Example sentences of "could [not/n't] go [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He simply could not go around labelling people , and moving them about as if they were chess pieces , just to suit his own ends . |
| 2 | Alice could not go on playing . |
| 3 | You could n't go around looking like Gwen Evans and hope to remain anonymous . |
| 4 | I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live . |
| 5 | Simply I had known that I could n't go on living with my mother . |
| 6 | But he could n't go on pretending once the school asked him to leave . |
| 7 | We could n't go on pretending that the first forty-seven years of Alex 's life had n't happened . |
| 8 | He could n't go on reading . |
| 9 | He could n't go on seeing her in the circumstances . |
| 10 | After all , he could n't go on driving for ever , he 'd just drive straight into another ocean , and that was what he was trying to get away from , was n't it , the ocean ? |
| 11 | I could n't go on speculating on the might have-beens of Stavanger 's life , for there was work to do . |
| 12 | Cal did n't turn round from the front seat , but Mrs Fry said , ‘ We could n't go on playing Scrabble in the rain when we knew you 'd gone off like that , and your parents sounded so dreadful on the phone . |
| 13 | Furthermore , she was reaching the point when she knew she could n't go on working with Beatrice and the others , deceiving them with her wrong-doings . |
| 14 | But perhaps it was n't as bad as it looked , and in any case one could n't go on sitting here , being stared at by the whole of St Petrock's-on-Sea while Chignell waved smelling salts under one 's nose . |
| 15 | That was one of the reasons she loved him , but she could n't go on doing it indefinitely — swearing that this time he had gone too far and it was the end and then having to console him . |