Example sentences of "was n't allow " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her that what she said was a load of bollocks , and one thing led to another and my mum told me she was n't allowing me to take Natasha with me . |
| 2 | I was n't allowing myself to think too much , but below the conscious level all kinds of adjustments were going on in my head . |
| 3 | He was n't allowed to use one question because the quizmasters said it was impossible to prove the exactness of the answer . |
| 4 | They did n't like us touching the girls at school , so I was n't allowed . |
| 5 | As a scion of the haute bourgeoisie , he was n't allowed to have higher education . |
| 6 | The British Army was n't allowed over , was it ? |
| 7 | She was n't allowed any further . |
| 8 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 9 | She was n't allowed in crowded places where there might be germs . |
| 10 | She was n't allowed to get cold . |
| 11 | She was n't allowed to mix with other children . |
| 12 | Mrs Hollidaye was not her next-of-kin so she was n't allowed to take Dot further than the main entrance where she handed her briskly over to the care of a nurse . |
| 13 | Don McCullin was n't allowed to go , which he thinks was because of the kind of images that he would have produced . |
| 14 | Even the chairman was n't allowed to look in without Chapman 's permission . ’ |
| 15 | The teachers who were involved in spending departmental capitation were now more conscious of the need to use their allowance wisely — spending had to be justified and overspending was n't allowed . |
| 16 | My toes went numb , and at the primary school that we attended I was n't allowed to wear long trousers at my age . |
| 17 | If all else failed I could usually rely on Massimo getting an ego-boosting tip from Helga , who was n't allowed to take part herself . |
| 18 | I was n't allowed to see the rushes . |
| 19 | When I was at school I was so good that I was n't allowed to answer the questions , but had to give the other girls a chance . ’ |
| 20 | Already his fingers were itching for a pencil , though he was n't allowed to draw yet , and in any case he was n't well enough . |
| 21 | I mean , I was n't allowed up late at her age . |
| 22 | I was n't allowed to eat anything except lettuce and celery and dreadful stuff like that . |
| 23 | As it turned out , Mario was n't allowed to race at Monza because he 'd driven a dirt-track race within the previous twenty-four hours , and it was n't until Watkins Glen at the end of 1968 that he first drove in a FI race . |
| 24 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |
| 25 | ‘ I was n't allowed to cry in front of her . |
| 26 | There was a sister watching us all the time , and when we went to walk out into the garden she said it was n't allowed . |
| 27 | British Telecommunications Plc says that the bid by AT&T Co to operate in the UK could speed liberalisation of the key North Atlantic telecommunications route , and reckons that the matter could be settled within months ; AT&T says that it would much preferred to have entered the UK market with a local partner but saw no prospect of that ( it had been negotiating with Cable & Wireless Plc for a stake in Mercury Communications Ltd ; meanwhile each side throws regulatory brickbats at the other , with AT&T complaining that it has to deal — on a confidential basis — with British Telecom on interconnect and access charges where in the US , charges are much lower and have to be applied within the operator 's own business as well — and that simply applying for a licence in the UK costs $70,000 against just $610 in the US ; British Telecom complains that it was n't allowed to increase its 20% stake in McCaw Cellular Communications Inc and achieve a management position — and likely would be barred from buying MCI Communications Inc , where AT&T would be free to buy Vodafone Group Plc — or even Mercury , outright , if it wanted to . |
| 28 | For instance , she was possessive of our eldest son and I was n't allowed to go near him . |
| 29 | But I was n't allowed to take it with me when I left ; it was n't really mine at all . |
| 30 | She never had any politics because she was n't allowed to . |