Example sentences of "[modal v] n't let them [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You must n't let them take advantage of you , ’ he said . |
2 | Oh I should n't let them go for any less than five pound a pair . |
3 | ‘ Well , I should n't let them get away with it like that , all the same . ’ |
4 | Up to that point , says Mr K , ‘ we could n't let them win . |
5 | But I could n't let them have the last letter . |
6 | I know you were only a junior minister , but one hears about things when one 's down the line , that he was very presidential , that he would n't let them talk much and was very stiff and frozen . |
7 | He would n't let them tell her . |
8 | ‘ I would n't let them go home , ’ Gareth said . |
9 | And of course John and the two oldest children would n't let them go without taking their turn at the slide . |
10 | Another thing — Vic would n't let them bring in newspapers , which pissed me off . |
11 | We would n't let them meet on the corners because the people in the houses on the corners always used to complain of the row that they made — used to chase them . |
12 | ‘ So that 's why you would n't let them burn the trimmings , ’ Whitaker said . |
13 | ‘ You know Daddy would n't let them do that . ’ |
14 | No disrespect to my conveyancing brethren but I would n't let them loose on a guilty plea of going the wrong way round a keep left sign . |
15 | Oh I would n't let them drive me out |
16 | I would n't let them drive me out would you ? |
17 | They just would n't let them come out with the flour . |
18 | I mean if I did n't like the person I would n't let them know . |
19 | He would n't let them have them out when we were there . |
20 | 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 ? |
21 | I do n't know whether it is just the advance of modern technology within the family , or whether it is because the type of material the fire is built with nowadays would n't let them taste quite so good . |
22 | ‘ We ca n't let them go without doing something , ’ I said , thinking of poor Josef . |
23 | ‘ We ca n't let them go ! ’ |
24 | go with them we ca n't let them go on there own , I mean once there 've school , you 've got to take come back later or something . |
25 | He , he ca n't let them go . |
26 | she said I ca n't let them do playdo I ca n't let them do painting she 's just got nowhere to let them do anything . |
27 | she said I ca n't let them do playdo I ca n't let them do painting she 's just got nowhere to let them do anything . |
28 | ‘ We ca n't let them get away with that , ’ said Mrs Mott eyeing Harry Dodson 's looped festoons of smilax , positively growing before her eyes . |
29 | ‘ You ca n't let them get hold of her , Rachaela . |
30 | I mean , you ca n't let them come here and think they can walk all over you , because then next time they come they 'll get a bit cocky and think they can do what they want . |