Example sentences of "could not bear " in BNC.
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| 1 | Days eating scraps because I could not bear to enter a shop , talk to another human being , have people see me . |
| 2 | She wanted to : Jay could not bear people suffering . |
| 3 | This is the Marmeladov who married his present wife — not that that did any good either — because he could not bear to see such suffering . |
| 4 | Quite how a man who could not bear to hurt a living thing after seeing the damage his childhood air-rifle did to a starling could serve as defence secretary is something of an enigma . |
| 5 | In the election of 1918 they could not bear it and both voted for the Labour Party . |
| 6 | People who could not bear it walked out . |
| 7 | She could not bear to think that he had taken all that pure wrathful zeal into marketing or insurance broking . |
| 8 | All the same , she could not bear to listen to the Sibelius concerto for some time afterwards . |
| 9 | It was funny , in a Lewis Carroll sort of way , and at least the result was passable , if only as a trade magazine , whereas the woman 's magazine had been beyond a joke and she could not bear to look at the end product . |
| 10 | She could not bear the claustrophobia of the place , which magnified the smallest incidents or most trivial remarks into giant horrors . |
| 11 | She could not bear dead bodies of any breed . |
| 12 | Not looking back the way they had come , because she could not bear to watch Joe . |
| 13 | I often thought her blindness was not entirely physical : she wanted finally to shut her eyes to the sorrows and miseries of the son she still adored , for she could not bear to see me suffering . |
| 14 | Those daily walks with her helped to calm my mind a little , but I could not bear the thought of writing poems again , not without Dana . |
| 15 | There was Bella , her body a crumpled heap on the floor , with injuries that Marie could not bear to visualize : ‘ Do n't be so daft ! ’ said Marie viciously to herself . |
| 16 | But when you were My Princess I could not bear to imagine you stained by me . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | She had given the instruction herself , saying she could not bear to see the person who had been the instrument through whom she had heard such infamous news . |
| 19 | Wilson could not bear to imagine the horror of such a death . |
| 20 | Their mouths were mere swollen wounds which they could not bear to stretch enough to admit the spout of the teapot . |
| 21 | Now that there was somebody else here , the thought of going back , the thought of the house and the valley being empty again — this time forever , I was sure of that — seemed so terrible I could not bear it . |
| 22 | I could not bear any imputation of disloyalty to my second husband . |
| 23 | Here I was , for some time , the favourite of Mrs. Simper , my lady 's woman , who could not bear the vulgar girls , and was happy in the attendance of a young woman of some education . |
| 24 | Then he could not bear it any longer and started breaking down the wall . |
| 25 | Besides , Hanka Zborowska could not bear to have Chaim Soutine in her house . |
| 26 | Her research fellowship was coming to an end , and she could not bear the prospect of ‘ hanging on ’ for another year as a freelance supervisor of undergraduates , sponging on her parents . |
| 27 | On the other hand , she loved the house , and could not bear to leave it . |
| 28 | It was somewhat similar with me ; the war was on , albeit far away , and I was missing it ; patriotism and duty did enter into the picture but I was chafing at the bit like Old Dobbin who could not bear to stay away from a fire ! |
| 29 | That night she cried herself to sleep wondering where she had gone wrong and thinking she could not bear it if she never saw Edward again . |
| 30 | I could not bear her loss . |