Example sentences of "why do [not/n't] [pers pn] let " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why do n't we let her go if that 's what she wants . |
| 2 | Now , why do n't you let young Morton take you home ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Why do n't you let me take you out , Kate ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Why do n't you let me take over the accounts ? ’ |
| 5 | Obviously eager to show how indispensable he himself was , James offered : ‘ Why do n't you let me deal with this , Stephen ? |
| 6 | ‘ For God 's sake , Peter , ’ she said with a small and surprising explosion of irritation , ‘ why do n't you let yourself go for once ? ’ |
| 7 | Why do n't you let me go now , before the situation gets even worse ? ’ |
| 8 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , why do n't you let me demonstrate — ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But why do n't you let me cook it ? |
| 11 | one thing and another and I said oh I do n't know , and there are Sunday and said look about taking Matthew , why do n't you let him go and I said well it 's a , it 's a long time , you know for |
| 12 | Listen why do n't you let us pull the door to nan |