Example sentences of "he [modal v] not let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new owner , Mr. Bolsover , came to see me last week , and I 'm afraid he may not let us go on using the barn . |
| 2 | to the door , he 'll not let you touch him . |
| 3 | I thought that if I told him what had really happened he might not let me go again and I wanted to see Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Cops ones that were coming soon . |
| 4 | As I think he might not let me have my half-hour in midmorning if he let me go out earlier , I do n't insist . ) |
| 5 | He could not let anyone stand in the way of the mission . |
| 6 | He could not let it go . |
| 7 | After we had the second child we had the rows , he 'd not let me go to her when she cried . |
| 8 | Martin here would have done as much , but that I was none too secure on my feet , and he would not let me undertake the journey home alone . |
| 9 | ‘ He would not let me tend it properly before , stubborn man that he — ’ |
| 10 | He ate dinner and all she could remember was living with him in London ; when they rented a flat , he would n't let her cook . |
| 11 | He would n't let her make it his problem . |
| 12 | And Gill gave her job to go and work in the shop and he would n't let her go and work in it . |
| 13 | When I got married , he would n't let me go to visit the Girls ' Club . |
| 14 | And he would n't let me go at nine o'clock if he thought I had n't have been knackered and ready to fall down you know . |
| 15 | He always rushed to the phone , he would n't let me answer the phone you see . |
| 16 | He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop . |
| 17 | He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking , |
| 18 | My husband thought they were a failure and felt embarrassed about them , and for a long time he would n't let me see them . |
| 19 | ‘ There was a painting on his easel , but he would n't let me see it . |
| 20 | He would n't let me pick him up , comfort him , do anything with him at all and I just did n't know what was wrong with him . |
| 21 | Then he would n't let me help clear away . |
| 22 | He would n't let them tell her . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He would n't let them have them out when we were there . |
| 25 | ‘ If daddy was alive he would n't let him do this to me ! |
| 26 | and said he wanted an M O T on it , so his dad offered but he scrubbed his did , he would n't let him do it |
| 27 | Fell in love with the Duke of Athens ’ sweet little widow , and tried to get rid of the Patriarch of Constantinople when he would n't let him divorce his first wife . |
| 28 | She might have known he would n't let it go so easily . |
| 29 | He 'll be screaming , yo you know , he would n't let you touch the phone or something ! not tonight . |
| 30 | He , he ca n't let them go . |