Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that he ca n't see what 's going on , cos she thinks if he do n't see what 's going on he wo n't bark , but he cries but I mean she should n't have them there , she 's never here so she should n't have them , I mean look at the trouble Alan had to get Jessie , because they worked , but Emma goes home every lunch time to see to Jessie from the bank , but I mean the woman one of them would n't let her have a dog , one kennels , which is how it should be , but I mean this one breed those three herself so , yeah I mean if you breed dogs yourself and you have three in the house of the same breed , what the hell do you want an alsatian for , as well but the whole point is she do n't have them as enjoyment , she do n't have them as company |
| 2 | And if you ask , they must also let you know where they got your name . |
| 3 | But they 'll never let me leave . |
| 4 | And now they 'll never let me go . |
| 5 | They 'll never let me join their gang now . ’ |
| 6 | If he 's in police custody as he may well be by now they 'll never let her see him , ’ Hugo said . |
| 7 | ‘ If they come visitin' — CO , Adjutant , QM , like — they 'll never let you get away with it . |
| 8 | Now they could not let him slip away . |
| 9 | I think the best conclusion would have happened if they 'd just let it happen , rather than trying to force the issue on April the nineteenth . |
| 10 | It 's a very difficult one I think in a game that probably they 'd just let you do that . |
| 11 | They 'd never let you see him . ’ |
| 12 | We had to go in there several times when I was little and mother was sick , and they 'd never let us stay together , so anything could have happened . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It could be something quite slight and they 'd still let us know officially . |
| 14 | They 'd really let themselves go . |
| 15 | They would not let him pass . |
| 16 | On these , on the Leventhorpes and Rempstons and Erpynghams , he could lean when he would , and they would not let him fall . |
| 17 | They would not let her speak at table and made her wear a white canvas apron and a short gown ‘ so that she should be held a fool ’ ; but , said Margery with unholy self-satisfaction , ‘ she was held in more worship than they were , wherever they went ’ . |
| 18 | Somehow Margery got to Calais , where she met ‘ divers persons who had known her before ’ ; they would not let her know which ship they were sailing on , but Margery ‘ speered and spied ’ until she found out , and put her luggage aboard . |
| 19 | ‘ They would n't let me do anything , ’ Nails said aggressively , and with a fair amount of truth . |
| 20 | And an answer has come up , with no , because they would n't let me do biology , you see . |
| 21 | They would n't let me do a thing . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I was only sixteen ; they would n't let me go on a world tour . |
| 24 | 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 ] . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They would n't let me plug it by myself . ’ |
| 29 | I wish I could see Annie again , but they took me away , and they would n't let me see her again . |
| 30 | 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 . |