Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] let we [vb infin] " 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 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The white missionary before you would not let us have this ceremony , said Joseph . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , Tom would n't let us go , kept fillin' up them old cracked china mugs of his . |
| 6 | Would n't let us stand outside anywhere . |
| 7 | They would n't let us pay our board you see , used to ha used to have twenty five bob spending money then . |
| 8 | She would n't let us do the washing — she said we did n't wash properly . |
| 9 | What had gone so wrong that they would n't let us hear the news ? |
| 10 | The Captain ca n't let us 'ave the 'all for me daughter 's weddin' . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , and they ca n't let us know their wants , ’ said Sophia . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know all the answers , ’ Emily said fiercely , ‘ not yet but I will not let us sink , I will not . ’ |
| 13 | Von Roon said : ‘ Our God of old lives still and will not let us perish in disgrace . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Mummy wo n't let us talk about sausages — ‘ cept when we have them , ’ said Chris . |
| 15 | ‘ The theatre have told me not to come back , and Mrs Seager wo n't let us stay on . ’ |
| 16 | And Olson wo n't let us squirm off the hook — for him the anti-Jewishness is symptom , not cause : |
| 17 | ‘ He wo n't let us watch Neighbours or Home and Away and will always say he wants to watch the other side , no matter what it is . ’ |
| 18 | The fans wo n't let us go about things any other way . |
| 19 | Our Dad 's here too , and he wo n't let us go on anything dangerous . |
| 20 | He wo n't let us borrow that ! |
| 21 | The shoes would have been secondhand so there 's a chance they wo n't let us have them . |
| 22 | Yeah , but , but our dep our , our department our fat slob wo n't allow it wo n't let us have any overtime |
| 23 | But the Government wo n't let us get on with our work . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Mother wo n't let us come here alone , and being with you is almost as good as being by ourselves ! ’ |