Sentence examples for i was given to understand from inspiring English sources

I was given to understand that this will never happen.

'I was given to understand that you required a valet.' " Bertie says he would have preferred a mortician.

Nevertheless I was given to understand by the high-handed ridicule directed at them in our apartment that their good-hearted purity carried a price: it was making the dream of a modern, prosperous, westernised Turkey more difficult to achieve.

("Not long after my disaffection," he adds, "I was given to understand that the movies were being animated by a new spirit, that great things were being done. I was willing to believe this". He is still screwing up his courage to go back).

This was during a period in my reading life when I was given to understand that "relating" to the fictional characters or situation was of prime importance, and so I read, I'm sorry to say, narrowly, frugally, unadventurously, as though I had no interest in the greater world and no desire to experience other cycles of thinking and being.

Good story, of course, but I am given to understand, not true.

"So, I'm given to understand that you two have been abrogating your patriotic duties, is that correct?" I said, "Yes, that is correct".

I am given to understand that its management does admit that a mistake was made over its non-coverage of the HSBC tax avoidance allegations.

I can't see a record of it anywhere, although I'm given to understand that he has written a manuscript of 100,000 words.

I am given to understand that the Sun, in its lengthy and closely argued submission to Ipso, stood fair square on that point about the freedom to offend.

It is also important, I am given to understand, to have some kind of instrument suitable for scoring along the marked folds.