Example sentences of "allow myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shivering at the table and peering down at the paper under the stumpy candle I allowed myself to wander off the straight path through the dark trees . |
| 2 | You leapt for the cleaner banks and I allowed myself to be carried on by the filth of deceit , of shame , and of a guilt that even now I can not put into public or private words . |
| 3 | Then I allowed myself the luxury to think ‘ Hey , yeah , at 30 you 're not such a failure after all . ’ |
| 4 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 5 | In this position , with white-coated radiographers scuttling about snapping X-ray plates into some dark slot beneath me , I allowed myself to consider progress so fat . |
| 6 | I allowed myself a brief glance at Alison 's ample contours . |
| 7 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 8 | I was n't completely heart-free during those years ; sometimes I allowed myself to be fooled that I loved someone , but when it came to the point of saying " yes " to anything final there was always the small honest inner voice which jeered " For life ? |
| 9 | I allowed myself to think it was risky , and because of that , it felt right . |
| 10 | Ever since I ran away from Thornfield , Mr Rochester had remained in my thoughts , and now , as I stood at my cottage door that first evening , looking at the quiet fields , I allowed myself to imagine again the life I could have had with him in his little white house in the south of France . |
| 11 | ‘ I allowed myself to be talked into riding a horse by a stuntman , ’ she says . |
| 12 | I knew that the Cross would drag me to Cambridge if I allowed myself to be dragged , but I refused . |
| 13 | And then in some subtle way I allowed myself to be dominated by you . |
| 14 | But it was me who allowed myself to get fat , so it was me who had to make the effort to get slim . |
| 15 | Because instead of just letting it go I allowed myself to get involved . |
| 16 | I 've always thought of myself as a sensible person , yet I allowed myself to do that . |
| 17 | Or should I perhaps sit down in Salzburg with the empty hope of some better fortune , let Wolfgang grow up , and allow myself and my children to be made fools of until I reach the age which prevents me from travelling and until he attains the age and physical appearance which no longer attract admiration for his merits ? |
| 18 | This present trip represents , after all , a rare opportunity for me to savour to the full the many splendours of the English countryside , and I know I shall greatly regret it later if I allow myself to become unduly diverted . |
| 19 | ‘ The only little luxury I allow myself , Myles , apart from a nip of brandy during the cold winter nights . ’ |
| 20 | Will I have a good enough share of time if I allow myself to listen first and tell second ? |
| 21 | If I allow myself to move one single muscle I shall walk across that floor and tear him apart . |
| 22 | Allow myself to be spirited off to Germany where I assassinate Hitler at the first opportunity ? ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I was certainly not going to allow myself to suffer all that hell again . |
| 25 | But I was determined not to allow myself to be hauled in like a helpless fish as he reeled in his capable line . |
| 26 | But I would wake up , startled and guilty , horrorstruck that I had somehow managed to allow myself to get out of control . |
| 27 | But there 's never been the reason to allow myself that luxury . |
| 28 | When I look back on my marriage I ca n't believe what a fool I was to allow myself to stay in that situation . |
| 29 | ‘ But it 's not in my nature to allow myself to be altered by another . |
| 30 | ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured , ’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it . |