Example sentences of "not stand the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After I stopped eating factory-farmed meat I now can not stand the feeling of eating flesh . |
| 2 | I used to like giving poetry readings , but in the end I had to give up , for I could not stand the socializing afterwards , as if my poetry had just been the excuse for a drinking spree à la Dylan Thomas . |
| 3 | I could not stand the ridiculous questions people came and posed about my work : ‘ But how do you find such interesting subjects for your poems , Mr Kirkup ? ’ |
| 4 | Many owners can not stand the thought of their animal going without sustenance for two or three days at a time , but the dog will inevitably eat when it is hungry enough . |
| 5 | For example , they can not stand the well-off , pushy , pleased-with-themselves , Tory young . |
| 6 | That meant that they could not stand the Central Office youths involved in the nuts and bolts of the campaign . |
| 7 | But I could not stand the humiliation of crossing the Allenby Bridge — at my age , being stripped and searched by a Zionist , Jew , a Pole , a Russian or a Romanian who is living in my country , in my home , asking me questions and searching me . |
| 8 | The central character , Fonda 's part , is a writer of television commercials who can not stand the pressure of the effect it is having on his wife Sally ( played by Susan Strasberg ) and their marriage . |
| 9 | Before long he ‘ could not stand the horrid hotels all by myself … |
| 10 | Severe headache sometimes and the eyes can not stand the light . |
| 11 | Bursting , pulsating headache , pressure and burning on the vertex and the senses are overwrought ; worse ( < ) noise , can not stand the touch of the clothes , especially about the neck . |
| 12 | I remember one lad , Nobby Clark , who could not stand the pace . |
| 13 | Practolol and benoxaprofen show , however , that such a cosy partnership not only can not stand the strain of a disaster , but also leads to a complete paralysis of action in the resultant crisis . |
| 14 | Usually I keep two buckets full of water but that 's no good in winter because they are plastic and will not stand the frost . |
| 15 | Dating practices that have grown up as our ‘ permissive society ’ has developed will not stand the test of scriptural reasoning or even common sense . |
| 16 | Our minds could not stand the constant battering of immediate reaction to the myriad perceptions to which we are subject all the time . |
| 17 | But a factory job was out because she could not stand the noise , and her preference for a more intellectual activity ‘ is rather pitiful in view of the girl 's lack of general education and the nature of her former illness ’ . |
| 18 | Vincent is hiding something that can not stand the light . ’ |
| 19 | Missionaries live in abnormal and difficult situations and the natural love of a human heart will not stand the test . |
| 20 | The Maggot referred to himself as a ‘ good old country boy ’ which description provoked Ellen , who could not stand the sight of him , to comment that John Maggovertski was to country what the serpent was to Eden . |
| 21 | He offered me his spare bed for the night , but I could not stand the stench of the creek , and I wanted to make an early start on the work I had to do on Wavebreaker , so I caught the bus to McIllvanney 's boatyard . |
| 22 | Earlier , he was accused of insulting the Africans by holding his nose because he could not stand the smell . |
| 23 | Earlier , he was accused of insulting the Africans by holding his nose because he could not stand the smell . |
| 24 | It is a strange thing , and you will find it more so in our way of life , that some people can not stand the sight of beauty . |
| 25 | She could not stand the thought of having a she-cat which would one day give birth to a large litter in her nice clean home and she did not wait to find out whether or not she-cats could be neutered . |
| 26 | Just as adherents of astrology , when predicted events fail to appear , find reasons from within the scheme of astrology for the failure , so some apologists for psychoanalysis find reasons why their hypotheses and predictions do not stand the test . |
| 27 | The new upheaval was too much for him ; his heart could not stand the strain . ’ |
| 28 | Sadly , the underlying amateurishness of the organization could not stand the strain and the Guild disintegrated in 1888 . |
| 29 | I remind him that there are examples of states coming together — as they have done in the Common Market — but then having to co-exist so closely that they can not stand the sight of one another and begin to fall apart . |
| 30 | We believe that it is not fair , it is not practical , and it will not stand the test of time . |