fail to see something spoken
fail to understand something

Anyone who happened along couldn't have failed to see us.

Why had she failed to see that in him before?

He has failed to see the big picture of the county's financial management.

But the days passed and we failed to see any change in her.

But he failed to see the need to cover the nine.

Was it possible there were other things she'd failed to see, too?

Failing to see them, he had no interest in anything or anyone else.

I used to wonder how people could have failed to see the real problem.

"How often do we fail to see the God in each other?"

When the other players failed to see the point, he explained.

But you are neither, or I failed to see it.

Little wonder that he and Michael failed to see each other.

But I fail to see what that has to do with your problem.

"I fail to see what interest you have in the matter."

Yet I fail to see how that would work against us.

I fail to see how this is a big deal.

I fail to see the difference between this government and the last one.

But it will never come true if we fail to see the real world around us.

I failed to see a critical threat to our security.

I fail to see why this Council had to be called in.

"I fail to see how you could have done more."

Still, I fail to see any other purpose to the site.

He had failed to see the political implications of such a move, the officials said.

They failed to see the love of freedom that was written in the human heart.

And yet, if the lines were clear, we wouldn't fail to see them so often.

He said something to her, but she failed to understand the words.

And she failed to understand me when I told her of potential.

They fail to understand the nature of most knowledge work.

Or even why women too often fail to understand one another.

We failed to understand the media, the culture, even the language in that region.

She had quite failed to understand why they were fighting on the floor behind her.

But it was a picture that he failed to understand.

He had wanted to see if she would fail to understand.

"I've never known him to fail to understand the important points in any business case."

I fail to understand what is so difficult about it.

I fail to understand the point of all the discussion here.

Sometimes it's because one of us fails to understand something in another field.

Only one man in that room of death failed to understand the silence.

Had he and his men failed to understand the signal from the window?

I had no idea that you failed to understand the most basic rules of child care.

So many people fail to understand the financial structure of the business world.

The officer told her what he later said many people failed to understand: that anyone can watch.

I fail to understand what you consider a "poor record."

"There are too many things about this problem that I fail to understand."

What is it about progress so many of you fail to understand.

I really fail to understand what previous success has to do with this.

Thus the audience fail to understand everything that is offered.

We failed to understand the commitment of China and other developing countries.

But other problems arose when schools failed to understand that these students were indeed different.

You have failed to understand what the Soviet people accomplished just before and during the war.