Example sentences of "they would not [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would not let him pass . |
| 2 | On these , on the Leventhorpes and Rempstons and Erpynghams , he could lean when he would , and they would not let him fall . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Somehow Margery got to Calais , where she met ‘ divers persons who had known her before ’ ; they would not let her know which ship they were sailing on , but Margery ‘ speered and spied ’ until she found out , and put her luggage aboard . |
| 5 | Surely they would n't make them go the whole distance in the dark ? |
| 6 | ‘ They would n't let me do anything , ’ Nails said aggressively , and with a fair amount of truth . |
| 7 | And an answer has come up , with no , because they would n't let me do biology , you see . |
| 8 | They would n't let me do a thing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I was only sixteen ; they would n't let me go on a world tour . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They would n't let me plug it by myself . ’ |
| 16 | I wish I could see Annie again , but they took me away , and they would n't let me see her again . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I like playing football , too , but they would n't let me play in the village under-12 team because I 'm a girl . |
| 19 | Since they would n't let her sleep , she drank tea . |
| 20 | they would n't let her sit with them because they said oh well , she 's she 's you know , leave her with them , and it was that little lad |
| 21 | Yeah , there was one French teacher who wanted to come , they would n't let her come . |
| 22 | Mind you , he shits himself does n't he , cos Johnny Giles was it 's controversial cos they would n't let him speak at the end of the game . |
| 23 | the Beverley sisters were on and they said they used to wear very daring clothes and the B B C banned them from showing their navels , cos you 're not supposed to show your navel on television and you could n't say the word , oh yeah Lonnie Donegan was on and he said that he was banned from singing this song er in eighty forty was such a little drip and in it he says we beat the bloody British and they would n't let him sing that because he swore so he had to sing we beat the ruddy British |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | ‘ I was afraid they would n't let you come . ’ |
| 26 | They would n't let us pay our board you see , used to ha used to have twenty five bob spending money then . |
| 27 | What had gone so wrong that they would n't let us hear the news ? |