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 .
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