Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument about rhythm should not make us forget the very important difference in English between strong and weak syllables ; some languages do not have such a noticeable difference ( which may , perhaps , explain the subjective impression of ‘ syllable-timing ’ ) , and for native speakers of such languages learning English it can be helpful to practise repeating strongly rhythmical utterances since this forces the speaker to concentrate on making unstressed syllables weak . |
| 2 | She must n't let him take the rise out of her like that . |
| 3 | He threw a rock down it but you could not hear it strike the bottom … . |
| 4 | You could n't let me have a little milk ? |
| 5 | My mate was over seventy , so I could n't let him lift a horse 's foot after ‘ knocking-off ’ time : I actually shoed the two horses . |
| 6 | I could n't let him know the strength of my feelings — I was afraid it might frighten him off . |
| 7 | But I could n't let them have the last letter . |
| 8 | I could n't let myself feel the pain until many years later and with the pain came anger . |
| 9 | a proper one , hi Holly , alright love , so I went , left it and then I went called back last night after college and he said oh I have n't done it yet come on he said we 'll whiz it on the band saw , put it on the band saw and he 'd taken two nails out that you could n't see you know the , the old stamped cast iron ones , the ends had snapped off |
| 10 | Priestley concludes that ‘ twenty Marxian treatises about the proletariat would not make you feel a tenth of the compassion for the dispossessed urban masses as this bit of pantomime does ’ . |
| 11 | She would not let them have the Grimoire . |
| 12 | I knew the master would not let her leave the safety of the Grange to go so far , especially as the road to the hills passed close to Wuthering Heights . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I have come , ’ I ventured to say , but the mother-in-law briskly discounted me as a person , and would not let me see the doctor . |
| 15 | Surely they would n't make them go the whole distance in the dark ? |
| 16 | ‘ So that 's why you would n't let them burn the trimmings , ’ Whitaker said . |
| 17 | where they did n't like the Christmas , not the modern parents where they , they would n't let them have a Christmas tree , the erm the critics is was erm oh what was that about ? |
| 18 | His other would n't let him have the car . |
| 19 | They would n't let me do a thing . |
| 20 | He always rushed to the phone , he would n't let me answer the phone you see . |
| 21 | You would n't let me turn the telly on which is what most people want to do on a Saturday evening , off |
| 22 | She brought Emel , but her husband would n't let her bring the boys . |
| 23 | So that he ca n't see what 's going on , cos she thinks if he do n't see what 's going on he wo n't bark , but he cries but I mean she should n't have them there , she 's never here so she should n't have them , I mean look at the trouble Alan had to get Jessie , because they worked , but Emma goes home every lunch time to see to Jessie from the bank , but I mean the woman one of them would n't let her have a dog , one kennels , which is how it should be , but I mean this one breed those three herself so , yeah I mean if you breed dogs yourself and you have three in the house of the same breed , what the hell do you want an alsatian for , as well but the whole point is she do n't have them as enjoyment , she do n't have them as company |
| 24 | And we would n't let her have the points till she came back and finished the other twenty . |
| 25 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |
| 26 | She would n't let us do the washing — she said we did n't wash properly . |
| 27 | What had gone so wrong that they would n't let us hear the news ? |
| 28 | He 'll be screaming , yo you know , he would n't let you touch the phone or something ! not tonight . |
| 29 | Some women ca n't make it last the week so theirs is kept in the office . |
| 30 | For instance , I bet it ca n't help us solve the problem of waiting lists ? |