Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] me go " in BNC.

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1 I thought that if I told him what had really happened he might not let me go again and I wanted to see Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Cops ones that were coming soon .
2 After we had the second child we had the rows , he 'd not let me go to her when she cried .
3 I 'd say oh yes , you know but , still could n't get me to go in the Guild and er , it was so strange that the , I ca n't remember , I think I 've been in the Guild about twenty-five years so you 'll have to do your own little sum .
4 But that little plan was soon put a stop to , for mother would not let me go by myself , and there was nobody to go with me .
5 Strangely enough , Ken Pitt would n't let me go with him , or his mother for that matter , to receive the award .
6 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 .
7 I was only sixteen ; they would n't let me go on a world tour .
8 When I got married , he would n't let me go to visit the Girls ' Club .
9 Your father would n't let me go to her when she was dying , but he could n't come between us .
10 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 ] .
11 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 .
12 I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go .
13 And he would n't let me go at nine o'clock if he thought I had n't have been knackered and ready to fall down you know .
14 But she would n't let me go .
15 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 ?
16 you would n't let me go on me own
17 ‘ You would n't find me going out there on me own ! ’
18 I 'd dragged her into the storeroom and begged her to take me to London , saying my family would n't allow me to go without her .
19 My mother would n't allow me to go to the meeting last night — you know she despises anything Irish . "
20 ‘ They ca n't make me go there . ’
21 " I wo n't go , you ca n't make me go ! "
22 You ca n't make me go back with you .
23 ‘ You ca n't expect me to go hefting bowls of boiling water .
24 And then everything goes wrong when he ca n't get me to go round there and pinch it . ’
25 ‘ He ca n't let me go until he gives me my keys . ’
26 ‘ You ca n't force me to go anywhere with you .
27 ‘ The king will not let me go . ’
28 A diary entry of the period reads , ‘ Daddy wo n't let me go out to play or listen to Children 's Hour or read stories .
29 " She wo n't let me go — you know that .
30 They just … wo n't let me go . ’
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