until we better understand what is really wrong with Gaia and how to treat her symptoms , any meaningful discussions about future ‘ sustainable development ’ — the current preoccupation — seem not only premature but , quite possibly , moot . |
| 23 | We have all experienced childhood , it therefore seems familiar , but do we necessarily understand this most transient of states or those images which attempt to capture its fragmentary differences ? |
| 24 | Must we not understand by socialization of the means of production that the means of living and working belong to everyone ? ’ |
| 25 | How then could we ever understand the nature and functioning of the whole belt ? |
| 26 | This is something that the British harp on that incessantly , using it as the main reason for choosing one restaurant over another , but do we really understand what it means and are we consistent in our assessment of perceived value ? |
| 27 | Does anybody not understand what I 'm trying |
| 28 | Do they properly understand what is required ? |
| 29 | Why could n't they just understand that she did n't want to be married and settled with umpteen kids and a mortgage up to the sky and no life to call her own ? |
| 30 | Do they not understand how much people like myself love Morrissey ? |