allow in English:

Go to sleep.

I hope to one day speak German as well as you speak English.

Why aren't you going? "Because I don't want to."

It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

Look at me when I talk to you!

Homeroom teachers should make every effort to keep in touch with their students.

Nobody ever comes to see us in this out-of-the-way village.

If I can get into university, I am hoping to learn to speak two foreign languages.

Fewer workers meant fewer people with money to buy goods.

Franklin Roosevelt was born to a rich and important New York family.

Two roundtrip tickets to Osaka, please.

The president was quoted as saying he would like to visit Japan soon.

You are welcome to the use of our house while we are away on vacation.

It began to rain heavily just as we got to the gate.

According to the weather forecast, the rainy season will set in next week.

Let me be.

Let us stop to think how much we depend upon atomic energy.

My love for you won't let me tell you everything. Some things are better left unsaid.

Why has Japan let pollution get so bad?

You probably think you know how to do this, but let me explain it once more.

I'm sorry, I don't let in people I don't know.

He persuaded his firm to let him go back to his old job.

Make a good translation of the sentence that you are translating. Don't let translations into other languages influence you.

I had no difficulty in persuading my father to let me study abroad.

I held onto the rope for as long as I could, but I finally had to let go.

It was bad enough that he usually came to work late, but coming in drunk was the last straw, and I'm going to have to let him go.

This is a secret just between you and me, so don't let it slip out.

Tom let me read the letter he had received from Mary.

Tom asked Mary many times to let him go home early, but she wouldn't let him.

On behalf of my classmates, let me say a few words of thanks to you.