Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] could [not/n't] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the door was open it could n't move , so I could n't go down on it . |
| 2 | So she could n't go out to work cos she 'd got young girls to bring up so they went to the social and the social turned round and said to them before we give you any money you 've got ta spend all this bloody redundancy you 've got ta have used all your savings , including the kids savings , and you 've got ta have nothing ! |
| 3 | ‘ If she married Mr. Gordon she 'd live at Longreen , so she could still be our Brown Owl , ’ argued Anita , ‘ but if she married somebody else and lived away she could n't go on being . ’ |
| 4 | Clearly she could not go out through a locked door — so where is she ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well I could n't go to the bottom of the table because of the Eeeuk ! |
| 7 | I co I could n't I could n't go to work Monday and Friday , Monday to Friday and then spend all the weekend in the house and then just go to work Monday to Friday again , and do that week in and week out . |
| 8 | I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair , I mean well she could n't go the week aha I do n't young enough yeah , about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some , I do n't know , she 's alright , I said yes she 'll be alright , I said I 'm going to start cooking so she said I got to take these Heather , I said well they 'll travel better in there , your father said you know Jane he said if you 'd given her a hand |
| 9 | Well you could n't go nursing till you were about eighteen or nineteen or something , if not more . |
| 10 | She just knew that they we she could n't she could n't go and get any you know , anything on H P or whatever . |
| 11 | Right I put this together ah very quickly just before you came in , I thought it would be useful to get some feedback on the education the two educational events that have taken place so far , now unfortunately I could n't go to Topping Printing but you were there Ann |
| 12 | Then she could n't go so I did n't go on my own . |
| 13 | Oh I had about a shilling pocket money I think , although they used , they 'd fine you , they 'd stop money off you if you were late if you were a quarter of an hour late you could n't go in and erm until , and then you 'd got to explain to your mums , well that you were some money short you see , why is this , and we had to say well we were a bit late getting in when you started out soon enough you see . |
| 14 | So I always had meat during the rainy months when I could not go out with a gun . |
| 15 | A five I do n't count , I only count the ends when I got to the point where I could n't go any further . |
| 16 | There was a time when you could n't go through a week , perhaps could n't even going through a day , without hearing the British National Anthem somewhere . |
| 17 | There was a period in that decade where you could n't go anywhere without seeing The Stranglers . |
| 18 | Of course the regular men they were kept on or when if it was a rainy day when they could n't go out and just do some odd jobs in the building say , when it was a a rainy day . |
| 19 | Although he was hitting the ball all over the place in practice , Seve was figuring out which side of the fairways to miss on a lot of holes , and places where he could n't go at all . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |