Example sentences of "can [not/n't] go " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ You know I ca n't go back . |
| 32 | Well it 's fairly obvious that you ca n't go back to the plant , in n it ? ’ agreed his platinum blonde flatmate Deirdre . |
| 33 | ‘ You know I ca n't go buying her nothing ! ’ |
| 34 | ‘ We ca n't go wasting glass . |
| 35 | But I ca n't go having my place turned into a fever ward . |
| 36 | ‘ I ca n't go back , ’ Dot said . |
| 37 | ‘ No , no , we ca n't go on and on . |
| 38 | Remember to rub the right date off with a copper coin of the realm or you ca n't go anywhere . |
| 39 | Just shows you ca n't go by appearances . |
| 40 | ‘ We ca n't go in , can we ? ’ |
| 41 | Give it a good-sized pot , regular watering and feeding and the occasional leaf shine and you ca n't go wrong . |
| 42 | You ca n't go on putting it up , year in , year out . |
| 43 | ‘ It ca n't go on like this . |
| 44 | I try to babysit for different people ; sometimes I 'm so embarrassed I ca n't go back to a place . |
| 45 | Eventually , at tea time , I tell Nicola 's mother that I ca n't go to India because I 'm starting a course at university . |
| 46 | I mean , I can swim or cycle , but I ca n't go to aerobics or do those kind of things , because I 'd feel too self-conscious . |
| 47 | But now I 've been here nine times and I ca n't go sightseeing . |
| 48 | One person who claimed to have witnessed her collapse in the recording studio said : ‘ The poor kid just kept sobbing and saying , ‘ I ca n't go on , I ca n't take the pressure . ’ |
| 49 | I felt stifled , so one day , right in the middle of a huge novel by Theodore Dreiser , I stood up and said : ‘ No , I ca n't go on . ’ |
| 50 | She heard me practising at home one day and said , ‘ This ca n't go on . ’ |
| 51 | I 'm afraid I ca n't subscribe to the theory that man should always be ‘ bloody , bold and resolute ’ ; but rather , I confess , that it 's very comforting to lean on you sometimes … more especially as I 've a funny instinct that if I follow your ways I ca n't go wrong , whereas my own existence is apt to be hardening , as you can see that it must be . |
| 52 | ‘ I ca n't go out with a Tory ! ’ he virtually wailed . |
| 53 | ‘ Granny came up one day and saw her , and she said , ‘ You ca n't go on like this : I 'm taking the boy back with me . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ I ca n't go back . |
| 55 | ‘ And you ca n't go without shoes , I 've told you before . |
| 56 | ‘ I ca n't go on , I got to sit down , ’ she gasped , collapsing heavily on the grass . |
| 57 | Do n't you see we ca n't go on like this ? ’ |
| 58 | You ca n't go wrong with anything shaped like a noodle . |
| 59 | ‘ You ca n't go in there , sir . |
| 60 | My God , we ca n't go under to a shower like that — we 'll never be able to show our faces again ! ’ |