Example sentences of "would [not/n't] let [pron] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would not let him see how much it hurt . |
| 2 | She could feel tears stinging the back of her eyes , but she would not let him see how vulnerable she was . |
| 3 | She would not let him see how much he had offended her . |
| 4 | Ernest and Rosie tried to make a start on the repairs , but by then she had discovered that she was pregnant , and Ernest would not let her do any work that might involve strenuous effort . |
| 5 | She longed to get home , to question her mother , but her brain would not let her hang on to these indulgences . |
| 6 | Would not let me stay here … |
| 7 | The parents would not let me leave home without them . ’ |
| 8 | Stapleton would not let it go out unless he thought Sir Henry was there . ’ |
| 9 | In Switzerland the gynaecologist would not let you put on too much weight because he was concerned that you 'd end up looking like an old cow and |
| 10 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 11 | On Sunday afternoons , because our parents would not let us go out unaccompanied in the evenings , we used to go to the local cinema , which was also the theatre . |
| 12 | I would n't let myself think how I had hoped to marry Nour and the happiness I had anticipated . |
| 13 | I know you were only a junior minister , but one hears about things when one 's down the line , that he was very presidential , that he would n't let them talk much and was very stiff and frozen . |
| 14 | ‘ I would n't let them go home , ’ Gareth said . |
| 15 | Another thing — Vic would n't let them bring in newspapers , which pissed me off . |
| 16 | They just would n't let them come out with the flour . |
| 17 | I do n't know whether it is just the advance of modern technology within the family , or whether it is because the type of material the fire is built with nowadays would n't let them taste quite so good . |
| 18 | He 's howling and scr w wailing cos I would n't let him go back in the same chair ! |
| 19 | Yet she would n't let him see just how he had got to her . |
| 20 | Well , at that time my best pal went to the pit , his mother would n't let him enter in th for scholarship , but he did happen to come here for , Well , he seemed to always get a day 's day release from the year dot , I think , and er eventually he got some A levels . |
| 21 | Watching the kestrel was a great experience , but life was still very frustrating for me because my mother understandably would n't let me wander very far afield , and I was n't going to see my first real live wild owl in Colchester Park ! |
| 22 | My mam moved away but the landlord would n't let me stay on because I was on social security . |
| 23 | And to think when Peggy was little Gran would n't let me switch on the tree lights until Christmas Eve . |
| 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 | ‘ She said she would n't let me come here . ’ |
| 26 | Part of her , that stubborn , spirited side , the side that had got her into this mess in the first place , would n't let her give up , back out and admit that Luke Denner and his sexuality were more than she could handle . |
| 27 | All over the Western world there were liberation movements and alternative life-styles — there had never been a kids ' crusade like it — and Hairy Back would n't let her stay out after eleven . |
| 28 | She might have known he would n't let it go so easily . |
| 29 | She would n't let anyone go near it . ’ |
| 30 | But if you were my son I would n't let you stay there one night on your own . |