Example sentences of "not want 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 | 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My parents did n't want to let me go , but I begged them and promised to come back very quickly . |
| 8 | So , I 'd an appointment in town at the hairdressers and for a legwax and that you do n't want to let yourself go I do n't want him to get back and catch me with my knickers down and my nail varnish all chipped … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Father reached out for love and did n't want to let it go . |
| 12 | " You do n't want to let it worry you . |
| 13 | " I do n't want to let you go , but d' you know , I feel so ridiculously happy . |