Example sentences of "[noun] i can understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's the only poem by Yeats I can understand . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Anna I can understand , she 's an example to everyone-but why me ? ’ |
| 3 | When I know how a lustful man may feel towards his neighbour 's pretty young wife I can understand a leer , but if asked what it means there is nothing I can say . |
| 4 | Mr Wilkie , who worked in the Royal Army Educational Corps for 17 years , said : ‘ In some ways I can understand what Grampian Enterprise is doing because these days everything seems to be down to numbers . |
| 5 | With thoughts of conservation I can understand this but then one must understand the times when these were being worked and in the 19th and early 20th century this chalk gave a great many people employment and allowed families to be brought up in reasonably comfortable conditions and many of us now owe our very existance to these cement factories , our fathers and grandfathers earning their livings working on them . |
| 6 | Say like erm th stresses we 're all under will cause depression , but after my had my children I suffered from reactive hyperglycaemia , low blood sugar , and we , that was glucose intolerance and I think an awful lot of women erm , suffer th from this and it 's not erm found out and knowing the glucose intolerance I can understand how a lot of children erm , suffer from er problems with eating habits because I think this is being discovered more and more |
| 7 | Well in a sense I can understand it , probably it was you know , the big , the big re-election thing , and many other bands , they , they , could n't have really get yeah , . |
| 8 | With regard to the vote in the House of Commons on the proposed European committee of the regions , although I can have no sympathy for anyone who votes with the Tory Government I can understand the SNP 's attempts at embracing reality and moving towards the concept of Europe of the regions . |
| 9 | At least that 's the way it is with me , if I can see something in operation I can understand it far more quickly than when someone tries to describe it ’ |
| 10 | It 's a world I can understand , Jeff — not this place . |
| 11 | HAVING lost four general elections I can understand the socialists being busy and trying to scare the electorate with a terror story every day . |
| 12 | ‘ Not eating Becky 's food I can understand , Goldie , but really — I should think my kitchen at least is kosher enough for you ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Revenge I can understand . |
| 14 | As for Aunt Pamela , she never liked me and in a way I can understand why she resented my existence . |
| 15 | This date of April I can understand the Minister er the Minister of Transport is concerned , but unless something is done pretty quickly there 'll be a lot of people in Leeds who will be worrying about what 's going to happen on er around the station because there is this small group of people no not always from the town concerned or the city concerned , who behave in this abysmal way and British Transport Police have a very good record at the stations and on the trains as they can move from one part of the country to another . |
| 16 | If he 's not a Leeds United supporter I can understand it . |
| 17 | Nicolas and Bridget in Plagued by the Nightingale I can understand . |
| 18 | Tommy Armour is proud of its top-of-the-range ladies ' clubs , the 845s Silver Scot , and having tried a set I can understand why . |