Example sentences of "[noun sg] wo not [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My mummy wo n't let me play with her again , ’ said Lucile , a note of righteousness creeping into her terror . |
| 2 | ‘ Mummy wo n't let us talk about sausages — ‘ cept when we have them , ’ said Chris . |
| 3 | WHEN your car wo n't go you send for a very nice man from the breakdown services — but what do you do if something 's not quite right in your £1.85 billion reprocessing plant ? |
| 4 | I know what you girls are like , you say you 'll just have it short to see what it looks like , and then you say Pedro at the salon wo n't let you grow it just for the moment , and then you say you 've got to look your best for some wedding or other and you ca n't go with it straggly and then you end up not growing it again and if I do n't mention it every week you think I 've learned to like it and if I do mention it every week you think I 'm nagging so I do n't mention it and I 'm stuck with it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | in a minute daddy 's got , daddy wo n't let you go you horror , it 's only cos you 're closer to things with me int it ? |
| 7 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 9 | He thinks we 're in league with the police to get rid of him and now my husband wo n't have anything to do with him , he leaves it all to me . |
| 10 | ‘ Your wife wo n't like you acting as my second skin . ’ |
| 11 | Their realism wo n't help you explain a hundredth part of the real events which have actually occurred . |
| 12 | DOSFax Lite wo n't let you export received faxes to other file formats but it does operate in the background and runs a scheduler . |
| 13 | If your building society wo n't allow you to register you can still apply for a refund of overpaid tax financial year . |
| 14 | The guide Making a Will Wo n't Kill You costs 60p plus sae from The Law Society Bookshop , 227 The Strand , London WC2 1BA . |
| 15 | But the Government wo n't let us get on with our work . ’ |
| 16 | I wonder why Cockney wo n't let you pick |
| 17 | The world wo n't let it go on . |
| 18 | make sure they are lying on their side so that if they are sick their vomit wo n't stop them breathing |
| 19 | The equivalent of our restrained glee over this little triumph is an organisation whose policy is : we will use people of any age … but those bastards at the insurance company wo n't let us use anyone over 70 . |
| 20 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 21 | ‘ Mother wo n't let us come here alone , and being with you is almost as good as being by ourselves ! ’ |
| 22 | If you ca n't make the client understand what you are talking about , it is likely that consumers will also be mystified , so the client wo n't let you run the campaign . |