Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] understand " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For you alone can understand me and you alone can inspire me . |
| 2 | Children with a mental age of 3 years and above can understand the principle and benefit from its use . |
| 3 | Before the operation my speech had been getting more slurred , so that only people who knew me well could understand me . |
| 4 | Anyone involved with the teaching of art history today will understand the importance of Broude and Garrad 's suggestion that feminist art history will continue to serve ‘ a corrective need ’ in the next decade , until the ‘ values , categories and conceptual structures of our field ’ are profoundly rearranged . |
| 5 | Excusably perhaps , neither Edmund Wilson nor any one else could understand , or could credit , the scale on which Pound was working : 120 cantos , and by the time Pound died in 1972 , the poem had fallen only just short of that . |
| 6 | Further south still towards Navarre , the inhabitants spoke Basque , a language which no one else could understand . |
| 7 | One mentioned her skill at communicating with patients who had had a tracheostomy and another found that she could lip-read patients when nobody else could understand them . |
| 8 | Understood him as no one else could understand him . |
| 9 | Whereas the time taken for a computer working randomly but with the constraint of cumulative selection to perform the same task is of the same order as humans ordinarily can understand , between 11 seconds and the time it takes to have lunch . |
| 10 | I never could understand why a letter typed with a word processor was any less personal than one produced with a typewriter . |
| 11 | ‘ I never could understand how anyone could feel any enthusiasm for going ahead . |
| 12 | Fox never could understand why the bookworm had to read to gain knowledge . |
| 13 | ‘ Poor Charlie never could understand 'ow it come ter 'appen , ? |
| 14 | I never could understand what she saw in him — a bit thin and weedy , to my way of thinking . |
| 15 | ‘ What I never could understand , ’ said Gerald , ‘ was why Steen , who was so good with money , made such a cock-up of that final will . |
| 16 | ‘ I NEVER could understand economics . |
| 17 | I never could understand electricity : it bites you . |
| 18 | Oh well , she never would understand Jenny 's vagaries . |
| 19 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 20 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 21 | I feel sure all mothers worldwide will understand my grief . |