Example sentences of "not let " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may keep your door closed and not answer when I ring the bell , you may refuse to answer my letters or return my calls when I leave a message on your answering machine , but sooner or later we are bound to meet and this time I will not let you fob me off with a smile . |
| 2 | I would not let him eat anything canned or frozen , I spoilt him to pieces . |
| 3 | Do not let me discommode you none , Miz Scarlett , I 'm sure ! |
| 4 | Alcohol and phonecalls , after an attack she would not let herself be too sober or alone . |
| 5 | The moral is simple : do not let up until the time-up bell sounds . |
| 6 | Cameron would not let him go . |
| 7 | We can not let that happen — can we ? ’ |
| 8 | But Gillian did not let this faze her . |
| 9 | Do not let the weight drop to the chest and never ‘ bounce ’ the bar off the chest . |
| 10 | And at the end , after twelve cancelled variants in one short paragraph , a single sentence , itself the third attempt , tells us ‘ They would not let the orchestra go , and musicians who attempted to leave were beaten up ’ , which says all we need to know about the unstated ‘ Keep playing ! ’ whereby the liveliness of the small hours will have been sustained . |
| 11 | The new decision does not let Hampshire off the hook — the county must still find room for 66,500 new homes — but it accedes to the county 's own view that it can find the space more sensibly outside the north-east or central parts of the county . |
| 12 | ‘ We can not do it because Gramm-Rudman-Hollings will not let us ’ has become a familiar refrain . |
| 13 | Do not let anybody , particularly gardening writers , tread on your dreams . |
| 14 | Wrap mothballs in muslin and do not let them touch the textiles . |
| 15 | As for last week 's increase in interest rates , which he endorsed , Mr Heseltine said : ‘ We must not let the medicine drag out , dissipating our economic strength and dispersing our political support . ’ |
| 16 | Notice that at so young an age he knew that ‘ the Rev. ’ was better than ‘ Rev. ’ But the book was not orthodox in divinity because father locked it up and would not let Michael 's sister read it . |
| 17 | They had not come to rescue her , but the child whom Phoebe would not let be born . |
| 18 | Then , curled up in bed that night , she told Fenna that she must not do it anymore , she must not wander off , he must not let her . |
| 19 | Now they could not let him slip away . |
| 20 | ‘ Why not let me write it for you ? ’ said Nurse Rose . |
| 21 | He strongly believes that if there is a chance someone 's suffering can be helped by an alternative method , then why not let them try it . |
| 22 | Though it would n't make the least bit of difference to her what way he looked , she would not let the occasion pass without punishing him sharply for still being alive . |
| 23 | By giving through a central fund to which all give according to their means and from which those in need receive , we fulfil our Lord 's precept : Do not let your right hand know what your left is doing . |
| 24 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 25 | We must not let our defences down , Mrs Thatcher and other cautious voices would argue . |
| 26 | We must not let our defences down , Mrs Thatcher and other cautious voices would argue . |
| 27 | There was , however , no apparent motive , McLeish reminded himself , and he must not let his own uneasy conviction that Angela Morgan would have been more than capable of stirring up strong and complex emotions in those around her cloud his judgement . |
| 28 | If the powder is not completely dissolved , place the bowl in a saucepan of water and heat gently or heat in the microwave for 20sec — do not let the gelatine boil . |
| 29 | To seize it he must not let Mr Kaifu get all the credit if the trade talks succeed . |
| 30 | Mr Taylor should not let Mr Johnson get too close . |