Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] could go " in BNC.

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1 I am not writing to discuss the subject of inflation although give a soap-box to stand on I could go on for ever .
2 At first I could find no cause , I panicked , if I could go blind in one eye without a cause , perhaps I could go blind in the other .
3 There are numerous examples of the poor quality of court-appointed lawyers ; John Young went to his death even though his trial lawyer had signed an affidavit admitting he had been ill-prepared at trial due to drug use , the recent break-up of his marriage and the discovery of his own homosexuality ; another attorney had his breath checked by the judge for signs of alcohol , another was found to be in contempt of court after arriving back from lunch drunk … and so I could go on .
4 If so I could go into digs . ’
5 So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none .
6 So I could go on .
7 The fifteenth so I could go and that 's on a Sunday or a Saturday ?
8 So I could go Monday , sixteenth Monday , yes ?
9 I was whirling it round and round — I was getting tireder and tireder and wondering how long I could go on …
10 Perhaps she could go and find Fräulein Schultz , the German governess ?
11 Perhaps she could go down next time there was a one-day match and drive him to Taunton herself , interview some of the club 's officers , work something up .
12 Perhaps you could go for a walk each day ( with or without a dog ) ; you could go swimming or ride a bicycle — it does n't really matter what you do as long as you do it regularly .
13 Perhaps you could go and fight in one of those wars they 're always having somewhere and lose yourself in the din of battle .
14 I said oh goodness yes , that 's why they bought a leather one so she could go on it .
15 ‘ Anyway , I did n't give it to you so you could go drippy on me .
16 So you could go on reviewing and reworking the problem .
17 So you could go to that .
18 Perhaps we could go back still further , to the event of her own birth , and even into an intra-uterine existence , for it is at this time that the ovaries and all the eggs are formed in the female .
19 Perhaps we could go there for a drink later ?
20 Perhaps we could go to the pictures or something ? ’
21 ‘ I know it 's a terribly Yank thing to do but while I 'm here , perhaps we could go and do some antique shops , yes ? ’
22 Yes … well , perhaps we could go back to the study .
23 She looked at the healthy gloss of black hair springing from a widow 's peak , the thickly lashed eyes under winged brows , the mouth that could be austere and cruel but was now warm and sensuous , and said thickly , ‘ Perhaps we could go into the garden ? ’
24 Well that 's what I was thinking , perhaps we could go with somebody somewhere .
25 ‘ We decided to make a commitment and moved down to Malton in North Yorkshire so we could go to Bible College .
26 Did you know Jehovah 's organizations always changes , not with it , but to combat it that way it comes to work , it keeps us alive , it keeps us on our toes , and so we could go on and on in saying well look keep away , stay awake and do everything that we should and , and we can stand here for the rest of the talk saying well do it , do it , do it but that 's easy for me to do that is n't it ?
27 WHEN I WAS GROWING UP , the boys I hung around with used to have competitions to see how long they could go without changing their underpants .
28 But they 're worried that if they turn it down they could go to the bottom of the housing list .
29 Suddenly he could go no further .
30 If he liked the house so much he could go and live in it himself and relive his happy memories .
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