Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] not cope [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even though I had known this man for years , I could not cope with seeing him alone , ’ she said . |
| 2 | I 'm not what you 'd call the retiring type , and I rarely flinch from a fight when I 'm sure of my own righteousness ; but there is one thing I can not cope with , and that is unprovoked aggression . |
| 3 | MIND I can not cope with . |
| 4 | I can not cope with the pain , Spike thought . |
| 5 | This is the untold story of an exchange which rightly prides itself on an ability to offer efficient markets in leading shares but which can not cope with the unattractive smaller companies . |
| 6 | However , she may not cope with another supplemented runner , LINE OF THUNDER ( nap 3.10 ) . |
| 7 | She could not cope with lifts , and she could not go into the garden shed in case the door closed upon her . |
| 8 | Recording a verdict that Mrs Bowyer ‘ Took her own life ’ , Dr Weir said : ‘ This is terribly tragic because she did it because she could not cope with the pain of the illness she suffered from . ’ |
| 9 | A DEPRESSED mum has vanished with her three mischievous sons after saying she could not cope with long school holidays and mounting debts . |
| 10 | She and her husband were on the brink of breaking up and she could not cope with personal relationships . |
| 11 | In my own backyard , friends who could not cope with their own homophobia deserted me … |
| 12 | The need for these was identified when the regular programme of summer schools for ABE students began to attract students with severe learning difficulties who could not cope with the curriculum offered but seemed to gain great benefit from the opportunity for residential education . |
| 13 | The revolutionaries tended to be drawn from those who could not cope with normal life , with a regular profession , with human relationships . |
| 14 | Those small owner publishers who could not cope with the new financial pressures were forced to expand , to merge with other larger companies , or go bust . |
| 15 | Even if the child is a drain on her health , and she can not cope with it , public opinion will totally condemn her if she neglects or injures her child . |
| 16 | ‘ We are dealing daily with people who can not cope with their financial problems , ’ said Christine Snowball , a CAB debt adviser . |
| 17 | If you allow the speed to build up you will rapidly get into a situation you can not cope with , so take it very steadily until you become more experienced and confident . |
| 18 | It is very important to keep our name and work in the public eye and if you know about a suitable event , but feel you can not cope with it yourself , please contact me for help . |
| 19 | A stressful circumstance is one with which you can not cope with successfully or believe you can not cope with successfully That 's the important thing . |
| 20 | A stressful circumstance is one with which you can not cope with successfully or believe you can not cope with successfully That 's the important thing . |
| 21 | ‘ If you do not know where you are then you 're quite likely to wander on to something you can not cope with . ’ |
| 22 | The former road-builder , now Field Marshal , Wade , with 6000 men , was despatched to Newcastle , prompting a notable pun by a local woman : ‘ Since we could not COPE with out present difficulties , we must WADE through them . ’ |
| 23 | Usually the two pilots who are on night duty sleep in the ambulance but the driver and medical orderly who also sleep in it had worked up a terrific ‘ fug ’ — ‘ Imshi ’ Mason and I felt we could not cope with the smell of unwashed feet , etc. , so we dragged the two stretchers out . ’ |
| 24 | Some of us try to propose and reason when we can not cope with another person 's emotions . |
| 25 | If our patients have problems we can not cope with , we usually say so ; we may then simply advise going elsewhere , or we may act as advocates to ensure that the issues are properly taken on by others . |
| 26 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 27 | However sceptical we may be of the claims of medicine and its practitioners , we do , as Kosa said , place our faith in them when we can not cope by ourselves . |
| 28 | Portsmouth and Liverpool drew 1–1 at Highbury , and the replay in Birmingham had to be put back when police said they could not cope with it the day before last week 's General Election . |
| 29 | A number of manors , such as Patching , complained repeatedly that they could not cope with such demands ; there is little evidence that they got any cuts . |
| 30 | If anyone believes for a moment that we should forget about the cause of asylum seekers , I ask them to read some of the evidence of people who fled from Chile , El Salvador , Burma and so many other places where they could not cope with the oppression against them . |