Example sentences of "not [verb] to let him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The audience did n't want to let him go and he returned to sing a little jazz , leaving the stage to rapturous applause . |
| 5 | It would n't do to let him see her relief and gratitude . |
| 6 | I certainly do n't have to let him take advantage of it or let him bludgeon me into a marriage that would be power-based and intolerable . |
| 7 | ‘ You know better than most , Naylor , that there were some nights when I could n't bear to let him go home at all ! ’ |