Example sentences of "had allow himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not imagine now , in this brilliant daylight , how he had allowed himself to be so weak . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had allowed himself to be carried away . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |