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Example sentences for "allowed them"

  • Though Pyrrhus would not accede to the terms proposed for ransoming the Roman prisoners, he allowed them to go to Rome, for the season, to be present at the celebration of the fĂȘtes of the Saturnalia.

  • He subdued the Latins, and having first settled them in the field, allowed them to settle themselves in the city.

  • He solemnly promised, that if they would give him a large sum of money, they should enjoy all their former privileges: he allowed them to possess lands, build synagogues, and even choose a High Priest.

  • After a time, however, he allowed them to return to the practice of their own rites and ceremonies.

  • The better to ensure the same end, he allowed them to choose five-and-twenty members from their own body, as conservators of the public liberties; and no bounds were set to the authority of these men either in extent or duration.

  • Now, he laughed at them; often he allowed them to believe he appreciated their reasoning, that he was going to act and rouse from his lethargy.

  • He allowed them to sing Brethren's Hymns; he allowed them to revive old Brethren's customs; he allowed them to hold independent meetings; and he even resolved to do his best to revive the old Church himself.

  • The wretched eunuch who had to keep watch over the five, allowed them to see an old jewel-merchant from Tyre.

  • He, however, allowed them to remain in their error, that he alone might possess a knowledge of the route to the newly-discovered countries.

  • So satisfied was Drake that these performances were friendly, that he allowed them freely to enter the fort.

  • As fast as I made the bricks I allowed them to lie for a day or two in the air till they hardened, and then commenced to pile them up in shape to be burned and perfected into bricks.

  • Theodore had made about a thousand prisoners when he had plundered Dalanta, and all of them, under strong escorts, were set to work for him; but when the road was finished half way, he allowed them to return to Dalanta.

  • I had no house down at Islamgee; Samuel could not think of allowing me to pitch a tent, so the poor fellows would have been very badly off if Captain Cameron had not very kindly allowed them to share his servants' quarters.

  • These men I kept--afterwards, when I saw the command was gone, these men, I allowed them to stay in because I would not send them out in the streets.

  • None went, but we allowed them to go if they could get the men.

  • They came up, and I allowed them to remain there until the ammunition was distributed and issued, so that they could see what it was.

  • So then he allowed them to come outside the wall, where he ambushed and destroyed them, and in this way captured the town, which was soon destitute of male defenders.

  • Captain Waring, believing that he could trust to the French captain and his officers, allowed them to remain on their parole, a circumstance which greatly aggravated the feelings of Captain Gregory.

  • Are you certain that the Frenchmen allowed them to remain there," asked Bill, opening the lid of one of them, and feeling about.

  • He allowed them, however, to take an affectionate farewell of the dame and Jeannette, the latter bursting into tears as she saw them dragged off by the soldiers.

  • If he allowed them to remain, some trick might be played, and they might make their escape.

  • That our fathers, out of gratitude to the negroes in the Revolutionary war, allowed them to vote; that we have done the same.

  • It would be a disgrace and a dishonor if we allowed them to die in poorhouses, to drop by life's highway and to see their children mourning over their poor bodies, glorious with scars, maimed into immortality.

  • Yes, we did, That we allowed them to vote.

  • Consequently, learned women have frequently given their works to the world anonymously, or allowed them to be attributed to their male relatives.

  • There was a great outcry raised when the first genuine university which admitted women, allowed them to pursue precisely the same studies as young men.

  • The captain, however, though knowing of the refusal, allowed them to embark.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    allowed himself; allowed myself; allowed them; chemical warfare; could hold; dear master; dinna like; dollars each; dress uniform; federal republic; for sale; get there; grande armee; keep together; previously stated; productive industry; secret agent; secular priest; send some; sixty yards; uncertain origin; wave length; weekly newspaper; white male