The Iraqis couldn't understand their Arabic and the Americans couldn't understand their English.
He couldn't understand why terminal cancer wouldn't qualify him for benefits, says his sister, Diane Penny.
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Since my family couldn't understand Chinese, I thought we were going to be arrested.
German engineers, who focus squarely on the driving experience, couldn't understand the Americans' preoccupation with beverages.
She couldn't understand why -- surely there must have been some law he must have broken.
Mr. Ellis says he couldn't understand how anyone could need more sleep than he did.
She reported that she had been awakened by screaming but couldn't understand the language, the report said.
We just couldn't understand so we did intrusive investigations: we took out bricks and we actually did radar surveys.
"When I found out they were gone I was really, really sad and I couldn't understand it, " she said.
"The guy had a good heart and would do everything he can, but everyone looking in couldn't understand him, " he said.
The flight attendants on the plane couldn't understand why she was crying.
World Cup hero Hamilton said he couldn't understand why the IFA hadn't sounded out Nicholl's terms before offering him a final interview.
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When I lived in Boston or Philadelphia or New Jersey, I couldn't understand the big deal local newscasters made of weather forecasts.
"While I was putting the bandage on... he tried to say something but I couldn't understand what he was saying, " she said.
Mr Flynn expressed dismay at the minister's replies, but Mr Maude said he couldn't understand "what point it is you are making".
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For them it's just being provocative on stage, and they couldn't understand that, and I wasn't allowed to go on the tour with them.
"There were a lot of Americans and Canadians on the plane who couldn't understand why so little snow had brought everything to a halt, " he said.
He was trying to speak but we couldn't understand what he was trying to say so I spoke to him to see how much I could give him some comfort.
They couldn't understand how they got to that point.
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For the life of me I couldn't understand.
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They couldn't understand why this had happened.
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During his visit to the White House last week, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was confronted by an incredulous US President George W. Bush who simply couldn't understand his strange enthusiasm for the prospect of giving Syria the Golan Heights.
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Both my parents were Chinese, but I couldn't understand a word these relatives were saying growing up in California, I was so determined to be American that I refused to attend Chinese language school, and I didn't pick it up from my parents' conversations.
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They couldn't quite understand why Muto was there for making a copy of a Gingrich clip.
Mr. SYKES: Well, I put together the petition with some others because when we looked at the definition that was passed, we couldn't quite understand how it would apply.
He couldn't quite understand how, if he had survived, others hadn't, that he--I mean, I was actually in the hospital alone with him the morning that he woke up, and he had been sort of semiconscious for a few days, but he hadn't asked about what had happened.
The aunt also said she couldn't begin to understand the mass shooting.
The next day, she still couldn't speak or understand anything.
People didn't yet understand or believe that the virus couldn't be spread by casual contact.
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