Example sentences of "not [verb] to let [pron] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Arabella Buckley , with a murderer who was not ‘ one of us ’ almost under her thumb , was not going to let him go so easily . |
| 2 | Ceauşescu did not mean to let it come again . |
| 3 | They could not afford to let it fall apart . |
| 4 | Last night , Ena Gilmour , Raymond Gilmour 's mother , of Hawthorn Avenue , Johnstone , said : ‘ I will allow myself to be slightly optimistic , I do n't put it any stronger than that because I have been let down before and I do n't want to let myself go too far this time . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't plan to let it go that far . |
| 6 | She was firing again ; she could n't afford to let them get closer , she would n't be able to bear it . |
| 7 | In fact , if anything he was even more remote and distant now than he had been before their weekend , as if he had n't meant to let her get so close and was frantically clawing back space . |
| 8 | ‘ You know better than most , Naylor , that there were some nights when I could n't bear to let him go home at all ! ’ |