Sentence examples for never understood for from inspiring English sources

In the first ministerial intervention into the controversy, the justice secretary, Jack Straw, said he "never understood for the life of me why MPs are not required to say who they employ".

I never understood for sure what happened there.

I never understand, for instance, why scholars are so ready to dismiss Beethoven's Triple Concerto for piano, violin and cello.

You never understand". For cricket, the trials are likely to come much sooner.

Quite why some people believe that the license fee is bad value for money I'll never understand- for the sheer width and breadth of programming it's unbeatable.

Your partner nods, but you can see they're 33percentt angry, 33percentt offended that you won't stay, and 33percentt something else that you will never understand for as long as you live.

With them, he gets to use some vintage Ross material ("I never understood Jews for Jesus; that's like dogs for cats"), and you get a reminder of what he's leaving out of his act for the general audience.

As for her aged father, a former senator loyal to Trujillo, he never understood the reasons for his Kafkaesque fall from grace, never understood whether the mercurial dictator was simply testing his loyalty -- as he did so routinely with those closest to him -- or whether there had been some unthinking lapse of devotion on his part.

Kargbo never understood the reasons for the war.

She never understood or cared for the remote man her mother had married, but even so, she said, "I always missed having a father".

We wrote off its popularity as the irrationality of hometown allegiance; we never understood Atlantans' affection for the Varsity hot-dog stand, or Cincinnati's love of Skyline chili, either.