Example sentences of "[pron] would not [verb] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't let me buy me lunch , I said , and I meant it . |
| 2 | But she would n't let me go . |
| 3 | She would n't let me pay for it . |
| 4 | ‘ She said she would n't let me come here . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She would n't let me take her . ’ |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | She had a grand lot of milk , but she would n't let me milk her . |
| 9 | you would n't let me go on me own |
| 10 | Yeah , you would n't let me box . |
| 11 | ‘ You would n't let me take you hostage by any chance ? ’ the Campbell asked hopefully . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought you would n't let me come . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Besides , I was afraid you would n't let me come if I phoned . ’ |
| 14 | You would n't let me turn the telly on which is what most people want to do on a Saturday evening , off |
| 15 | ‘ They would n't let me do anything , ’ Nails said aggressively , and with a fair amount of truth . |
| 16 | And an answer has come up , with no , because they would n't let me do biology , you see . |
| 17 | They would n't let me do a thing . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was only sixteen ; they would n't let me go on a world tour . |
| 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 | 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 ? |
| 23 | I says I 'm gon na stop with me father and they said well , we 're sorry to lose you but we know this trade 's know good to you and we hope that you 'll stay with your dad and , well I did , I stayed with me dad until , as I say after I come out of the army and they would n't let me increase me coal trade . |
| 24 | They would n't let me plug it by myself . ’ |
| 25 | I wish I could see Annie again , but they took me away , and they would n't let me see her again . |
| 26 | That 's one reason I do n't want Mr Jackson to send me to Combe Court — they would n't let me keep Satan . |
| 27 | I like playing football , too , but they would n't let me play in the village under-12 team because I 'm a girl . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ He would not let me tend it properly before , stubborn man that he — ’ |
| 30 | He would n't make me have my birthday party in the rumpus-room with the girls . |