Example sentences of "could not have borne " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mme Guérigny could not have borne such a thing . |
| 2 | She could not have borne to watch Betty sleazily slicing bread in her dressing-gown . |
| 3 | It would have appeared to be charity and she could not have borne that . |
| 4 | She could not have borne it if he were suddenly to change his mind and demand that she give the whole thing up . |
| 5 | He could not have borne a mirror in the room with him now , for fear of what he might see ; in his heart he knew that it would be unrecognisable , as he failed to recognise the turmoil of his own feelings as having anything to do with the self he had always known . |
| 6 | The one thing he could not have borne , the one thing he could not completely shut out from the fevered fringes of his mind , was the thought of the boy 's chill assessment of his father 's achievement and his friend 's . |
| 7 | If she were Oliver , she could not have borne to look her father in the face . |