Example sentences of "[pron] been allow [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can honestly say now I do not feel I have subsequently ever lost a race I would have won had I been allowed to use the whip . ’ |
| 2 | But nor had she been allowed to use the telephone or leave the office , except for one visit to the toilet down the corridor accompanied by a sour-faced secretary who weighed at least twelve stone and insisted she leave the door ajar . |
| 3 | If so , the Deverils were still proscribed so why had she been allowed to enter England and , undoubtedly , to travel to Godstowe , a sensitive place where a former royal mistress had been incarcerated . |
| 4 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 5 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path . |
| 6 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path ; certainly the comments of passers-by were very favourable , most saying it was high time something was done , that the path was in a shocking state , etc . |
| 7 | I doubt that these young men , had they been allowed to form their own world view and their own understanding of national history , would have voted for this bloodshed . |
| 8 | Had it been allowed to thrive , the whole sad subsequent history of Ireland might well have been different but , alas , it was not . |
| 9 | What Ronnie might have achieved , had he been allowed to race on completely even terms , is a matter of pure speculation . |