Example sentences of "[adv] allows [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of those subjects is , in fact , a willing volunteer and is an extrovert by nature , and so allows himself to become part of the entertainment . |
| 2 | While Mrs Thatcher and the Soviet leader settle down to a lunch of veal glazed with mustard and rosemary , washed down by Chateau Margot , Dr. Tomlin only allows himself French water and sea salt . |
| 3 | Ballesteros rarely allows himself time away from the game . |
| 4 | The once vivacious teenager now rarely allows herself a smile , and her lively personality has become buried by the strain of living up to everyone 's expectations . |
| 5 | He discreetly allows himself to be steered . |
| 6 | In concert , Pollini 's almost super-human control is just as evident , yet he normally allows himself a degree of flexbility which one rarely encounters in the studio . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the anthropologist 's favourite stamping ground , " the study of kinship " , becomes arid and thoroughly misleading if the anthropologist concerned ever allows himself to forget that the domestic household , which stands at the core of any kinship system when viewed from the inside , is a social machine for the production of the means of subsistence and the reproduction of human beings . |
| 8 | EVERY time that jaunty music to the children 's television series Captain Pugwash is broadcast , Johnny Pearson doubtless allows himself a smile . |