Example sentences of "n't [verb] let [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was doing alright myself , I should n't 've let him do it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The audience did n't want to let him go and he returned to sing a little jazz , leaving the stage to rapturous applause . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My parents did n't want to let me go , but I begged them and promised to come back very quickly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Father reached out for love and did n't want to let it go . |
| 9 | " You do n't want to let it worry you . |
| 10 | " I do n't want to let you go , but d' you know , I feel so ridiculously happy . |
| 11 | It would n't do to let him see her relief and gratitude . |
| 12 | She had been neglected and he ached because of it , but it would n't do to let her know that . |
| 13 | He said they were good to him whenever they saw him but often he did n't choose to let them see him . |
| 14 | Christ , she wo n't dare let me live . |
| 15 | She did n't dare let it happen . |
| 16 | ‘ Then he wo n't mind letting you look at his paybook , will he ? |
| 17 | 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 . ’ ) |
| 18 | When you do come in , do n't hesitate to let me know . |
| 19 | We have done our utmost to provide you with the best possible product but if you have any complaints or suggestions as to how it could be improved do n't hesitate to let us know . |
| 20 | His clasp loosened a little , but he was n't going to let her escape . |
| 21 | he was n't going to let them go , I mean we were n't told any of that on the news , there was n't a word of that , it only be that from the papers that we 'd got |
| 22 | The woman who was selling the magnificent object told me that it was only a month old and her old man , who had been killed by the Huns , had paid three quid for it : she was n't going to let it go for anything less . |
| 23 | ‘ It must have been obvious that we were n't going to let it slip it seemed that way to me , ’ said Morrissey . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't plan to let it go that far . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | All right , so it 's a mystery , and there 's not a lot you can do to get to the heart of it yet , but you do n't have to let it get to you . |
| 27 | I would n't have let him give it to me . |
| 28 | ‘ You should n't have let him go off by himself ! |
| 29 | ‘ I know we should n't have let him go , but I did n't feel we know him well enough to tell him he was too drunk to drive . ’ |
| 30 | I should n't have let him have the key . |