Example sentences of "could [not/n't] go " in BNC.

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31 He was a big fit man but he realised he could not go on much longer , and his iron resolve began to melt in the face of the powers of nature surrounding him .
32 It rained hard , so that Breeze , whose shoes were all what she called ‘ well ventilated ’ , could not go out .
33 They trusted her for it ; an outlier psion could not go running to Them and reveal who hired her and for what reason .
34 But she could not go home , given how she felt ; fit to throw a tantrum .
35 She could not cope with lifts , and she could not go into the garden shed in case the door closed upon her .
36 On 28 June the Bank decided that the restructuring could not go ahead and that BCCI would have to be shut down .
37 ‘ You could not go far wrong being bedded by an angel ! ’
38 Then she realized that the older woman could not go without Joe to transport her , and she wondered what in earth she was to do .
39 The letter must have said that she could not go to the Mansion again .
40 Such a challenge could not go unheeded , particularly as it departed from the usual array of Parliamentary or constitutional procedures .
41 Mr Connelly , of Chantry Green , Ipswich , was told the operation could not go ahead because the five intensive care beds were already full .
42 This meant that any Gascon appealing against the verdict of one of the sub-seneschals could not go directly to Paris .
43 Alice could not go on playing .
44 The same realization came to the King , pushed towards his precipice by Hardinge harshly telling him that he could not go on without a decision .
45 And she had somehow thought that he would have known that she could not go .
46 This was a rebuff which could not go unpunished , especially since the income of the lord of Deols was reputed to be equal to the ordinary revenues of Normandy .
47 Fleury would have liked to have gone , too , but both he and Harry could not go at the same time ; someone had to stay behind to fight off the sepoys .
48 But it could not go on for ever , both of them knew that .
49 When he and his brothers left this world , I could not go with him , but he gave me the gift of never growing old .
50 Dey could not go de course
51 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 .
52 ‘ The workload for both Barry Newbery and myself was tremendous , we both felt we could not go on much longer , and suggested that a third Designer be included on the team . ’
53 I can not … ’ but he could not go on because his voice was shaking with such rage .
54 He could not go near the lights for the Men would see him ; so he would seek the most darkness — away from the Zoo and over towards the blackness of the Park centre .
55 She could not go on , and Ernest 's face fell .
56 Florrie could not go on .
57 I told him that I could not go on behalf of any party , but that I would go on behalf of the government if he came to power , since I knew the situation and could be of some help .
58 We could not go for a walk that afternoon .
59 So I always had meat during the rainy months when I could not go out with a gun .
60 Clearly she could not go out through a locked door — so where is she ? ’
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