Example sentences of "she [modal v] not let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | She must n't let him take the rise out of her like that . |
2 | This light-hearted banter was amusing , but she must n't let it get out of hand . |
3 | And now although her whole body cried out for fulfilment and she longed for Joss Barnet to complete what he had surely come to do , she knew that she must not let it happen . |
4 | So she could not let her go alone but must stand in the crowds being shoved , the smell of greasy food and litter breathed over her in this hot air , and the constant blare of noise grinding at her . |
5 | She could not let him throw last night in her face . |
6 | No matter what it cost her , she could not let him leave without trying to speak to him . |
7 | But at that moment , as Cicely and Guthrie Hepwood came back into the house from the stables , all she knew was that , while she still wanted Naylor , she could not let him make love to her — not in his aunt 's and uncle 's house with them only in the next-door room , for all she knew . |
8 | She could not let him get close to her . |
9 | She could not let it happen . |
10 | He hated and desired her , but she could n't let him know she saw the desire . |
11 | But she could n't let him see that it had meant something to her . |
12 | For her own peace of mind — her emotional sanity — she could n't let it happen again . |
13 | Tears burned at the back of her eyelids , but she dare n't let him see . |
14 | But she would n't let me go . |
15 | She would n't let me pay for it . |
16 | ‘ She said she would n't let me come here . ’ |
17 | When I got to Holloway I found I would have been entitled to take most of the things she would n't let me take , like a hairbrush . |
18 | She would n't let me take her . ’ |
19 | Pat rung up and wanted me to fetch the dressing table on Tuesday night I said yeah alright I 'll do Wednes but I forgot I was going out with the girls Wednesday so I went out Tuesday and she would n't let me have it , cos Tuesdays they 're not working in the kitchen |
20 | She had a grand lot of milk , but she would n't let me milk her . |
21 | She would n't let him come with us because she said that 'd be our first christmas when we 're altogether I said yeah that 's the |
22 | She would n't let him see that he had hurt her in a way that Harry Martin and all his tricks could never have hurt her . |
23 | Yet she would n't let him see just how he had got to her . |
24 | She would n't let him get near her again either . |
25 | She would n't let him have it . |
26 | Had he viewed her as an exciting and unusual lay , and believed that she would n't let him screw her without a hard-luck , my wife-doesn't-understand-me line to spin ? |
27 | She would n't let him take her to the Aber House Hotel . |
28 | She would n't let anyone go near it . ’ |
29 | ‘ And she would n't let you sleep there overnight ? |
30 | She would n't let us do the washing — she said we did n't wash properly . |