Example sentences of "could not go [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The pencil could not go fast enough over the paper , so quickly changed the scenes . ’ |
| 2 | He could not go fast enough now to satisfy him . |
| 3 | He was a big fit man but he realised he could not go on much longer , and his iron resolve began to melt in the face of the powers of nature surrounding him . |
| 4 | ‘ The workload for both Barry Newbery and myself was tremendous , we both felt we could not go on much longer , and suggested that a third Designer be included on the team . ’ |
| 5 | However , his co-chairman Lord Owen , appointed by the European Community , warned that peace talks could not go on forever , saying there would come a time when action had to be taken by the international community . |
| 6 | Leith afterwards supposed she should have realised that that state of affairs could not go on indefinitely without someone getting hurt . |
| 7 | They are largely women who have got to the top in other careers and found they could not go any further . |
| 8 | I accept that the right hon. Gentleman could not go any further at that time , but is he aware that his argument that a change in the defence of provocation might allow for revenge killings is wrong and invalid because juries would not accept it in the case of revenge killings ? |
| 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 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 11 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 12 | ‘ You could not go far wrong being bedded by an angel ! ’ |
| 13 | I could not go there very often , however , for such an expedition cost a week 's salary . |
| 14 | Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " . |