Example sentences of "can [not/n't] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 2 | We can not go back on this pledge , ’ Mr Benn said . |
| 3 | ‘ Under no circumstances will any of those competitors who have been chosen be told they can not go . ’ |
| 4 | I know I can not go unless you let me , please let me go . |
| 5 | After all , when racism takes the form of violence , they ca n't fail to recognise it as an attack on themselves , and part of a value system they can not go along with . |
| 6 | Let me send my offerings where I can not go ; my pains to comfort sufferers whom I will never see ; and my sacrifices to help plant the Cross in lands that know not yet of the Crucified . |
| 7 | Yesterday , Mr Baron said that strict justice demanded that ‘ the European Parliament can not go on being regarded as a marginal institution , able only to speak but not to take decisions ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ He was a shadow of his former self and a boxer can not go into the ring semi-fit . |
| 9 | ‘ We should emphasise that we do have opinions on what is happening , but in my place as an official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs I can not go into comments without having all-inclusive information and orders in that regard . ’ |
| 10 | I can not go back , I know they would reclaim me . ’ |
| 11 | The main thing about a hallway , however , is that you can not go anywhere in the house without passing through it . |
| 12 | You can not go to a Franciscan centre without coming face to face with Francis ' emphasis on the cross . |
| 13 | It is based on the assumption that the sacred is better than the secular , that the Church is essentially European and only universal by implication , that celibacy is better than marriage , that belief can not go hand in hand with doubt , that the clerical state is more sublime than the lay , and hence that women are excluded from belonging at the level at which this belonging is most valued . |
| 14 | You can not go out . |
| 15 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 16 | I can not go to her , she does not realise , she can never understand . |
| 17 | I am ill , I can not go on . ’ |
| 18 | This is because of the theological stance of some that people who have taken their own lives can not go to heaven , but instead go to hell eternally because the sin is viewed as such a serious one . |
| 19 | ‘ Comrade Vajda , ’ he said , ‘ you can not go on studying two imperialistic languages . |
| 20 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 21 | I take him at his word , for I can not go to see for myself , not being male . |
| 22 | If I can not go to my own home , let me have a home in some country where my people will not die so fast . |
| 23 | In many areas , the split is not into a clear cut one of those for and against , but often includes middle groups who are sympathetic to some of the ideas of Liberation Theology but can not go all the way with it . |
| 24 | The present idiotic trends can not go on forever , and there could soon be drastic changes . |
| 25 | Like a grow-bag , however , they can not go on producing their rich harvests of vegetable crops such as celery and carrots for ever , since once the peat has all wasted away , poor acid subsoils , especially clays , are often all that remain beneath . |
| 26 | However , the ordinary member of the public can not go around arresting cyclists and homeless persons and so on under section 25 . |
| 27 | I can not go into detail on the issues which members of one of those movements — the environmentalists — hold to be most vital . |
| 28 | In essence they are saying : ‘ Beyond this point you can not go ! ’ |
| 29 | The popular appeal of proportions and percentages is probably precisely because people understand that they can not go below 0 or above 1 ; the boundaries set a frame of reference in which people can interpret a particular result . |
| 30 | I still can not go to a service , nor say the Creed . |