Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [verb] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should n't have made me come down here . |
| 2 | I immediately got a lot of media attention — Radio One could n't have made me fail . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , I , I was in er , I 'm not sure , I , I think I was in the top class in the junior school and er , without boasting , I was a good scholar and I eventually passed to go to the Q M and me dad could n't afford to let me go . |
| 4 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 5 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
| 6 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |
| 7 | ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’ |
| 8 | Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him . |
| 9 | I do n't have to ask you what I should do in my spare time , and — and I suppose now you wo n't want to help me find my mother , and that 's all right with me , I do n't care ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You wo n't forget to let me have that note about Artemis Kostika , will you ? ’ |
| 11 | Christ , she wo n't dare let me live . |