Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [be] alone " in BNC.
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| 1 | But faced suddenly with being alone through bereavement or divorce , or gradually through the natural lessening of family ties and dependency , we may find ourselves feeling very differently , remembering with nostalgia the days when we were so busy , needed and surrounded by others . |
| 2 | But this Anne Mowbray would stop at nothing — she would chance all to be alone with him she loved best in the world ; on one throw of the dice … |
| 3 | She needed desperately to be alone for a little while — to think . |
| 4 | Your mind became numbed to everything about human beings except that they pressed close around you all the time , that they slept above or below you , that you could never turn your head without seeing some evidence of their closeness — their clothes or their books or their photographs — that they made it impossible for you ever to be alone . |
| 5 | They had both clearly come here to be alone . |
| 6 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 7 | And there 's nowhere to be alone , except my bedroom , and if I try to write there my fingers die with the cold . |
| 8 | Certainly the worst way to come to terms happily with being alone is to struggle constantly against it , always waiting for someone else to come along and take away our loneliness . |
| 9 | They made it a rule that she was never to be alone . |