Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] allow [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many thanks to Pamela Vandyke Price for giving us such a memorable glimpse into the highly specialised world of the wine trade — and thanks also to those husbands and sons who allowed themselves to be pressganged into the responsible task of pouring the samples ! |
| 2 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 3 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 4 | She felt his arms tighten around her in a comforting hug and just for a few seconds she allowed herself the luxury of sinking against him , feeling the strength and the warmth of his body next to her skin . |
| 5 | Despite the tensions of the human rights office , she was always remarkably good-humoured and adored the few social moments she allowed herself . |
| 6 | In 1864 the Lancet warned its medical readers about the dire sexual dangers that awaited women who allowed themselves to be hypnotized : |