Example sentences of "would not [verb] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Your father would n't let me go to her when she was dying , but he could n't come between us . |
| 32 | 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 ] . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | But she would n't let me go . |
| 37 | 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 ? |
| 38 | you would n't let me go on me own |
| 39 | ‘ My parents would n't let me leave school , so I got a daily paper-round and weekend work at the local timber yard . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | ‘ She said she would n't let me come here . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ I thought you would n't let me come . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ Besides , I was afraid you would n't let me come if I phoned . ’ |
| 44 | She had a grand lot of milk , but she would n't let me milk her . |
| 45 | You would n't let me turn the telly on which is what most people want to do on a Saturday evening , off |
| 46 | I like playing football , too , but they would n't let me play in the village under-12 team because I 'm a girl . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | My brothers would n't let me worry about money — they 'd always see me all right . ’ |
| 50 | Yeah , you would n't let me box . |
| 51 | 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 ’ . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | She would n't let me take her . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ You would n't let me take you hostage by any chance ? ’ the Campbell asked hopefully . |
| 55 | I would n't let me buy me lunch , I said , and I meant it . |
| 56 | Alejandro would n't let me stick and ball for a week . |
| 57 | He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking , |
| 58 | They would n't let me plug it by myself . ’ |
| 59 | Chris would n't let me drive his car . |
| 60 | Bloody fool that I am , my pride would n't let me accept other consolation , even when offered , neither before the divorce , nor since . ’ |