Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He always rushed to the phone , he would n't let me answer the phone you see . |
| 32 | My mam moved away but the landlord would n't let me stay on because I was on social security . |
| 33 | And to think when Peggy was little Gran would n't let me switch on the tree lights until Christmas Eve . |
| 34 | Strangely enough , Ken Pitt would n't let me go with him , or his mother for that matter , to receive the award . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | I was only sixteen ; they would n't let me go on a world tour . |
| 37 | When I got married , he would n't let me go to visit the Girls ' Club . |
| 38 | Your father would n't let me go to her when she was dying , but he could n't come between us . |
| 39 | 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 ] . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | But she would n't let me go . |
| 44 | 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 ? |
| 45 | you would n't let me go on me own |
| 46 | ‘ My parents would n't let me leave school , so I got a daily paper-round and weekend work at the local timber yard . |
| 47 | He would n't let me pick him up , comfort him , do anything with him at all and I just did n't know what was wrong with him . |
| 48 | ‘ She said she would n't let me come here . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ I thought you would n't let me come . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ Besides , I was afraid you would n't let me come if I phoned . ’ |
| 51 | She had a grand lot of milk , but she would n't let me milk her . |
| 52 | You would n't let me turn the telly on which is what most people want to do on a Saturday evening , off |
| 53 | I like playing football , too , but they would n't let me play in the village under-12 team because I 'm a girl . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | My brothers would n't let me worry about money — they 'd always see me all right . ’ |
| 57 | Yeah , you would n't let me box . |
| 58 | Last year , after a fortnight 's holiday in California , his first for two years , he complained , ‘ My wife would n't let me take any work with me ’ . |
| 59 | When I got to Holloway I found I would have been entitled to take most of the things she would n't let me take , like a hairbrush . |
| 60 | She would n't let me take her . ’ |