Example sentences of "i [vb mod] n't bear the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know it 's silly , I mean she 's dead , but it 's so cold and I could n't bear the idea of her just lying there . ’ |
| 2 | I nearly starved at first because I could n't bear the idea of eating — well — insects and the like , but it 's amazing what you can get used to . ’ |
| 3 | And I could n't bear the way she was there and not there , the way I was present to her and yet not present . |
| 4 | " I could n't bear the company . " |
| 5 | I must have waited several minutes , I should have known but I could n't bear the suspense . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I could n't bear the thought of us going down with me as club captain and president . |
| 7 | I could n't bear the thought of leaving my baby with a stranger . |
| 8 | I could n't bear the thought that it was you he loved . |
| 9 | I could n't bear the thought of hearing that voice again — the low , small voice like that of a child alone in a house at night . |
| 10 | certainly do n't think where we going is suitable for a puddy tat , hours and hours on end and not being allowed to go outside and even when we 're there , I say , we ca n't be running up and down them bloody staircases letting cats out , I could n't , I could n't bear the thought of it never going out . |
| 11 | I could n't bear the world whistling at your lovely body . ’ |
| 12 | I emerged from its jaws a short time later , however , as I could n't bear the heat — My water wave fell down ! ’ |
| 13 | I ran away , back to Palma , because I could n't bear the pain of Maria Luisa coming back , wanting you back and the life all three of you shared . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm sorry , I know you think I 'm old-fashioned , but I ca n't bear the thought of you not marrying in church — not having God 's blessing upon the pair of you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't bear the thought of sitting here watching him . |
| 16 | I ca n't bear the thought of Batty playing against Leeds . |
| 17 | " I do n't want to think of anything happening to Great-Aunt Alicia to begin with — and I ca n't bear the thought of selling Moor-lake . " |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think any sentence would really be appropriate but I ca n't bear the thought that he is going to be out one day , and that day is going to be sooner than I thought . |
| 19 | I ca n't bear the suspense . " |
| 20 | I have so many indelible impressions of that day : of cutting a soldier 's clothes off his body with scissors as he screamed with pain ; of a young man seizing my hand with an iron grip as he groaned ‘ I 'm dying — I ca n't bear the pain ’ ; of a baby girl less than two years old just staring ahead as the blood soaked into her clothes ; of the terrible vacant look caused by shell-shock on the faces of teenage soldiers ; of the stench of human excrement , urine and blood as the nurses and nuns struggled to clean up the patients . |