Hearing those sounds was more than his wife could bear.

Back at the hotel that night, my wife could bear it no longer.

However, my wife could not bear to be away from her home town.

In private the doctor had told Brian there was no reason why his wife should not bear strong, healthy children.

And who was to say our father might not prefer the son his new wife had borne him?

He was arrested, as his wife and all others bearing the family name had been.

His wives - he went through two - could not bear it, either.

We do not know if either wife of Alexander will bear a boy.

It is also said that his wife couldn't bear to leave their dog, Wonder.

Men decide all sexual matters, down to the number of children a wife will bear.