Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [pers pn] go [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The new owner , Mr. Bolsover , came to see me last week , and I 'm afraid he may not let us go on using the barn .
2 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 .
3 Stapleton would not let it go out unless he thought Sir Henry was there . ’
4 Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel .
5 On Sunday afternoons , because our parents would not let us go out unaccompanied in the evenings , we used to go to the local cinema , which was also the theatre .
6 ‘ I would n't let them go home , ’ Gareth said .
7 He 's howling and scr w wailing cos I would n't let him go back in the same chair !
8 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 ] .
9 She might have known he would n't let it go so easily .
10 Even if you did see her , Mr Evans would n't let you go out with her , to a dance , or the pictures , or anything .
11 ‘ They ca n't make me go there . ’
12 You ca n't make me go back with you .
13 ‘ Even if you do find him , you ca n't make him go back to your sister , ’ she said slowly .
14 ‘ You ca n't let him go off like that , ’ hissed Rayleen loudly .
15 ‘ We ca n't let them go without doing something , ’ I said , thinking of poor Josef .
16 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 .
17 Now we ca n't let you go upstairs but later on you 'll see the room up above here and you can see where that goes to .
18 ‘ They ca n't let you go down in this , ’ he said with concern .
19 You ca n't just leave it up to the police , or to someone else — and ignoring it wo n't make it go away .
20 And getting in a tiss and shouting wo n't make it go away .
21 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 .
22 The world wo n't let it go on .
23 The withdrawal of privileges is a very popular response by parents to non-compliance — for example : ‘ You 've been cheeky so I wo n't let you go out ’ ; ‘ You disobeyed me by going out on the road so you ca n't have that ice-cream . ’
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