Example sentences of "not [verb] let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I did not want to let her go .
2 The Minister has told us today that he does not want to let us know what his proposals will be when he goes into negotiations .
3 If you would like me to send you further copies of these agreements , please do not hesitate to let me know .
4 Others , perhaps the most doubting , may not dare to let themselves know their qualms .
5 I 'm not going to let her slide out of it or I do n't get my scoop . ’
6 But Arabella Buckley , with a murderer who was not ‘ one of us ’ almost under her thumb , was not going to let him go so easily .
7 There was a moment of sudden realisation that we 'd spent four months raising this cash and we were not going to let it go that easily .
8 ‘ You 're not going to let it go out , though ? ’
9 And er then they 're not going to let anybody go there are they ?
10 I 'm not going to let you go . ’
11 Mummy 's not going to let you fall
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 I should not have let her attend that ridiculous affair , but she insisted . ’
15 None the less , he wrote , I should not have let her see it .
16 at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past
17 ‘ Your leg — and the Teller 's weakness — would not have let you stay with it . ’
18 Isambard did not mean to let him go for money , and was ensuring that the crown should not intervene to take him out of his hands perforce .
19 Showing they do not mean to let anyone sleep on the job in creating better relations , pupils of Brackenhoe School , Middlesbrough , organised a bed push for South Cleveland Hospital 's baby monitor appeal .
20 Ceauşescu did not mean to let it come again .
21 ‘ She confessed she had not meant to let me see it or sign it and said Joseph had promised to take it to America and sell it under her own name .
22 But there is a mysterious group of British engineers , who are not allowed to let us know what they 're doing — I suppose they are helping the Chinese build a factory or something — anyway , it has been refreshing to hear a homely Lancs. accent at the next table .
23 ‘ You ought not to have let her go with Rose , ’ he said reproachfully .
24 Coming upon me as it did , however , in the midst of such a busy period , I could not afford to let it preoccupy me unduly , and I thus decided I should resolve it at the earliest opportunity .
25 They could not afford to let it fall apart .
26 He could be quite casual in his attitude to his wife 's anxiety and more often than not failed to let her know when he was delayed .
27 And I was doing alright myself , I should n't 've let him do it .
28 When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go .
29 The audience did n't want to let him go and he returned to sing a little jazz , leaving the stage to rapturous applause .
30 Last night , Ena Gilmour , Raymond Gilmour 's mother , of Hawthorn Avenue , Johnstone , said : ‘ I will allow myself to be slightly optimistic , I do n't put it any stronger than that because I have been let down before and I do n't want to let myself go too far this time . ’
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