Example sentences of "could not go on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that . |
| 4 | Mr Kinnock could not go on ‘ inflicting his anger on the people of Hong Kong ’ . |
| 5 | Then , at a certain moment , I just could not go on with that any longer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Alice could not go on playing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But it could not go on for ever , both of them knew that . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | I can not … ’ but he could not go on because his voice was shaking with such rage . |
| 13 | She could not go on , and Ernest 's face fell . |
| 14 | Florrie could not go on . |
| 15 | The self-destruction of one partner meant that the games could not go on . |
| 16 | She took one step forward , then realized she could not go on . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I felt as if I could not go on . |
| 19 | This of course could not go on and she had no intention of staying . |
| 20 | He could not go on . |
| 21 | She too had had a call this day , and finally had told Mr Blaney in the shop that she was going , that she was unwell , could not go on . |
| 22 | It was burning , fraying at the edges , riddled with violent cancers of nationalism , spite and greed that could not go on without a climax for much longer . |
| 23 | Leith afterwards supposed she should have realised that that state of affairs could not go on indefinitely without someone getting hurt . |
| 24 | However , his co-chairman Lord Owen , appointed by the European Community , warned that peace talks could not go on forever , saying there would come a time when action had to be taken by the international community . |