Example sentences of "they [modal v] [not/n't] let me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ They would n't let me do anything , ’ Nails said aggressively , and with a fair amount of truth . |
2 | And an answer has come up , with no , because they would n't let me do biology , you see . |
3 | They would n't let me do a thing . |
4 | Thus the daughter of one mother who drank asked to go to live with her grandmother , in her well-ordered ‘ nice ’ home : ‘ but they would n't let me go . |
5 | I was only sixteen ; they would n't let me go on a world tour . |
6 | I was eating my tea that afternoon — they would n't let me go too — and I got called over to the Centre [ the prison officers ' operational centre within the prison ] . |
7 | And er I was er one that was sorted out to go , but they would n't let me go because er I could n't get b they could n't get me back to work for seven o'clock on Monday morning . |
8 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
9 | I says I 'm gon na stop with me father and they said well , we 're sorry to lose you but we know this trade 's know good to you and we hope that you 'll stay with your dad and , well I did , I stayed with me dad until , as I say after I come out of the army and they would n't let me increase me coal trade . |
10 | They would n't let me plug it by myself . ’ |
11 | I wish I could see Annie again , but they took me away , and they would n't let me see her again . |
12 | That 's one reason I do n't want Mr Jackson to send me to Combe Court — they would n't let me keep Satan . |
13 | I like playing football , too , but they would n't let me play in the village under-12 team because I 'm a girl . |
14 | ‘ Knowing the attitude of these men , they wo n't let me fail . |
15 | But they wo n't let me do it at work . |
16 | It 's they wo n't let me go . ’ |
17 | They know I 'm here now ; they wo n't let me see them again . ’ |
18 | they wo n't let me get . |
19 | ‘ They wo n't let me touch owt . |
20 | An' I 'm not lookin' forward to it , I can tell you , 'cos they wo n't let me take me pan with me . ’ |