Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , these Creole features of grammar do not appear to carry any particular symbolic value either ( see the quote from Hewitt above ) and the contexts in which they occur do not make them look like code switches . |
| 2 | It is specially important not to let him vegetate in front of the television for long periods . |
| 3 | Nonetheless she was determined not to let her fear of water prevent her from accompanying Bernard on their now frequent sailing holidays . |
| 4 | It was hard to leave , too , because the parents of my good friend Henry Clerval would not let him go to university with me . |
| 5 | PACKIE BONNER is angry that Glasgow Celtic boss Liam Brady would not let him go on loan to Premier Division club Middlesbrough . |
| 6 | They would not let her speak at table and made her wear a white canvas apron and a short gown ‘ so that she should be held a fool ’ ; but , said Margery with unholy self-satisfaction , ‘ she was held in more worship than they were , wherever they went ’ . |
| 7 | I 've been out there and I still did n't know what erm but they will er if if you 're struggling on any assignment they will not let you struggle for day in day out . |
| 8 | Von Roon said : ‘ Our God of old lives still and will not let us perish in disgrace . ’ |
| 9 | He had pleaded with his mother not to make him go to school , but she had insisted , saying that she would pick him up at the end of the day and take him to the hospital , and that he was to ‘ keep busy ’ . |
| 10 | Erm , that his father did n't make him go to school . |
| 11 | Sunday nights have always been a problem for the serious cinemagoer , since this is the night that brings out the lads whose parents do n't make them go to bed early before a fresh week at school begins . |
| 12 | My brothers would n't let me worry about money — they 'd always see me all right . ’ |
| 13 | Do n't let him eat until lunch time . |
| 14 | But the pensioners wo n't let him rest in peace . |
| 15 | But rather than have Mercedes back in the factory , the company preferred to pay her wages through the Ministry of Labour and would n't let her return to work or even come near the factory . |
| 16 | Do n't let her bum in purgatory , dear God , let her go straight to heaven . |