The phrase "allowed us to think" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how a particular situation, experience, or piece of information has provided the opportunity for reflection or consideration.
Example: "The workshop was enlightening and allowed us to think critically about our approach to problem-solving."
Alternatives: "enabled us to reflect" or "gave us the opportunity to consider".
This relatively large number of baffles allowed us to think of working media other than air and water (to them most attention has been paid up to now) so that the Prandtl number may vary from 0.35 to 10.
Nov. 9, 1989, is the day the Berlin Wall came down, which was critically important because it allowed us to think of the world as a single space.
Playfully, Boyle allowed us to think that it couldn't actually be the Queen, with her back to us in that salmon-pink dress.
"I've decided to close the embassy of France in Yemen because, now, we've had elements that allowed us to think that these threats were extremely serious," Mr. Hollande told reporters on Saturday.
An unbidden apology rises to the lips, as Orwell's book duly climbs high in the Amazon rankings: it was far better and smarter than good times past allowed us to think.
We have believed obstinately in life on Mars, or at least on some planet just a little further on, feeling that it was only childish arrogance that allowed us to think ourselves unique.
They have decimated development funding and contingencies, which used to allow us to think sideways, to try things that might fail.
Computational thinking, a process that allows us to think of complex problems in a way that can be resolved by a computer, is central to the new curriculum.
The fact that we use specific technique and method does not allow us to think of staging as being dissociated from the actor training.
It makes meaning and coherence — it gives us a range of feelings, a way of thinking, of seeing, of stories which reach our soul and allow us to think the unthinkable, to winkle out our unconscious feelings.
