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However, it could not fulfill the state law requiring a hospital transfer agreement, and the state later declined to renew the “variance,” or exception, that had been permitting the clinic to operate.

From Washington Times • Aug. 21, 2014

She saw that while she had been considering herself an unusually good mistress, she had been permitting her friends Bea and Oscarina to live in a sty.

From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair

Titania wondered, a little panic-stricken, whether she had been permitting herself to be satisfied with husks.

From The Haunted Bookshop by Morley, Christopher

With a shock he realized that even now he had been permitting himself to hope, futile as he recognized the hope to be.

From A Damsel in Distress by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)