I didn't fully comprehend

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

I didn't fully comprehend how much external work there was — just something very simple, like making sure you have the right set of directors.

It's a saying I didn't fully comprehend until my wife and I moved to Prague in 2007 and I started the usual inquiries about where a guy might find a decent job as a carpenter.

He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

But I didn't fully comprehend what she was capable of until I came home one evening when Janni was two and Susan told me she'd asked about negative numbers.

I didn't fully comprehend what was about to happen.

I didn't fully comprehend the consequences of sun damage until I witnessed them first hand.

As a high school student and again as an undergrad working in research laboratories, I did not fully comprehend all of the preparation that goes into experiments.

I knew that the students and even the teachers who said those things to me didn't fully comprehend the effect their white-centric words had on me.

But maybe, too, they didn't fully comprehend how exposed that left them.

But he didn't fully comprehend what that meant, because he didn't know whom he would be replacing.

What we didn't fully comprehend was that, sooner than anyone imagined, there would be thousands of families who would be harmed by DOMA — denied federal benefits, recognition, and security, or kept apart by immigration laws.