Example sentences of "she could [adv] go [adv] " in BNC.

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1 She could not go up , only down .
2 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 .
3 She could not go on , and Ernest 's face fell .
4 She took one step forward , then realized she could not go on .
5 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 .
6 Clearly she could not go out through a locked door — so where is she ? ’
7 But she could not go home , given how she felt ; fit to throw a tantrum .
8 If only she could just go home , hide away and never have to see anyone again — but she had promised to stick with Paula and there would be all kinds of awkward questions and recriminations if she arrived home alone .
9 She wished she could just go back to bed and start the day all over again , only somehow making it turn out completely normal this time .
10 She could n't go through with it .
11 Yeah probably I think she 'll always be like it though , cos her mum 's just the same , she 's just like her mum , you know her mum got in a strop every day because she could n't go round , down the
12 She could n't go up West with him !
13 ‘ 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 . ’
14 Furthermore , she was reaching the point when she knew she could n't go on working with Beatrice and the others , deceiving them with her wrong-doings .
15 That was one of the reasons she loved him , but she could n't go on doing it indefinitely — swearing that this time he had gone too far and it was the end and then having to console him .
16 She could n't go on .
17 Then she breathed , ‘ You see , I had to — to put all my energies into hating you because — because — ’ She could n't go on .
18 She could n't go on but instead made a vague gesture with her hands .
19 She could n't go anywhere .
20 She could n't go any further forward .
21 but , then the next morning of course when Wendy got home she 'd been down my nephew 's looking after the kids for them and erm , and said we 've come to arrest you , and no , oh Rachael said oh mum there 's a police car pulled up outside , so she said , oh my god do n't tell me they 're wrong and it is Tracey , cos Tracey 's left home , she 's gone to live with her friend and erm , anyway , when Wendy got to the stairs she could n't go in , she could n't go any further and she said erm , when , when the policeman said Mrs I 've come to arrest you , she just about said Christ she said what have I done ?
22 She protested that she could n't go home , that she was n't allowed to hang around the house during the day , and Bunny said he did n't care where the hell she went as long as it was out of his sight .
23 She could n't go home for money .
24 But she could n't go back now ; she had to go on .
25 But she was more tired than she knew , and soon she began to wish that she had a suitcase to sit on ; but hers was on the rack in that tightly packed carriage , and she could n't go back for it .
26 She could n't go back and face them all — not now , not when Marianne would have told them all about her criminal father , doubtless revelling in every sad little detail , probably creating a few more just to spice the story up still more .
27 Outside the sun burned down ; there was very little shade apart from the awning and she could n't go back , not with that thing hanging there .
28 She could n't go back into the house either .
29 When it came to the front door , she found she could n't go in .
30 but , then the next morning of course when Wendy got home she 'd been down my nephew 's looking after the kids for them and erm , and said we 've come to arrest you , and no , oh Rachael said oh mum there 's a police car pulled up outside , so she said , oh my god do n't tell me they 're wrong and it is Tracey , cos Tracey 's left home , she 's gone to live with her friend and erm , anyway , when Wendy got to the stairs she could n't go in , she could n't go any further and she said erm , when , when the policeman said Mrs I 've come to arrest you , she just about said Christ she said what have I done ?
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