Example sentences of "allows [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EVERY time that jaunty music to the children 's television series Captain Pugwash is broadcast , Johnny Pearson doubtless allows himself a smile . |
| 2 | Thus even if an actor , following Stanislavsky , allows himself to become emotionally engaged during a performance his emotional response , mediated by dramatic form , can only be an approximation to the character 's supposed emotional state . |
| 3 | Strephon allows himself to be duped by the charms of this woman who , in Swift 's view , seems immortal because she appears clean . |
| 4 | In a compromising philosophy he allows himself violence against property but never against life , human or otherwise . |
| 5 | In concert , Pollini 's almost super-human control is just as evident , yet he normally allows himself a degree of flexbility which one rarely encounters in the studio . |
| 6 | He allows himself a carefully selected smile , humorous , equal to equal , and goes on , the ease of his words belied by the hurry of his delivery and the force of his grip on her arm . |
| 7 | Ballesteros rarely allows himself time away from the game . |
| 8 | Each of those subjects is , in fact , a willing volunteer and is an extrovert by nature , and so allows himself to become part of the entertainment . |
| 9 | But all that we are requiring of him is that , widening his viewpoint from himself to the community , he has taken account of the communal effects of theft , before , as himself not the weigher but the balance , he allows himself finally to settle against or in favour of taking the money . |
| 10 | The second half of section 12(1) deals with persons who knowing that a conveyance has been taken without authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 11 | Jim Bob , thousands of miles from home , still nurturing that Fagin-style goatee , sits backstage at Boston 's Paradise Club and allows himself a crooked smirk . |
| 12 | The Funeral March 's central trio becomes a true benediction , with a good deal less de- synchronization than one might have expected , and in his light-fingered whirl through the phantom finale Cortot allows himself just one furious gust before the final explosion . |
| 13 | He discreetly allows himself to be steered . |
| 14 | Flaubert allows himself a private smile : ‘ It represented the Republic , or Progress , or Civilisation , in the figure of Jesus Christ , driving a locomotive through a virgin forest . ’ |
| 15 | The incommodiousness of Scotch windows keeps them very closely shut … even in houses well built and elegantly furnished , a stranger may be sometimes forgiven if he allows himself to wish for fresher air . ’ |
| 16 | Paul , in these verses , allows himself the chance to look back with his readers , and see the results of twenty years of Christian service . |
| 17 | Nevertheless the anthropologist 's favourite stamping ground , " the study of kinship " , becomes arid and thoroughly misleading if the anthropologist concerned ever allows himself to forget that the domestic household , which stands at the core of any kinship system when viewed from the inside , is a social machine for the production of the means of subsistence and the reproduction of human beings . |
| 18 | Section 12(1) states : … a person shall be guilty of an offence if , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority , he takes any conveyance for his own or another 's use or knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 19 | ( c ) " Allows himself to be carried in or on it " . |
| 20 | This process is analogous to a buyer at an auction paying more than he can afford because he allows himself to be swept along by the bidding . |
| 21 | Finally , he allows himself to marry one of inferior rank and connections , against his family 's wishes , because he is in love . |
| 22 | While Mrs Thatcher and the Soviet leader settle down to a lunch of veal glazed with mustard and rosemary , washed down by Chateau Margot , Dr. Tomlin only allows himself French water and sea salt . |
| 23 | But what stands stark and clear , above all speculation , arguments , discussions and justifications , is the fact that anything which allows itself to be used to sustain such atrocious misery can not possibly be anything but a travesty of a ‘ religion ’ within the meaning of that word that all right-minded and honourable people intensely desire . |
| 24 | Divergent sexuality , it is clear even now , is only permissible as long as it allows itself to be stolen , as long as it conforms to existing industry patterns and dominant sexual stereotypes . |
| 25 | A group of women can take in another who is thoroughly miserable , and if she allows herself to join in , she can find herself much restored by the general strength there . |
| 26 | The once vivacious teenager now rarely allows herself a smile , and her lively personality has become buried by the strain of living up to everyone 's expectations . |
| 27 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 28 | A cup of tea may be her usual tipple , but on such a special day , Nancy allows herself a drop of something a little bit stronger . |
| 29 | She allows herself to have no possessions , only two sets of clothing and anything else she gets from charities goes straight into making homes and clinics which provide free health care to poor mothers for their children . |