Example sentences of "[was/were] allowed [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is literally no limit to the abuses which might creep in if such a practice were allowed to go on without restriction . |
| 2 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 3 | In a further attempt to restrict the role of local authorities in housing , council house tenants were given the right to switch to an alternative landlord — either in the form of a housing association or an approved private sector landlord — in other words , they were allowed to opt out of local authority control . |
| 4 | I mean if you were n't in at whe when you were in your third and fourth year , it was a four year er training , er in third and fourth years you were allowed to stay out till ten o'clock at night . |
| 5 | Most were allowed to stay out till 11.30 during the week and as late as they liked at weekends . |
| 6 | Last time if you were n't sure which to make we were allowed to come up with about ten papers |
| 7 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 8 | She was allowed to talk about herself if he was allowed to rave on about black men . |
| 9 | ‘ They made the usual checks then , because I was allowed to go back at any time if there was a problem , they let me go home . |
| 10 | It was only because her mother approved so strongly of Pogo that she was allowed to go out with him to places like this , and then , as often as not , her mother insisted that Aubrey went too . |
| 11 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 12 | Auxiliary nurse , Eddie Gilfoyle , who is accused of murdering his wife , Paula , 32 , also said he was allowed to help out in surgical operations at the hospital where he worked . |
| 13 | Falati was allowed to stay on at the house after the intervention of Mr Mandela . |
| 14 | Palace experienced that at Liverpool on Tuesday , when Mike Marsh was allowed to stay on after a professional foul on George Ndah . |
| 15 | The gaoler was appointed , made his living as best as he could from bribes , favours , anxious relatives and profits from the already meagre food allocation — and was allowed to get on with it . |
| 16 | And I got the book it must have a bus you know ano , another , an extra bus on because he was allowed to get off at the tonight . |
| 17 | It was only last summer that she was allowed to get back in the swing . |
| 18 | I WAS more startled at the amount Mr Lamont was allowed to run up on his card rather than his doing it in the first place . |