Example sentences of "could not go [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not go up , only down . |
| 2 | Ministers once again ducked the question of recognising Macedonia , even though Lord Carrington is believed to have said there was no practical reason why it could not go ahead . |
| 3 | On 28 June the Bank decided that the restructuring could not go ahead and that BCCI would have to be shut down . |
| 4 | Mr Connelly , of Chantry Green , Ipswich , was told the operation could not go ahead because the five intensive care beds were already full . |
| 5 | As a consequence the original idea of installing an additional floor in the building could not go ahead at present . |
| 6 | Despite some progress in the negotiations on deploying UN troops , including Croatia 's acceptance of their being stationed in areas of current conflict in the republic , Vance reported to the UN that deployment could not go ahead until a ceasefire was observed . |
| 7 | But , where the clause did not contain that useful provision , an awkward party ran no risk in simply refusing to appoint a valuer , with the result that the reference could not go ahead and there was no way of obtaining a valuation . |
| 8 | She had advised that the case could not go ahead , and Mr McTear went to bed , said Mr Fyfe . |
| 9 | ‘ The pencil could not go fast enough over the paper , so quickly changed the scenes . ’ |
| 10 | He could not go fast enough now to satisfy him . |
| 11 | He simply could not go around labelling people , and moving them about as if they were chess pieces , just to suit his own ends . |
| 12 | I could not go beyond . |
| 13 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 14 | But a few minutes after he was launched into the speech he came to a dead stop , stared strangely at the gallery in silence , and could not go on . |
| 15 | He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that . |
| 16 | Mr Kinnock could not go on ‘ inflicting his anger on the people of Hong Kong ’ . |
| 17 | Then , at a certain moment , I just could not go on with that any longer . |
| 18 | Arsenal , having won the Cup and two Championships in four years , could not go on for much longer with the same team , and in 1933 Chapman 's major concern was to find replacements to keep the club on top . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Alice could not go on playing . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But it could not go on for ever , both of them knew that . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | I can not … ’ but he could not go on because his voice was shaking with such rage . |
| 25 | She could not go on , and Ernest 's face fell . |
| 26 | Florrie could not go on . |
| 27 | The self-destruction of one partner meant that the games could not go on . |
| 28 | She took one step forward , then realized she could not go on . |
| 29 | But in 1869 Uncle Elias , who belonged to this secret group , suddenly left America with all their papers , and so the group could not go on . |
| 30 | I felt as if I could not go on . |