Example sentences of "[adj] to allow [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kerry Court that he was now prepared to allow himself to be sent back . |
| 2 | The second — much less scientific — is that the arguments put forward in popular potboilers supporting such a notion are in general so specious that one is embarrassed to allow oneself to be associated with them . |
| 3 | It is possible that wise Neanderthal men and women were only too delighted to allow themselves to be killed and eaten , on the basis that their souls would live on in newly inhabited bodies . |
| 4 | But it is dangerous to allow yourself to be taken away from the clients . |
| 5 | BP ran into some rough weather in 1992 but the company is too strong and resilient to allow itself to be blown off course by the recent squalls . |
| 6 | So far , she 'd done the absolute minimum necessary to allow herself to camp in the house overnight . |
| 7 | Ramsay was in two minds as to whether it was wise to allow himself to be bottled up in the town when his place arguably was with the Regent ; but he decided that he might possibly play a more useful part here as Seton 's assistant — and he ought to be able to escape by boat , at night , if necessary . |