Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] let i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In fact a couple of nights later he took me to see Max Miller at Holborn Empire and would not let me pay for anything . |
| 32 | ‘ But my chief at Liverpool CID would not let me take part , because he was away on holiday himself at the time , and required me to stand in for him . |
| 33 | ‘ I have come , ’ I ventured to say , but the mother-in-law briskly discounted me as a person , and would not let me see the doctor . |
| 34 | PAMELA : [ aside ] Now I begin to know too well why all his hard trials of me and my black apprehensions would not let me hate him . |
| 35 | In fact , the novelty of being offered information by Sniffy would n't let me miss it . |
| 36 | I like his wolfhounds but my mother would n't let me feed them . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ They would n't let me do anything , ’ Nails said aggressively , and with a fair amount of truth . |
| 38 | And an answer has come up , with no , because they would n't let me do biology , you see . |
| 39 | They would n't let me do a thing . |
| 40 | Watching the kestrel was a great experience , but life was still very frustrating for me because my mother understandably would n't let me wander very far afield , and I was n't going to see my first real live wild owl in Colchester Park ! |
| 41 | She kissed me and would n't let me pay for the ticket . |
| 42 | He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop . |
| 43 | She would n't let me pay for it . |
| 44 | Keith come back here and say have you bought out a video and I 'll say oh no I could n't , Carol would n't let me bring it , they oh no hen pecked , ooh , ooh |
| 45 | He always rushed to the phone , he would n't let me answer the phone you see . |
| 46 | My mam moved away but the landlord would n't let me stay on because I was on social security . |
| 47 | And to think when Peggy was little Gran would n't let me switch on the tree lights until Christmas Eve . |
| 48 | Strangely enough , Ken Pitt would n't let me go with him , or his mother for that matter , to receive the award . |
| 49 | Thus the daughter of one mother who drank asked to go to live with her grandmother , in her well-ordered ‘ nice ’ home : ‘ but they would n't let me go . |
| 50 | I was only sixteen ; they would n't let me go on a world tour . |
| 51 | When I got married , he would n't let me go to visit the Girls ' Club . |
| 52 | Your father would n't let me go to her when she was dying , but he could n't come between us . |
| 53 | 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 ] . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | But she would n't let me go . |
| 58 | 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 ? |
| 59 | you would n't let me go on me own |
| 60 | ‘ My parents would n't let me leave school , so I got a daily paper-round and weekend work at the local timber yard . |