Example sentences of "allowed [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1829 a convicted prisoner petitioned that he should have been allowed to free himself from a charge of robbery by rendering compensation . |
| 2 | The nice people are still there to enjoy the music , although perhaps not as much as if they 'd been allowed to express themselves and some of the nasty people are beginning to appreciate the actual music . |
| 3 | a person in a fiduciary position … is not … entitled to make a profit ; he is not allowed to put himself in a position where his interest and duty conflict . |
| 4 | Motor racing authorities say fans ca n't be allowed to put themselves in danger . |
| 5 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |
| 6 | Nothing needs doing , it is all allowed to undo itself . |
| 7 | She entered her life 's work full of joy at being allowed to give herself wholly to the Lord 's service . " |
| 8 | She was anxious that Swire Sugden should not be allowed to spread himself around like a malignant tumour . |
| 9 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 10 | They weanted to know why David Pratley was allowed to hang himself despite warnings that he might try to take his life . |
| 11 | It would be in keeping with Mr Premium to lament that a young man must now be at the years of discretion before he is allowed to ruin himself . |
| 12 | What about the sweatshops of Korea , or the rich Kuwaiti women who buy merely for their own pleasure and hide their couture gowns under their abayas because they are not allowed to display themselves … it 's a far cry from the fashion world as it is usually depicted , it could make fascinating copy . |
| 13 | ‘ A mortgagee is allowed to reimburse himself out of the mortgaged property for all costs , charges and expenses reasonably and properly incurred in enforcing or preserving his security . |
| 14 | It was just assumed that she had some ulterior motive in coming here , and she was n't allowed to defend herself . |
| 15 | Although the Harter Act compromise was seemingly counterintuitive ( how could the carrier be allowed to exempt itself for its own mistakes of navigation and management ) , it became one of the most internationally influential laws ever enacted by the United States Congress . |
| 16 | One IWC official has pointed out that , since Norway formally objected to the moratorium when originally passed in 1982 , it is allowed to exempt itself from the terms . |
| 17 | It was the custom at that time that when a worker married he was allowed to make himself a chair in the company 's time ; this was called a ‘ marriage chair ’ . |
| 18 | I believe that if Piggy had not had so many physical defects he would have been allowed to make himself heard . |
| 19 | A battle for power in the English shires has reached Westminster , where one MP has argued that his city at least should be allowed to govern itself without interference . |