Example sentences of "[vb mod] n't let i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we should n't of , mum we should n't of , you should n't let me take cos I had erm |
| 2 | You could n't let me have a little milk ? |
| 3 | In fact , the novelty of being offered information by Sniffy would n't let me miss it . |
| 4 | I like his wolfhounds but my mother would n't let me feed them . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ They would n't let me do anything , ’ Nails said aggressively , and with a fair amount of truth . |
| 6 | And an answer has come up , with no , because they would n't let me do biology , you see . |
| 7 | They would n't let me do a thing . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | She kissed me and would n't let me pay for the ticket . |
| 10 | He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop . |
| 11 | She would n't let me pay for it . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | He always rushed to the phone , he would n't let me answer the phone you see . |
| 14 | My mam moved away but the landlord would n't let me stay on because I was on social security . |
| 15 | And to think when Peggy was little Gran would n't let me switch on the tree lights until Christmas Eve . |
| 16 | Strangely enough , Ken Pitt would n't let me go with him , or his mother for that matter , to receive the award . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I was only sixteen ; they would n't let me go on a world tour . |
| 19 | When I got married , he would n't let me go to visit the Girls ' Club . |
| 20 | Your father would n't let me go to her when she was dying , but he could n't come between us . |
| 21 | 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 ] . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But she would n't let me go . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | you would n't let me go on me own |
| 28 | ‘ My parents would n't let me leave school , so I got a daily paper-round and weekend work at the local timber yard . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ She said she would n't let me come here . ’ |