Example sentences of "do [not/n't] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sees I do n't understand . |
| 2 | Gave her the facts to make of what she would ; and make of them what she could , Jay did not understand . |
| 3 | I am not a modernist , though I presided at the Arts Council with liberal equanimity over the public funding of much modernist art which I did not understand . |
| 4 | As I reached the door the woman smiled and said something in French which I did not understand . |
| 5 | The Komsomols themselves knew they did not understand the instructions they got from the party cell , and said so , but received no advice as a result . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Since they did not understand what the Sign of the Cross meant or the meaning of Our Father , he had started with a simple explanation of these and had told them how important it was to start praying together . |
| 8 | Hepworth was to speak wistfully of ‘ a pressure in the air which we did not understand ’ , saying that ‘ we worked on as best we could in spite of it . ’ |
| 9 | She did not understand what he had meant until they were getting into the car . |
| 10 | Jinny did not understand , but the boy 's head turned and he stared at the Hare-woman . |
| 11 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | Loopy Lil stared round at the destruction with a look of hopelessness as though she did not understand how it had happened . |
| 13 | Perhaps , being so very different from Grandma herself , she did not understand her needs . |
| 14 | Frankie did not understand how it could be so important which end of the Bible they preferred to read or which church they were both too busy to attend every Saturday and Sunday . |
| 15 | Even the teachers were being nice to him , and he did not understand why . |
| 16 | She did not understand it . |
| 17 | Today , lighting the oven , she was sure that she did not understand . |
| 18 | It was the first day of the show season , but most of the horses did not understand . |
| 19 | They were objects of interest , to a degree even their crews did not understand . |
| 20 | He did not understand that she felt so shrivelled and drained , and all thought of sexual relations was abhorrent to her — she was not a fit partner , and shrank from his attentions with loathing . |
| 21 | At that time , thanks in particular to the work of Morgan and his colleagues on Drosophila , we had an abstract model of how genes are arranged on chromosomes , and of how they are transmitted from generation to generation , but we did not understand the chemistry of genes , or their replication , or their role in protein synthesis . |
| 22 | She did not understand . |
| 23 | He liked numbers ; they were funny little squiggles and he liked the way everyone agreed when an answer was right although he did not understand why . |
| 24 | The only thing was Mr Litmus ' answers contained long complicated words , names of strange substances and funny symbols that Endill did not understand . |
| 25 | A Dorset village boy was sent ‘ to a very old man ’ to be taught to read , but learnt little : the old man stood ‘ facing the window , puffing away at his pipe , and when we would ask him to explain anything that we did not understand , he would tell us that he watched the chimneys to see when other people lit their fires … . ’ |
| 26 | It was not enough to have modern weapons and ‘ the best of young Irishmen ’ if the people did not understand the nature of the freedom for which they were fighting and that |
| 27 | Uncle Harry did not understand , but there was a trace of truth in what he had said . |
| 28 | And then they surrounded Milward 's house and pillaged and put to the sword Milward and other members of the Wimbledon Society who simply did not understand that — ‘ You look as if you 're going to have a thrombie ! ’ said a voice behind him . |
| 29 | Too difficult ! ’ and oaths in Arabic that I did not understand . |
| 30 | I did not understand German , and was not interested in the photograph of myself at the top , but bottom left , was a small black-and-white snapshot of Joan and the children . |