Example sentences of "could [adv] bear [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps one of the reasons she had gone from one man to another was that she could not bear to lose the excitement and flattery of the early stages of love . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Finding she could not bear to face the police who might still be in the environs of Canons ' Court , she decided on the traffic bridge . |
| 4 | Days eating scraps because I could not bear to enter a shop , talk to another human being , have people see me . |
| 5 | Wilson could not bear to imagine the horror of such a death . |
| 6 | She could hardly bear to think the thought , but it did seem to her that anyone who had lived for so many years with her mother could be excused for a certain lack of joie de vivre . |
| 7 | She could n't bear to open the door and see them trying to cover their embarrassment at her entrance . |
| 8 | ‘ No , ’ she breathed , looking away from him because she could n't bear to see the expression in his face . |
| 9 | But he had been there with Montaine and he could n't bear to see the place again — not then . |
| 10 | It was Saturday so they had put up the green fee from four and sixpence to seven and six and she could n't bear to waste the money . |
| 11 | Jessamy prized her privacy far too much , she could n't bear to have a pack of journalists prying into every corner of her life . |
| 12 | I could n't bear to have the television on either — I just sat there in silence , trying to work it all out . |