Example sentences of "[vb mod] understand [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Craark ! ’ it said , and to Mildred 's delight , she found that she could understand what the creature meant . |
| 2 | What was more , I could understand what the men were saying ; although their accents were strange , their French was perfectly comprehensible . |
| 3 | Everyone who has watched a loved one go through the experience of a major and dangerous operation will understand what the next few weeks were like . |
| 4 | Now some doctors could conceivably still be frightened off , but we must presume , I think , that doctors are literate people , that they can understand what the law is if it is told to them , and the medical societies and other groups are making available to them the workings of this particular Act . |
| 5 | With a dentist one can understand what the chap is actually saying . |
| 6 | In the light of this passage we can interpret one of Wordsworth 's gnomic sayings — ‘ The Child is Father of the Man ’ — and can understand what the attractive childhood episodes are doing in Books i and ii ; they are now seen to be similar ‘ spots of time … enshrined … for future restoration ’ . |
| 7 | For nobody can understand what the Government is doing to clear up the economic mess it has created . |
| 8 | Er , I dare n't give away Rosemary and John , 'cos they 're the only two that can understand what the hell I 'm talking about . |
| 9 | The General and I , on the other hand , being men of intellect and learning , can understand everything the old bugger is saying . |