Example sentences of "understand [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hey , lost in music and lost for words , you yell and purr but all you can understand is that The Smiths are special and you 'll hug them to your heart … |
| 2 | What I do understand is that if the master 's not home for the party tomorrow , the mistress wo n't be pleased — and that 's putting it mildly . |
| 3 | ‘ What Governor Clinton does n't understand is that it 's the people in the voting booths that matter . ’ |
| 4 | What the child does not understand is that unfortunately the GIANTS have to do this . |
| 5 | ‘ But what you do n't understand is that it 's Leo I 'm doing it for . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ What you must understand is that even convicts have a twisted code of ethics that they live by . |
| 7 | What these marauding fund-raisers do n't understand is that there 's only three of me , and two of those are wives and working mothers . |
| 8 | But one thing you should understand is that you 're in way over your head . |
| 9 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 10 | This Edouard knew : what he could not understand was that in the years since the end of the war Jean-Paul had made no attempt to restore the house . |
| 11 | She did n't quite , but what she did understand was that she hated this woman , and the thought momentarily came to her that that man would n't surely have been as bad as this mean-faced nun . |
| 12 | The one thing the serfs did understand was that they were not yet free . |