Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you see , it was a rather exalted collaboration , and the work which was to ensue could not fail to be remarkably beautiful . |
| 2 | He could not bear to be away from Maura today . |
| 3 | The truth was that he could not bear to be so close to Chris and yet feel so distant . |
| 4 | Lydia thought moodily that she could n't hope to be as boring as Dr Wyn if she tried all night . |
| 5 | ‘ I could n't stand to be there . |
| 6 | He could n't continue to be so churlish in the face of Betty 's open-hearted goodwill . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | The couple had just got married and could n't bear to be apart . |
| 9 | no I 'm not no when I am I ca n't eat anything , if I was like that I just could n't bear to be even in the same room as anybody who 's eating , so no the urge of chocolate is possibly to do with fat |
| 10 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 11 | Marion whispered and turned away because she could n't bear to be there when something died , when all the love that she had bottled up inside herself evaporated like liquid left out in the sun . |