Example sentences of "not have [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cocaine is the kind of drug that does not have to do you harm — unless you 're stupid with it . |
| 2 | I would not have made him motm against Oldham , I thought the Oldham defenders Jobson and Redmond were the best players on the park . |
| 3 | Had the editor of " Private Eye " made impromptu allegations against Goldsmith on prime-time television , the long arm of the criminal law could not have felt his collar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I should not have let her attend that ridiculous affair , but she insisted . ’ |
| 7 | None the less , he wrote , I should not have let her see it . |
| 8 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 9 | ‘ Your leg — and the Teller 's weakness — would not have let you stay with it . ’ |