Example sentences of "can [not/n't] go [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | So I ca n't go away in the autumn now cos that 's just when everybody 's start you know raring to go and wanting to get started on next year 's programme . |
2 | You ca n't go away on holiday , Helen 's got to be here on the day . |
3 | There 's a story of mine ca n't go away . |
4 | Literary , second-sighted , sick , she holds out a hand to him : he clasps it , but then decides he ca n't go on . |
5 | That 's why I ca n't go on with it . |
6 | After all , we have been reaping rewards from the vegetable garden for months : the soil ca n't go on and on providing if its own storehouse is not replenished . |
7 | ‘ This ca n't go on much longer , ’ the Poles hopefully assured the Germans . |
8 | This ca n't go on . |
9 | I agree she has to learn , I agree she ca n't go on like this , but it is n't naughtiness . |
10 | They ca n't go on making the same widget day after day . |
11 | You ca n't go on like this . |
12 | He said I ca n't go on living here , not on my own like . |
13 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
14 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
15 | As Lorelei Lee said immemorably in Diamonds Are a Girl 's Best Friend , a girl ca n't go on laughing all the time . |
16 | ‘ No , no , we ca n't go on and on . |
17 | You ca n't go on putting it up , year in , year out . |
18 | ‘ It ca n't go on like this . |
19 | 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 . ’ |
20 | 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 . ’ |
21 | She heard me practising at home one day and said , ‘ This ca n't go on . ’ |
22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
23 | ‘ I ca n't go on , I got to sit down , ’ she gasped , collapsing heavily on the grass . |
24 | Do n't you see we ca n't go on like this ? ’ |
25 | We ca n't go on like this . |
26 | And then she began : ‘ Agnes , this situation ca n't go on . |
27 | You can see yourself it ca n't go on . ’ |
28 | At first interview she said the strain of looking after her mother-in-law was considerable , that it was putting a strain on her marriage in that she and her husband were always quarrelling these days , and that she had got to the point when ‘ I feel I ca n't go on any longer ’ . |
29 | Some doctors have also been known to recommend Yoga to patients coming to them because they feel they ‘ just ca n't cope ’ or ‘ just ca n't go on ’ . |
30 | ‘ We ca n't go on calling him Fido , ’ she said , that being the Grimbles ' choice . |