Example sentences of "[vb past] [being] alone " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , when all the others went away I hated being alone ; and I watched the road all day and most of the night hoping that a car , anybody , would come over the hill from either direction . |
| 2 | After his liaison ended and he was alone again , he wrote simply and forlornly , ‘ I hated being alone so much that I preferred being with a bad whore to being alone . ’ |
| 3 | He hated being alone , he told Joe , perhaps slightly envious of his relationship with Halliwell . |
| 4 | She wanted to ask him if he liked being alone with her , as he was now , on the quiet seashore on a nice day , but naturally she did not . |
| 5 | And — and I liked being alone . ’ |
| 6 | Usually she liked being alone in the house , but this evening was different and not just becuse Gran was ill upstairs . |
| 7 | The question really was , did being alone with me on a boat seem like a good idea or not ? " |
| 8 | Though she had never admitted it to anyone , she disliked being alone in the office since Arabella had fallen to her death from the fire escape : and the feeling was always worse in the evening . |