Example sentences of "allowed [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I visited Voting Right , Laurentide Ice and Upper Gumtree , who all graciously allowed me to dip into their drink . |
| 2 | ‘ We have not achieved our goal yet , but the sale of the first plot allowed me to put in services for the proposed houses , ’ said Earl Haig . |
| 3 | As a student I supplemented my grant by joining the Officer Training Corps , which not only brought me many good friends but also allowed me to participate in various outdoor activities such as abseiling , pot-holing , parachuting and canoeing . |
| 4 | And I never went to hospital because me cousin was a nurse who 'd er you know got married and so she er proffered to nurse me which she did and er the then er health people in allowed me to stay at home because of this you see and I was at home and er that was in nineteen sixteen . |
| 5 | The teachers were in on my research from the beginning , erm I originally gained the co-operation of the headmaster — he allowed me to come into the school — and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative , in fact , far more cooperative than I had a really had a right to expect . |
| 6 | I originally gained the co-operated of the headmaster , who allowed me to come into the school , and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative in fact , far more co-operative than I really high a right to expect . |
| 7 | It allowed me to work for up to a minute or so rather than seconds , as with a sable , before reloading . |
| 8 | My mother was a woman of great piety and orthodoxy ; and when she allowed me to look into her forest depths I found them good . |
| 9 | On another occasion when I was holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia while it poured with rain , an ordnance survey map , my first hand knowledge of the area and an illustrated catalogue of Turner 's work allowed me to prepare for locating the sites where he worked . |
| 10 | In the presence of Mick and Paddy , I acted normally , but when I was alone , and especially in difficulty , the gates which allowed me to escape from convention were opened . |
| 11 | When we got to the market , for the first time he allowed me to bargain with the dealers . |
| 12 | As far as I was concerned he could have my every piece of silver if he just allowed me to gaze at his daughter . |
| 13 | An elaborate version of pass the parcel , which allowed me to travel around the southern part of the state doing workshops in a variety of places . |
| 14 | ‘ The Indians who initally came here in the Sixties had skills and capital which allowed them to move into small businesses , ’ said Dr Owen , research fellow at the Centre for Ethnic Relations at Warwick University . |
| 15 | This allowed them to include in their theory dissimilarities in free volume between polymer and solvent , together with the corresponding interactions . |
| 16 | Alessandro Striggio sent them his compositions from Florence where their master , the Duke of Ferrara , also allowed them to participate in masques . |
| 17 | Technological improvements allowed them to capitalize on that wealth in the 1920s . |
| 18 | Edgar thanked the Danes for their support and allowed them to live under such laws as they might choose , and it must be significant that Swegen landed in Lincolnshire when he made his bid for the kingship in 1013 , and that in 1066 King Harald of Norway made for York , where he had hopes that the citizens would assist him in his endeavours . |
| 19 | It was the ICF who realised that looking casual allowed them to travel in large numbers and remain undetected by the police . |
| 20 | The social mobility of the era allowed them to rise from apparently mundane working class communities to live a more glamorous life in the company of the rich and famous . |
| 21 | In England older men could get contract work for hedging and ditching , maintaining public spaces , or minor building repairs , which allowed them to work at their own pace . |
| 22 | This allowed them to distinguish between the two separate processes of adsorption of viruses onto cells , and actual entry into the cells . |
| 23 | Both HWIM and Hearsay-II used an architecture which allowed them to experiment with alternative means of getting started . |
| 24 | ‘ Who allowed you to sleep in this room ? |
| 25 | There was a thing called a B licence which allowed you to go within about twenty five miles with somebody else 's goods . |
| 26 | He allowed her to claim against the Huntingdon Health Authority responsible for the hospital where the operation was performed in December 1982 . |
| 27 | Later , she gave up the childminding and took on some secretarial work in the mornings which still allowed her to continue with her lunch-time job . |
| 28 | Although the radio monitoring system used by Siobhan Fahey allowed her to indulge in some frenzied dancing during the songs , it did her no favours in the vocal projection stakes . |
| 29 | Now she had developed a self-assurance and experience which allowed her to perform on the public stage . |
| 30 | He allowed her to go through everything without so much as a single interruption . |