Example sentences of "could not go [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This of course could not go on and she had no intention of staying . |
| 32 | He could not go on . |
| 33 | She too had had a call this day , and finally had told Mr Blaney in the shop that she was going , that she was unwell , could not go on . |
| 34 | It was burning , fraying at the edges , riddled with violent cancers of nationalism , spite and greed that could not go on without a climax for much longer . |
| 35 | Leith afterwards supposed she should have realised that that state of affairs could not go on indefinitely without someone getting hurt . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | They are largely women who have got to the top in other careers and found they could not go any further . |
| 38 | 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 ? |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 41 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 42 | It rained hard , so that Breeze , whose shoes were all what she called ‘ well ventilated ’ , could not go out . |
| 43 | So I always had meat during the rainy months when I could not go out with a gun . |
| 44 | Clearly she could not go out through a locked door — so where is she ? ’ |
| 45 | This meant that any Gascon appealing against the verdict of one of the sub-seneschals could not go directly to Paris . |
| 46 | ‘ You could not go far wrong being bedded by an angel ! ’ |
| 47 | The CDU would not let economic planning be taken as far as the SPD favoured , farmers protested against cuts in agricultural subsidies and defence cuts could not go far because of fears of weakening NATO . |
| 48 | ‘ I was in the war , ’ the poppy-seller at Charing Cross said , to explain why he could not go along with the media insistence that this was a good news story . |
| 49 | ‘ The set-up was not quite right and I just could not go quicker on my second flying run whatever I did . |
| 50 | Sometimes we took food for Dr Sambataro too , as his wife was not well and could not go often , but we were never allowed to see him . |
| 51 | Not many years ago , economists expressed the view that inflation and high unemployment could not go together ; we have seen that they were wrong . |
| 52 | Since you could not go abroad you honeymooned on the south coast at resorts such as Bournemouth where there was barbed wire on the beaches . |
| 53 | I could not go there very often , however , for such an expedition cost a week 's salary . |
| 54 | But I could not go there without checking up on our dearly loved Temple . |
| 55 | She could not go back , because we had disposed of the business , along with her tools and much of her furniture , but not her fender , which would arrive at Hale-wood in due course . |
| 56 | I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times . |
| 57 | The desire of the Cubists to keep closely in touch with visual reality explains Picasso 's uneasiness about his Cadaquès paintings : clearly he could not go back to his earlier , more laborious methods of dealing with form , and yet at a single stroke he had carried the new technique suggested in the work of Braque to something very near complete abstraction . |
| 58 | I could not go in through the house because of the servants . |
| 59 | Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " . |
| 60 | But she could not go home , given how she felt ; fit to throw a tantrum . |