Example sentences of "[noun sg] i can understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 , . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ |
| 7 | It 's a world I can understand , Jeff — not this place . |
| 8 | ‘ Not eating Becky 's food I can understand , Goldie , but really — I should think my kitchen at least is kosher enough for you ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Revenge I can understand . |
| 10 | As for Aunt Pamela , she never liked me and in a way I can understand why she resented my existence . |
| 11 | If he 's not a Leeds United supporter I can understand it . |
| 12 | Nicolas and Bridget in Plagued by the Nightingale I can understand . |
| 13 | 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 . |