Example sentences of "they [modal v] not [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could n't get me to come in until every marshal 's flag on the circuit was flapping . |
| 2 | You were n't supposed to turn the radio off , but I used to so they could n't hear me singing along with the tape . |
| 3 | As the Queen they would n't expect me to do much . |
| 4 | ‘ They would n't let me do anything , ’ Nails said aggressively , and with a fair amount of truth . |
| 5 | And an answer has come up , with no , because they would n't let me do biology , you see . |
| 6 | They would n't let me do a thing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was only sixteen ; they would n't let me go on a world tour . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They would n't let me plug it by myself . ’ |
| 14 | I wish I could see Annie again , but they took me away , and they would n't let me see her again . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I like playing football , too , but they would n't let me play in the village under-12 team because I 'm a girl . |
| 17 | ‘ They would n't allow me to grow up . |
| 18 | ‘ They ca n't make me go there . ’ |
| 19 | Playtex Secrets Lycra-control underwear ( even if they ca n't make me look like Ulrika ) |
| 20 | Since they ca n't stop me doing that , I 've made my views on Welsh rugby very clear . |
| 21 | They wo n't give me Betnovate cos |
| 22 | ‘ They are as fed up with me as you are , but they wo n't stop me taking leave . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Knowing the attitude of these men , they wo n't let me fail . |
| 24 | But they wo n't let me do it at work . |
| 25 | It 's they wo n't let me go . ’ |
| 26 | They know I 'm here now ; they wo n't let me see them again . ’ |
| 27 | they wo n't let me get . |
| 28 | ‘ They wo n't let me touch owt . |
| 29 | An' I 'm not lookin' forward to it , I can tell you , 'cos they wo n't let me take me pan with me . ’ |