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Example sentences of "[pron] could not go [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I felt as if I could not go on .
2	I could not go beyond .
3	So I always had meat during the rainy months when I could not go out with a gun .
4	I could not go there very often , however , for such an expedition cost a week 's salary .
5	But I could not go there without checking up on our dearly loved Temple .
6	I could not go in through the house because of the servants .
7	I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times .
8	She could not go up , only down .
9	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 .
10	She could not go on , and Ernest 's face fell .
11	She took one step forward , then realized she could not go on .
12	She could not go back , because we had disposed of the business , along with her tools and much of her furniture , but not her fender , which would arrive at Hale-wood in due course .
13	Clearly she could not go out through a locked door — so where is she ? ’
14	But she could not go home , given how she felt ; fit to throw a tantrum .
15	‘ You could not go far wrong being bedded by an angel ! ’
16	Since you could not go abroad you honeymooned on the south coast at resorts such as Bournemouth where there was barbed wire on the beaches .
17	‘ 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 . ’
18	They are largely women who have got to the top in other careers and found they could not go any further .
19	Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " .
20	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 .
21	He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that .
22	But it could not go on for ever , both of them knew that .
23	He could not go fast enough now to satisfy him .
24	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 .
25	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 .
26	I can not … ’ but he could not go on because his voice was shaking with such rage .
27	He could not go on .
28	We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision .
29	The desire of the Cubists to keep closely in touch with visual reality explains Picasso 's uneasiness about his Cadaquès paintings : clearly he could not go back to his earlier , more laborious methods of dealing with form , and yet at a single stroke he had carried the new technique suggested in the work of Braque to something very near complete abstraction .
30	‘ I was in the war , ’ the poppy-seller at Charing Cross said , to explain why he could not go along with the media insistence that this was a good news story .