Sentence examples for understanding a thing from inspiring English sources

Just an adherence to a phrase, a rhythm, all this without understanding a thing.

Jones says, "I love the kind of work Complicite and Kneehigh do, but loving and understanding a thing is not the same as performing it.

We had to learn English; my first memory of London is watching Play School, the kids' TV programme, and seeing the images and not understanding a thing.

Knowledge Philanthropy does not necessarily limit a person to what they have experienced, but the best insights come from understanding a thing you have tried and tested for yourself and not limiting yourself to information you have been told by another.

And an even bigger problem understanding a single thing the someone who waited on him in the computer department of the Big Box store said back to him.

I really think David Gregory will finish the entire health care debate without understanding a single thing about the way actual Americans experience health care in this country, or how the policy would work/not work to solve these problems.

"What we have to get back to is understanding a couple of things," he said, foremost among them being that the White House shouldn't be choosing which people it would deport for violating immigration laws and which it would not.

And when I thought I was being understanding, I didn't understand a thing.

He said each language comes with unique challenges when it comes to just understanding a normal sentence things he referred to as "lazinesses or sloppinesses," that make everyday speech baffling to a non-native speaker.

As John Ruskin put it: "Failure is less frequently attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labour, than to a confused understanding of a thing actually to be done".

(Premise) (Hence) There is (in the understanding) a unique thing than which there is no greater.