Example sentences of "allowing themselves to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of those kittenish creatures he remembered from the films of his childhood in the Fifties , clad in waist-high , baby-doll nightdresses , women who seemed to enjoy nothing more than lying back among the yellow nylon sheets and allowing themselves to be strangled . |
| 2 | Christians , especially , should be cautious about allowing themselves to be influenced by people who do not have the same life goals . |
| 3 | The remaining two men received sentences of nine months ( suspended for two years ) for allowing themselves to be carried in a stolen vehicle . |
| 4 | Two youths will appear at Sutton Coldfield Youth Court , West Midlands , today accused of aggravated vehicle taking , allowing themselves to be carried in a stolen vehicle and having no insurance . |
| 5 | He argued that the purpose of the age of consent included in the Wolfenden proposals was ‘ not only to deter the old from corrupting the young , but to deter the young from allowing themselves to be corrupted and , furthermore , from misbehaving with each other ’ . |
| 6 | Also , the trio have just been offered the chance of following in the footsteps of The Osmonds and The Jackson Five by allowing themselves to be made into a Saturday morning TV cartoon series . |
| 7 | Just as the sociolinguist prizes spontaneous , unmonitored speech , the professional photographer of human subjects prizes unposed photographs ; but most people are very chary of allowing themselves to be photographed . |
| 8 | The youths , aged 15 and 16 , were remanded by magistrates at Sutton Coldfield , West Midlands , on charges of aggravated vehicle taking , allowing themselves to be carried in a stolen vehicle and having no insurance . |