Example sentences of "allows [pn reflx] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Finally , he allows himself to marry one of inferior rank and connections , against his family 's wishes , because he is in love . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |