Example sentences of "she do not understand " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She understood his need for sport , because she too enjoyed exercise ; what she did not understand was his need to punish himself with such dangerous activities . |
| 2 | She did not understand what he had meant until they were getting into the car . |
| 3 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | Loopy Lil stared round at the destruction with a look of hopelessness as though she did not understand how it had happened . |
| 5 | Perhaps , being so very different from Grandma herself , she did not understand her needs . |
| 6 | She did not understand it . |
| 7 | Today , lighting the oven , she was sure that she did not understand . |
| 8 | She did not understand . |
| 9 | ‘ Constanza says that she felt so much for her mother , even if she did not understand then what it meant to her to be cut off from Italy , from Rome . |
| 10 | She did not understand what your son wanted from her . |
| 11 | Mme Bluot was most impressed when she heard Didier enter the shop , prattling in a language she did not understand . |
| 12 | She did not understand cars . |
| 13 | ‘ Ridley J. has come to the conclusion that in fact no sufficient explanation of it was given to her , and that she did not understand it . |
| 14 | 854 the question of the wife 's understanding of the promissory note was not addressed and there is no reason to think that she did not understand it . |
| 15 | She did not understand why I wanted to leave her . |
| 16 | As for Miguel , he would treat her to a long stare with those soulful eyes and mutter something she did not understand . |
| 17 | She did not understand that he was mocking her , or that he would take such a revenge on her for the pleasure he found in her . |
| 18 | This was his war and she did not understand it ; did not understand any more than Bella , what it was like ‘ up there . ’ |
| 19 | She turned on the radio and listened to a Greek play which she did not understand but liked . |
| 20 | She did not understand why they should be doing this and her failure to understand reminded her of something . |
| 21 | She said — she said she did not understand a word you said , either of you . ’ |
| 22 | She did not understand him . |
| 23 | She did not understand how Oliver could be so calm after what he had said about Dad at the end of the party . |
| 24 | She did not understand Clare 's sense of humour . |
| 25 | Now she was perplexed and afraid ; perplexed because she did not understand what had happened , and afraid of what it might mean if she did . |
| 26 | She was crying now , greedy for him again , desperate for something she did not understand . |
| 27 | She is not hurt by what I have said , she thought , she is neither hurt nor angry , she does not understand what I have said , her mind is losing the powers of comprehension and she has no longer an emotional response . |
| 28 | In the second case , that where the wife agrees to become surety at the instance of her husband though she does not understand the effect of the document or the nature of the transaction , her failure to do so may be the result of the husband 's actually misleading her , but in any case it could hardly ever occur without some impropriety on his part even if that impropriety consisted only in his neglect to inform her of the exact nature of that to which she is willing blindly , ignorantly or mistakenly to assent . |
| 29 | ‘ But it is clearly necessary to distinguish between , on the one hand , cases in which a wife , alive to the nature and effect of the obligation she is undertaking , is procured to become her husband 's surety by the assertion by him upon her of undue influence , affirmatively established , and on the other hand , cases where she does not understand the effect of the document or the nature of the transaction of suretyship . |
| 30 | The hon. Lady persists — I do not think that it is because she does not understand — in making the bogus comparison between in-patient and out-patient waits now and in 1979 . |