Example sentences of "[be] [verb] alone in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’ |
| 3 | How Gemma Gibson came to be left alone in a flat in Hammersmith , London seems likely to remain unclear until she comes back . |
| 4 | Then an attempted entry to a local authority hairdressing course went embarrassingly wrong ; it finished with Mrs Finni having to spell out her daughter 's handicap to students and a flustered teacher who eventually refused to accept responsibility for a girl who could never be left alone in the classroom . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not usual for a king to be left alone in the field at the end of a withdrawal . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , er , and then we ask him to let us be left alone in the quarry . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Is it not a fact ’ , asked one delegate , ‘ that our wives and mothers , if they are left alone in the house at night , are frightened to open their doors ? ’ |
| 8 | Police said social services officers are to investigate why the children had been left alone in the house . |
| 9 | He presumed the dog must have been left alone in the house . |
| 10 | Ever since that night when , with their father away inspecting a distant building site , they had been left alone in the house for the first time , and the ‘ broth ’ had decided to wreak mayhem . |
| 11 | Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station . |
| 12 | ‘ Did you ever worry about your daughter 's living alone in a city ? ’ |
| 13 | When we first meet them , Dorothy is living alone in the schoolhouse and Agnes is in lodgings along the main road which leads eventually to the Midlands . |
| 14 | This move had three objects : to complete the education of our two younger children , Fiona at Fettes ( where my old Highfield playmate Inky Chenevix-Trench was now headmaster ) and Alastair at the Edinburgh Academy ; to have Moira 's mother who was living alone in an Edinburgh flat and becoming increasingly tottery to live with us ; and to own property once again and so benefit from its ever-increasing rise in value . |
| 15 | For at the very time he was sitting alone in the house , in the early hours of the morning of the funeral day , reading again his father 's will , the most modern ship in the world , the SS Titanic , was going down stern first , with all its lights blazing into the icy waters of the North Atlantic . |
| 16 | She had hoped for the opportunity of a quiet word with Iris , of trying to smooth her ruffled feelings before the day 's work , but to her surprise and annoyance she found Rose Kettle at their table and Brigitte laying a third place , while Dora , stony-faced , was sitting alone in the farthest corner . |
| 17 | They went back — except for Pardy who came forward — or was it that the others went back and he was left alone in a forward position ? |
| 18 | After the film , each child was left alone in a room to play with a Bobo doll . |
| 19 | I was left alone in the middle of eight million people . |
| 20 | Nearly every weekday afternoon Matilda was left alone in the house . |
| 21 | She was left alone in the room . |
| 22 | The Gaijin who were with Sipotai had melted away from his side so that he was left alone in the middle of an escort of Merkuts . |
| 23 | Now , while this had been happening to the fisherman , his poor dumb wife was left alone in the lonely hut . |
| 24 | In April 1872 Mme Flaubert died ; Gustave was left alone in the big house , having meals at a large table ‘ tête-à-tête with myself ’ . |
| 25 | And I was frightened , I tell you , when I was left alone in the crypt , with a single candle to light my way , and discerned gradually , as my eyes grew accustomed to the dark , the subjects of the Prince 's experiments , standing upright , sentinels at each wall of the chamber , with glittering eyes and teeth . |
| 26 | One last kiss , then Kate was left alone in the small bedroom that she used when she came home . |
| 27 | On this depressing thought they both went upstairs , and after another fight , which she lost , Kate was left alone in the big bedroom . |
| 28 | Two days later , Allitt helped a doctor make up a drug he was being treated with and was left alone in the treatment room while the doctor saw another patient , said Mr Goldring . |
| 29 | Eachuinn Odhar was standing alone in the bows , one hand on the high dragonhead that was no more rigid than himself , staring forward after the grey veils of rain that swept past and away ahead . |
| 30 | He was standing alone in the middle of the bridge . |