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I didn't understand why, Clay.
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I and didn't
I didn't catch a wink.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.
I almost didn't tell you ''.
I said that it didn't make any difference to me either, as far as I knew.
You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??
`` I didn't know.
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
I didn't mean to pull so hard ''.
Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.
`` I didn't know I was gonna have company in this car ''.
I really didn't know what he meant.
Like the cowboy in Stephen Crane's `` Blue Hotel '', we run around crying, `` Well, I didn't do anything, did I ''??
A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.
When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.
In describing it to Professor Baker after it had been chosen for production, he defended his great array of characters by declaring that he had included that many not because `` I didn't know how to save paint '', but because the play required them.
I wanted to wipe my flint, but I didn't dare to, the state my hands were in, just as I didn't dare to do anything about the priming.
I and understand
He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.
Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.
I understand how you feel about the child.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
`` I don't understand '', she insisted.
Fruit compote: `` If you think I would understand it '' ; ;
The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.
But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.
as I understand it, Mr. Hammarskjold wanted outside advice.
`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.
Anyone who has watched children develop a taste for literature will understand what I mean.
`` I understand [ Hearst ] is a candidate for Presidential honors '', Devery said without cracking a smile.
Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.
I understand very well about Lauro Di Bosis and how his action is symbolic.
He said to the Secretary, `` I understand you came from a little Pennsylvania town near Wilkes-Barre.
`` Reverend '', he said, `` I think you don't quite understand the situation here.
I don't understand why a white hotel should be down here ''.
`` I understand ''.
`` I goddamn well understand ''.
`` I goddamn well understand.
I and why
When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
I suspected why he brought it along.
I don't get it why this time I should pull such a stupid trick ''.
How he returned in such a ghastly condition, or why, I cannot say.
At a party an English intellectual -- so-called -- asked me why I write always about distress.
I had read the story many times without asking myself why it affected me or caring why it did.
I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.
`` But why in the name of God can't I give my father blood ''??
I don't know how and I don't know why but the two stores, the one in Margaretville and the one in Fleischmanns that had been set up as a partnership, were dissolved, separated from each other.
Meltzer knew why I had come for him.
This is why I say we just can't go ahead and disarm the Germans and pull down our own defenses.
That's why I only put towels on his chest and belly.
`` Chickens have short memories '', the doctor remarked, `` that's why they are better company than most people I know '', and he went on to break some important news to Alex.
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