Example sentences of "allow him [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coghill allowed him to understudy the leading part , ‘ the complicated sex-driven Puritan ’ , Angelo . |
| 2 | It also allowed him to include a wide range of ‘ non-sacred ’ ideas and images which colour our lives from the cradle to the grave , not least those of loving and sexuality . |
| 3 | So the cock and the hen allowed him to take a glistening burnished black and emerald feather and a soft creamy-white feather , and he bade them all good-bye and went into the clearing , and called to the West Wind , holding up his key . |
| 4 | Dubček 's undoing was supposing that his personal stature allowed him to adopt a creative notion of his responsibilities and depart from the orthodox notion of these things . |
| 5 | Polygnotos , it is clear from Pausanias 's description , took two important steps which allowed him to express the classical spirit without the constrictions of the archaic tradition . |
| 6 | In front of Fraser , Ramsay himself had to be more restrained than he would have wished , but at least Agnes 's cheerful kisses allowed him to bestow a like greeting on her sister , Fraser looking on somewhat askance . |
| 7 | As Paul Preston writes , " the United Nations had given [ Franco ] a winning hand to play , allowing him to persuade the Spanish people that he was their heroic leader in yet another foreign attempt to destroy Spain " . |
| 8 | In an interview in The Washington Post published on May 30 , Barry admitted having smoked crack but blamed the federal authorities for having led him on and accused them of having tried to " kill " him by allowing him to consume the illegal drug . |
| 9 | The following month the legal process smiled more kindly on Charlie Nicholas when a three year drink driving ban was shortened by a year allowing him to buy a new £11,000 Porsche . |
| 10 | According to the patient , she had made patently clear her refusal to allow him to perform a vaginal or rectal examination because of a history of child sexual abuse by her doctor father . |
| 11 | However , by retaining his flexibility of action the Secretary of State has drafted the Bill so as to allow him to weaken the necessary protections . |
| 12 | He called for new legislation to allow him to appoint a new justice in addition to each one who had reached the age of 70 ( up to a limit of six new justices ) . |
| 13 | This DC is the authority given by LIFESPAN to the user to allow him to update the new package . |
| 14 | ‘ This lady , ’ said Paviour , stepping aside to allow him to follow the mild gesture that indicated Charlotte , ‘ pulled you out . |
| 15 | He increased his speed until he was running flat out , buying a few seconds of precious time to allow him to find a good defence position . |
| 16 | And Durham force head Frank Taylor pledged that if he was successful in persuading the Home Office to allow him to recruit an extra 20 officers then all of them would be directly employed on the streets in the sub-divisions . |
| 17 | Durham Chief Constable Frank Taylor pledged that if he was successful in persuading the Home Office to allow him to recruit an extra 20 officers then all of them would be directly employed on the streets in the sub-divisions . |
| 18 | Satan was never wronged nor despised in Heaven ; the exaltation of the son was meant for the good of all the angels but he was so stupid his pride would not allow him to tolerate the unintentional insult . |
| 19 | His portrayal is the only real entertainment in a right load of old cobblers which has George Corraface as the Genoese explorer who finally gets Queen Isabella ( Rachel Ward ) to stump up the cash which will allow him to seek an alternative route to the spice-rich Indies . |