Example sentences of "could [not/n't] go " 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 | What did emerge though was a personable and seemingly deeply caring young man , claiming not to understand why sportsmen could not go to South Africa but could go to India , which imported South African gold . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that . |
5 | She could not go . |
6 | ‘ 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 . |
7 | Mr Kinnock could not go on ‘ inflicting his anger on the people of Hong Kong ’ . |
8 | He looked awfully amazed when mother said I could not go with him to see his books . |
9 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
10 | We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship . |
11 | The doctrine of original sin and baptismal regeneration meant that an unbaptised infant could not go to heaven . |
12 | He did not know how to tell her that he was very , very sorry for being small , and for snivelling , and for ruining her life so that she could not go to America to be a film-star . |
13 | There were clear lines beyond which he and the other senior figures in the Party could not go without forfeiting the support of the members and the ordinary voters and , in appearing to have countenanced the idea of an emergency coalition with the SDLP , Beattie had crossed those lines and he paid the price . |
14 | I could not go to it but they showed it on television . |
15 | Then , at a certain moment , I just could not go on with that any longer . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | They are largely women who have got to the top in other careers and found they could not go any further . |
18 | She could not go up , only down . |
19 | They could not go side by side . |
20 | He could not go through it all again . |
21 | I could not go there very often , however , for such an expedition cost a week 's salary . |
22 | I could not go inside B.P. , as I no longer had a security pass . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Lachlan was being left in charge of the castle , and Lady Marion could not go to the ceremony , for the baby was near its time . |
25 | Robert Carnwath feared that the Act was so confused that we could not go to court with a realistic chance of winning . |
26 | One farmer was livid that he could not go into his local National Park and chop wood for his barbecue . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | ‘ The pencil could not go fast enough over the paper , so quickly changed the scenes . ’ |
29 | But I could not go there without checking up on our dearly loved Temple . |
30 | 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 . |