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 .
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