Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] alone " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were early for band call and , except for a gap-toothed , long-haired hippie groping along in the opposite direction , seemed to be alone . |
| 2 | Sam answered , she seemed to be alone in the house … ’ |
| 3 | Laughing at this last jibe , she swept some papers into her arms and went over to the far side of the nurses ' station , where files were stored , leaving Belinda relieved to be alone . |
| 4 | Merrill went straight up to her room , relieved to be alone and quiet at last , and as she undressed for bed she thought that she heard the door to Luke 's room open and close again . |
| 5 | She loved to be alone , to be brave , to go out into the arms of her destiny fearlessly , like a knight into the lists . |
| 6 | ‘ The way you contrived to be alone with me , despite the supervision and monitoring . ’ |
| 7 | He needed to be alone ; to start unravelling the knots . |
| 8 | I needed to be alone . |
| 9 | He needed to be alone . |
| 10 | A young couple in the first blissful days of their union needed to be alone together . |
| 11 | I knew that he needed to be alone to think about all that he had heard . |
| 12 | She needed to be alone , and there was nowhere among all the tents and sideshows where she could hope to escape the milling crowd . |
| 13 | She needed to be alone to sort out the battery of questions , to think . |
| 14 | She needed to be alone for this . |
| 15 | She smiled to herself , at a vision of new friends and television programmes , of various people having tea on a lawn , sharing parcels and visitors and family photographs , being alone when they chose to be alone . |
| 16 | RIDING THE STORM : The Queen chose to be alone with her thoughts at Balmoral |
| 17 | was sitting comfortably on a low branch on a tall pine tree in the Wakefield 's back garden , she had her knees up round her chin and was leaning against the trunk , this was Elizabeth 's thinking seat , the place that she went to be alone , there was a lot to think about , tomorrow Mrs , Mr Davis her form teacher would announce the winner of the class essay contest . |
| 18 | We are not , I feel , meant to be alone in life or in death . |
| 19 | He had a feeling that she was deliberately avoiding him — that she feared to be alone with him . |
| 20 | I learned to be alone . |
| 21 | She also made it clear that she preferred to be alone . |
| 22 | She liked to be alone in a warm , lit box with the world streaming darkly by . |
| 23 | Mr Rochester 's mood had suddenly changed , and he clearly wished to be alone . |
| 24 | Shy and unhappy , she one day went to sleep in the spare room , hoping that he would come in to find her , but he credited her with his own temperament and thought only that she wished to be alone . |
| 25 | Mungo longed to be alone with the book ; to see if , between its stained purple bindings , it held a key to any of the mysteries perplexing him . |
| 26 | If she was honest , right at this moment she could think of nothing better than being able to collapse into bed , but it had to be alone . |
| 27 | I 've had enough of it and I wanted to be alone . |
| 28 | That was the reason she wanted to be alone with the visitor . |
| 29 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 30 | He wanted to be alone down here so he could steal . |