Example sentences of "allowed [pron] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I was possessed , but happy to be so , if it allowed me to be with him , to feel him near me for a few hours every day . |
| 2 | It was only when I was involved in learning which allowed me to be creative and to develop without feeling threatened , that statements like this became meaningful . |
| 3 | The Hispanized inhabitants of the lowlands viewed the unconverted pagans as little better than animals , whose lack of sophistication in dealing with a market economy allowed them to be exploited through debt bondage and coerced trade . |
| 4 | Birds that had been reared with siblings were tested in apparatus that allowed them to be given up to six alternatives ( Bateson , 1982a ) . |
| 5 | As an additional sophistication in Superman , both camera and projector were slung from rigs that allowed them to be moved too . |
| 6 | The questions are independent of any evidence and we allowed them to be asked and argued . |
| 7 | And because her bag was light , with only Miss Gemma Dallam 's brown Chinese satin in it , and her hopes as high as she ever allowed them to be , she smiled at everybody else who came her way , the fishmonger , the old-clothes dealer pushing his cart with its flea-ridden bundles ; the organ-grinder whose emaciated monkey , cowering sadly on his shoulder , always caused her a stab of pain : |
| 8 | Indeed , an unusual number of great scientists wrote in terms which allowed them to be readily popularised — sometimes excessively so — Darwin , Pasteur , the physiologists Claude Bernard ( 1813–78 ) and Rudolf Virchow ( 1821–1902 ) and Helmholtz ( 1821–94 ) ( see p. 315 ) , not to mention physicists like William Thompson , Lord Kelvin . |
| 9 | He had thought that because the Government allowed them to be on sale ‘ they must be OK ’ . |
| 10 | Immediately we could sense a rough and rather unpleasant atmosphere , but we allowed ourselves to be swept up the steps of the first house into a howling throng of excitable spectators . |
| 11 | We pressed into the throng and allowed ourselves to be sucked forwards , up the steps . |
| 12 | We will be asked why , given the evidence of the time , when EFTA and the east European countries were queueing up to join the tighter Community that was being proposed , we allowed ourselves to be left outside . |
| 13 | He did n't exactly offer his hand , but when each of them put out theirs he allowed his to be taken and dangled slightly . |
| 14 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 15 | With less alacrity he allowed himself to be guided across the other lane of the avenue , on to the safety of the pavement , and to an oddly impressive square , framed by the Catholic Cathedral , the Opera House , and the old Royal Library . |
| 16 | He watched their departure through a spreading mist , and when the last car had gone and the avenue was silent except for the long sigh of grass , he allowed himself to be taken back to his room . |
| 17 | He laid aside his paper and allowed himself to be lulled into a rhythmical vacuity by the swaying of the ambulance . |
| 18 | Last season a referee allowed himself to be wired up for a League match at The Den to record some of the things he had to put up with from players . |
| 19 | It was as if poets owed an explanation to the audience for being what they were , to bring creatures apart down to the level of ordinary folks ; as if the poet might be indulged his little failings and eccentricities as long as he allowed himself to be democratically mauled in public by thoughtless questioners or — even worse , much worse — by fellow-poets or by those who had poetic pretensions and who found in ‘ question time ’ an opportunity to assuage their jealousy or seek revenge for their own incompetence and mediocrity . |
| 20 | In 437 one of the last pagan aristocrats allowed himself to be converted on his deathbed by his conspicuously pious niece , perhaps from fear of less gentle pressure from the emperor . |
| 21 | In his anxiety he often allowed himself to be beaten down in price . |
| 22 | Cotton allowed himself to be mollified . |
| 23 | At his most impressionable , Nicholas allowed himself to be talked into publicity stunts that horribly backfired . |
| 24 | Martin allowed himself to be magnanimous . |
| 25 | Edouard shrugged , and allowed himself to be drawn along the street towards the Place de la Révolution . |
| 26 | Jenkins allowed himself to be convinced that ‘ some battle had to be fought ’ . |
| 27 | Linguistically , the text presented no challenge , as he allowed himself to be guided by the two translations already in use in the Anglican liturgy , those of the Book of Common prayer psalter , and the Authorised Version of the Bible . |
| 28 | But the men liked the giants ' tricks : one used to swallow and then regurgitate long arrows , as in a circus ; and another , who allowed himself to be called Juan and learned some biblical phrases , caught and ate all the rats and mice on board , to the entertainment of the men and the pleasure of the cook . |
| 29 | Like a trapped animal being crooned out of its last redoubt , Harry , his mind all but blank with the terrible force of an unnameable fear , allowed himself to be coaxed out of the bathroom and into the small hall . |
| 30 | Harry nodded and allowed himself to be led up into Long Acre . |