Example sentences of "not [verb] to let [pers pn] [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 | I 'm not going to let her slide out of it or I do n't get my scoop . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're not going to let it go out , though ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'm not going to let you go . ’ |
| 9 | Mummy 's not going to let you fall |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ceauşescu did not mean to let it come again . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They could not afford to let it fall apart . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The audience did n't want to let him go and he returned to sing a little jazz , leaving the stage to rapturous applause . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | My parents did n't want to let me go , but I begged them and promised to come back very quickly . |
| 21 | We 're trying at the moment to get in non-conformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisation that they 've been involved in , or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 22 | We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 23 | Father reached out for love and did n't want to let it go . |
| 24 | " You do n't want to let it worry you . |
| 25 | " I do n't want to let you go , but d' you know , I feel so ridiculously happy . |
| 26 | It would n't do to let him see her relief and gratitude . |
| 27 | She had been neglected and he ached because of it , but it would n't do to let her know that . |
| 28 | He said they were good to him whenever they saw him but often he did n't choose to let them see him . |
| 29 | It was from a consultant psychiatrist from the Twickenham Area Health Authority who was fulsome in her compliments then added , ‘ Should you ever need any free psychiatric advice , please do n't hesitate to let me know . ’ ) |
| 30 | When you do come in , do n't hesitate to let me know . |