Example sentences of "n't go on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Literary , second-sighted , sick , she holds out a hand to him : he clasps it , but then decides he ca n't go on . |
| 2 | That 's why I ca n't go on with it . |
| 3 | After all , we have been reaping rewards from the vegetable garden for months : the soil ca n't go on and on providing if its own storehouse is not replenished . |
| 4 | ‘ This ca n't go on much longer , ’ the Poles hopefully assured the Germans . |
| 5 | This ca n't go on . |
| 6 | I agree she has to learn , I agree she ca n't go on like this , but it is n't naughtiness . |
| 7 | They ca n't go on making the same widget day after day . |
| 8 | You ca n't go on like this . |
| 9 | I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live . |
| 10 | ‘ You think , ’ she began , dabbing at her eyes as she came back with the pad , ‘ you think someone — someone killed my Charlie because he would n't go on — go on doing these jobs for them ? ’ |
| 11 | He said I ca n't go on living here , not on my own like . |
| 12 | Now she says that she wo n't go on for ever . |
| 13 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 15 | As Lorelei Lee said immemorably in Diamonds Are a Girl 's Best Friend , a girl ca n't go on laughing all the time . |
| 16 | She need n't go on making him feel guilty . |
| 17 | He could n't go on seeing her in the circumstances . |
| 18 | ‘ No , no , we ca n't go on and on . |
| 19 | ‘ I should n't go on , Harris , if I were you . |
| 20 | You ca n't go on putting it up , year in , year out . |
| 21 | ‘ It ca n't go on like this . |
| 22 | One person who claimed to have witnessed her collapse in the recording studio said : ‘ The poor kid just kept sobbing and saying , ‘ I ca n't go on , I ca n't take the pressure . ’ |
| 23 | I could n't go on without it . |
| 24 | I felt stifled , so one day , right in the middle of a huge novel by Theodore Dreiser , I stood up and said : ‘ No , I ca n't go on . ’ |
| 25 | She heard me practising at home one day and said , ‘ This ca n't go on . ’ |
| 26 | Do n't go on too long about the paper , or you 'll put your foot right in it with Sefton , one way or another . |
| 27 | ‘ Granny came up one day and saw her , and she said , ‘ You ca n't go on like this : I 'm taking the boy back with me . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't go on , I got to sit down , ’ she gasped , collapsing heavily on the grass . |
| 29 | Do n't you see we ca n't go on like this ? ’ |
| 30 | We ca n't go on like this . |