Example sentences of "could [adv] go [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could only go out there and do what I was doing before , which is … labouring . |
| 2 | The party could only go as far as the unions would allow and their influence was apparent at all levels . |
| 3 | And you could only go as far as the money would go , could n't you ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 6 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | Slowly she imagined taking one step after another until she reported that she could physically go no further because the slope of the ceiling was so steep . |
| 9 | So I could always go up there and I used there little drill for one thing and another in the first place and er built that premise for me there did and I did er |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | But she doubted it would go any further — well , could n't go any further as she was only staying the one night . |
| 12 | Though I could n't go so far as to say that service was included as all the waiters seemed interested in was getting the lights off so they could dance with Sorrel . |
| 13 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 14 | It could well go on forever unless one of two things happens , unless everybody guards themselves against giving information away , which as a matter of practice many will do , and many probably wo n't , or secondly that some legislation is brought about to make this an offence , and to treat it seriously . |