Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] let [pers pn] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should n't have let him go off by himself ! |
| 2 | ‘ I know we should n't have let him go , but I did n't feel we know him well enough to tell him he was too drunk to drive . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I should n't have let you go in there , ’ Pascoe said . |
| 4 | ‘ You ought not to have let her go with Rose , ’ he said reproachfully . |
| 5 | His arms tightened round her as though he could n't bear to let her go and he kissed her again , hungrily . |
| 6 | ‘ You know better than most , Naylor , that there were some nights when I could n't bear to let him go home at all ! ’ |
| 7 | Yes , I , I was in er , I 'm not sure , I , I think I was in the top class in the junior school and er , without boasting , I was a good scholar and I eventually passed to go to the Q M and me dad could n't afford to let me go . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They knew that if you made schools and universities permanent structures , tooled beautifully in stone and designed in a timeless way to permit the flowering of reflective thought and ancient customs , that society would become attached to them and would n't want to let them go when the cutbacks came . |
| 10 | I would n't have let you go without a fight , though , even if the hell had driven you to it . |
| 11 | If you 'd gone into a , with an opposing team 's colours into a standing zone police would n't have let you go in there let alone wa you wanting to go there . |