Example sentences of "allowed [to-vb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They made the usual checks then , because I was allowed to go back at any time if there was a problem , they let me go home . |
| 2 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 3 | The net wickets at Queen 's Park were considered too dangerous and , indeed , the five specialist seamers were allowed to bowl only at unguarded stumps . |
| 4 | Annuals , such as cornflowers , larkspurs or marigolds , can be allowed to seed around at will , creating self-perpetuating colonies . |
| 5 | Their debts are so large that they will be allowed to stumble on at least until the market shows signs of real improvement — maybe several years away . |
| 6 | Swiss midfielder Alain Sutter was allowed to run hard at the Scottish rearguard , forcing Gough to concede a corner . |
| 7 | Liberal Democrat National Heritage spokesman Robert Maclennan said : ‘ Some charities could actually find themselves out of pocket if the lottery is allowed to eat away at their income from raffles , lotteries and donations . ’ |
| 8 | Falati was allowed to stay on at the house after the intervention of Mr Mandela . |
| 9 | Six of the pupils have been allowed to stay on at the seven and a half thousand pounds a year school . |
| 10 | When Apricot was three weeks away from the examinations which were , in theory , to get herself , Belinda and Brenda out of school , away from home and into a preferable social and intellectual environment-Liese was happy enough to fail hers , and be allowed to stay cosily at home and be married off to someone suitable — there was an unusual uproar in Mafeking Street . |
| 11 | And I got the book it must have a bus you know ano , another , an extra bus on because he was allowed to get off at the tonight . |
| 12 | In 1155 , the customs confirmed by Louis VII for Lorris on the royal demesne established that no parishioner should have to pay taxes on food intended for his own consumption or on grain grown by his own labour ; he should be exempt from tolls when he took his produce to the neighbouring towns of Etampes , Orléans , Milly , or Melun ; if required for a chevauchée , he must be allowed to return home at the end of the day ; the only labour service he owed his lord was in carrying seigneurial wine to Orléans twice a year ; and the burgesses of Lorris as a whole were exempted from seigneurial tailles . |
| 13 | The court is not allowed to peer inside at the meanings assigned to those elements , except to find a non-jurisdictional error . |