Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The true collector should never allow himself to be beguiled into buying an unworthy copy of a book . |
| 2 | Field Marshal Lord Wavell was strong in his support for the S.A.S. He had commented that one should never allow oneself to be ‘ trammelled by the bonds of orthodoxy ’ . |
| 3 | We should never allow ourselves to be swayed by our feelings . |
| 4 | You must never allow yourself to be crowded out , neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary . |
| 5 | When the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League was formed by Ho in 1925 its nucleus consisted of Vietnamese terrorists , the Tam Tam Xa , who had already attempted the assassination of a French Governor-General on a state visit to Canton , and Canton became a staging-post for the return of young Vietnamese revolutionaries who might now declare themselves to be Marxists as well . |
| 6 | He 'll never allow himself to be taken alive . |
| 7 | After it 's all over , we 'll never allow ourselves to be separated again … |
| 8 | In truth , she should be grateful to him for coming to her rescue — instead she could barely bring herself to be civil . |
| 9 | But we could never bring ourselves to be bedded by them , though there was a little gypsy flower-girl with her gilded basket of faded carnations , stolen from a grave , who announced a sudden passion for Dana . |
| 10 | When , ultimately , they fail in their efforts to give up drink or drug use , they become exceedingly fearful and ashamed and may even believe themselves to be insane . |
| 11 | They could all swim like fish and occasionally , just for the hell of it , he and one or two of his braver friends would deliberately allow themselves to be cut off from their home bank by one of the smaller , less fearsome tides . |
| 12 | And after her experience with Tony she would never allow herself to be imposed on that way again . |
| 13 | But with understanding had come a growing determination that she would never fall into the same trap — would never allow herself to be ruled by a foolish , hoping heart . |
| 14 | The prosecution will then know themselves to be in a position to prove identification from the outset , and a parade will only come into the picture if Spratt specifically requests one . |
| 15 | I will vow to you that I will never suffer myself to be engaged without your approbation . |
| 16 | I 've an aversion to tale-bearing from my schooldays , but the man 's such a public menace we can hardly allow ourselves to be deterred by scruples of that sort . ’ |