Example sentences of "[noun] could [not/n't] go [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 2 | Leith afterwards supposed she should have realised that that state of affairs could not go on indefinitely without someone getting hurt . |
| 3 | ‘ The pencil could not go fast enough over the paper , so quickly changed the scenes . ’ |
| 4 | I accept that the right hon. Gentleman could not go any further at that time , but is he aware that his argument that a change in the defence of provocation might allow for revenge killings is wrong and invalid because juries would not accept it in the case of revenge killings ? |
| 5 | However , his co-chairman Lord Owen , appointed by the European Community , warned that peace talks could not go on forever , saying there would come a time when action had to be taken by the international community . |
| 6 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |