Example sentences of "[modal v] n't let [pron] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I should n't let them go for any less than five pound a pair . |
| 2 | so I thought I could n't , I could n't let him go |
| 3 | She was always so obsessed with her appearance , I could n't let her go to her grave in that state … |
| 4 | she wants to be near and he said could n't let her go |
| 5 | ‘ I had no choice , ’ they say , or ‘ I could n't let him/her go into a home . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Could n't let it go to the Home , ’ Rose had said briefly . |
| 7 | I should like to have found you something nicer to do , but I could n't let you go to people we know nothing about , and Mrs Andrews says that her cousin is sure to take care of you . |
| 8 | And then I leaned up to look down into your face , and saw the same vulnerability echoed there , your eyes almost purple , dazed , uncomprehending , and I knew then that I could n't let you go . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't let them go home , ’ Gareth said . |
| 10 | And of course John and the two oldest children would n't let them go without taking their turn at the slide . |
| 11 | ‘ Realistically , only Blackburn Rovers could afford to buy him and even then we would n't let him go … although it would be nice if they tried to tempt me , ’ he quipped . |
| 12 | Photography would n't let him go , however , and after serving out his apprenticeship with various studios he went freelance , working to commission and supplying picture libraries with travel shots . |
| 13 | Photography would n't let him go , however , and after serving out his apprenticeship with various studios he went freelance , working to commission and supplying picture libraries with travel shots . |
| 14 | He 's howling and scr w wailing cos I would n't let him go back in the same chair ! |
| 15 | Strangely enough , Ken Pitt would n't let me go with him , or his mother for that matter , to receive the award . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I was only sixteen ; they would n't let me go on a world tour . |
| 18 | When I got married , he would n't let me go to visit the Girls ' Club . |
| 19 | Your father would n't let me go to her when she was dying , but he could n't come between us . |
| 20 | 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 ] . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But she would n't let me go . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | you would n't let me go on me own |
| 27 | She 'd lived there partly because she could n't be bothered to move , partly because it was cheap , but mainly because her mother would n't let her go . |
| 28 | And Gill gave her job to go and work in the shop and he would n't let her go and work in it . |
| 29 | The classical piece Cale always claimed was in him never emerged , mainly because the showman in him would n't let it go : ‘ there was just so much chaos going on , in my personal and creative life , that I could n't finish … |
| 30 | Mamba would n't let it go . |