Example sentences of "not go on [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | I need not go on because I know this will be familiar to all of us . |
2 | I can not … ’ but he could not go on because his voice was shaking with such rage . |
3 | Limited interests led to fewer social contacts ( one can not go on and on talking about nothing ) , and there was no doubt that her aural memory-bank was well in the red . |
4 | Just a few months ago , only the most rabid anti-royalist thought that the monarchy would not go on and on . |
5 | What Hamilton could see was that the talents of Warner Bros had combined to produce a film that was not so much about the Legion as ‘ about the kind of short-sighted , uninformed and well-enough-meaning men who have to be given an understanding of what democracy really is so that they will not go on and on providing tools for such legions ’ . |
6 | But it was safer if Nona did not go on and dig this out of him . |
7 | This of course could not go on and she had no intention of staying . |
8 | It is obvious that things can not go on as they are . |
9 | It is surely obvious that we can not go on as we are as we pollute the world and as poverty increases , along with violence , vandalism and random destruction , more of it at Gateshead last night apparently . |