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Example sentences for "would allow"

  • He should hold Leech for the present, and meantime would be responsible for him; and he would allow no one to touch a hair of his head.

  • If you think that I would allow my daughter to marry that—that young upstart, you don’t know me as well as you did the first day we met.

  • His office was besieged all day with the friends and relatives of the prisoners, offering bail and begging their release, or, at least, that he would allow them to remain in the County until the time for the term of court to begin.

  • Nothing, of course, was at that moment said about Mary; but Lady Arabella was too full of the subject to let him go to London without telling him that Mary was ready to recede if only he would allow her to do so.

  • He would do this, and he would allow no one to help him.

  • If I had a theatre," he said, "I would allow no one to be present at performances except my own children; but these idiotic Christians do not know how to uphold their own dignity.

  • In the same manner, I would allow the Italian Opera to lend our English Musick as much as may grace and soften it, but never entirely to annihilate and destroy it.

  • Her hope was that Miss Prettyman would allow her to go back to her teaching, but it had come to be understood among them all that nothing was to be said on that subject till the trial should be over.

  • The major never made inquiries after the august family, or would allow it to appear that he was conscious of being shone upon by the wife of a marquis.

  • Therese told me that the wine did not cost her anything, as the son of the Rotterdam burgomaster furnished her with it, and that he would sup with us the next day if I would allow him to be present.

  • A curled and scented young officer, passing by our room, the door of which was open, stopped short, and with unblushing politeness asked us if we would allow him to join our party.

  • I told him that I had been free for the last twenty-four hours, but that to shew my gratitude for his friendly confidence I would feel honoured if he would allow me to keep him company.

  • He added that if I would allow him to send me some of his excellent chocolate he would come and breakfast with us.

  • We accordingly all got up and shouldered our packs, for neither Harry nor I would allow Aboh to carry our any longer; not that we thought he would attempt to run away with them.

  • The captain had interfered so little with us, that we hoped he would allow us to go on shore, and that we might be able from thence to make our way down the river, and get on board a lawful trader or man-of-war.

  • We were unwilling to lose the whole of that, and we applied to Mr. Grierson to allow us to continue to fish at the Ness; and he told us that if we paid three guineas of liberty money, he would allow us to fish there.

  • In the previous year they asked me if I would allow him to go to the beach, and I said I would rather not, as I required his services myself; but this season they asked me for him again.

  • If the bargain has been such that it would allow us any little profit on it, then we give it all in money, if they want it in that way.

  • From there he had walked up to the Close with Martha, and now was having a few last words with her before he would allow her to return to the house.

  • Mr. Groschut, who was a younger man, knew that it behoved him to be all things to all men, and that he could not be efficacious among sinners unless he would allow himself to be seen in their paths.

  • If only he would allow himself to be taught that nice things are nice!

  • But if I would allow #5 a year more of her, she would be obliged to bring the child to my governess's house as often as we desired, or we should come down and look at it, and see how well she used it.

  • It is further evident, that no fresh land can be taken into cultivation till rents have risen, or would allow of a rise upon what is already cultivated.

  • It follows therefore as a direct and necessary consequence, that it can never answer to take fresh land of a poorer quality into cultivation, till rents have risen or would allow of a rise, on what is already cultivated.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    doing right; each sheet; easily recognized; next day; would allow; would ask; would become; would break; would cease; would expect; would fain; would here; would need; would never; would permit; would play; would require; would result; would seem; would stop; would talk; would then; would think; would wait; would write; would yield