Example sentences of "have allow himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see the whole chapter as a subtle but misconceived footnote to Crime and Punishment ; in these pages , instead of brushing past Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov in his return upon the underground man , Dostoevsky has allowed himself to be obstructed by them , and the result is a Stavrogin who compounds Raskolnikov 's bracing himself to enter the police station ‘ as a man ’ and confess with Svidrigailov 's reaching out in all directions , including the far extremes of moral and physical debauchery , in the hope that something , it does n't matter what , will make him unbored . |
| 2 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |
| 3 | He could not imagine now , in this brilliant daylight , how he had allowed himself to be so weak . |
| 4 | Either the Führer 's statement , the report went on , meant that he had allowed himself to be badly deceived and was not , therefore , the genius he was always alleged to be ; or he had intentionally lied to the people about rising war production , knowing all the time that saboteurs were at work . |
| 5 | He had allowed himself to be carried away . |
| 6 | He had been discovered by a member of the crew and rather than be handed over to US Immigration officials had allowed himself to be buggered by three of the sailors , including the Captain . |
| 7 | Dexter had allowed himself to be hypnotised and still remembered staring into those wide eyes , as blue as the top of a ballpoint pen , with pupils that shrank and swelled in time to the man 's words . |
| 8 | The first time because he had allowed himself to be called away in the middle of things and had n't been able to supervise the men properly . |