Example sentences of "[vb mod] not have let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | I should not have let her attend that ridiculous affair , but she insisted . ’ |
2 | None the less , he wrote , I should not have let her see it . |
3 | But I should n't have let myself get near that cringing landlord . |
4 | I should n't have let myself fall in love with him ! she thought angrily . |
5 | Perverse conditioned psychological needs require some of our best thinking to solve — but then we should n't have let them become habits in the first place . |
6 | ‘ You should n't have let him go off by himself ! |
7 | ‘ I know we should n't have let him go , but I did n't feel we know him well enough to tell him he was too drunk to drive . ’ |
8 | We should n't have let him become chairman . |
9 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
10 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
11 | ‘ I should n't have let you do it . ’ |
12 | But I should n't have let you do that . ’ |
13 | ‘ I should n't have let you go in there , ’ Pascoe said . |
14 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
15 | He really is so peculiarly helpless , and I could n't have let him take it home all by himself , could I ? |
16 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
17 | Dr Myerscough said he would not have let her go home without repeating the traces of the heartbeat or if she had gone home she would have been asked to attend on alternate days for check-ups . |
18 | ‘ Your leg — and the Teller 's weakness — would not have let you stay with it . ’ |
19 | I would n't have let him give it to me . |
20 | Phillis said , ‘ She would n't have let him touch me if she was here . ’ |
21 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
22 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |
23 | ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’ |
24 | Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him . |
25 | ‘ I would n't have let her marry him if she had ! ’ declared Lady Merchiston . |
26 | You know I gave her the ultimatum like you can come with us but damn well I would n't have let her come . |
27 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
28 | If he had cared he would n't have let her slip away the way he had . |
29 | ‘ The Thing would n't have let us come right here if it was n't safe for nomes . ’ |
30 | I would n't have let it happen . ’ |