Example sentences of "[that] i [vb mod] [not/n't] bear " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I cry , he gets so angry that I ca n't bear it ’ , said another , ‘ and I go away and find somewhere by myself where I can go on crying ’ . |
| 2 | It 's just that I ca n't bear to see someone like you , Ruth , made miserable so worthlessly , and until you get some feeling of respect for yourself you 're never going to snap out of it , and you 'll go on being used as a doormat . |
| 3 | But I know only too well that you do not love me , that you are marrying me for Papa 's dollars , and that I can not bear . |
| 4 | ‘ And the ridiculous thing was , of course , that I could n't bear to tell her about Lalage and Arthur . |
| 5 | You see , I suddenly felt that I could n't bear it , not knowing where they were going to be for the next three and a half weeks ( though in retrospect I doubt whether the location of the groom much perturbed me ) . |
| 6 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
| 7 | Syl 's oboe was another of the things about him that I could n't bear . |
| 8 | How could I have possibly explained without hurting you that I could n't bear to be near you , because you no longer felt like my mother ? |
| 9 | I 've got a very stubborn streak and I discovered that I could n't bear people telling me what I could and could n't eat . |
| 10 | The faces grinning from the tatty punk regalia looked so depraved and hollow-eyed that I could not bear to think of my American blues friends calling them ‘ sir ’ . |