Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] alone " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked to be left alone with the glass for a while . |
| 2 | At the end of the day most departments have to be left alone to implement policies . |
| 3 | It was the sordid exhaustion of poverty , of overwork , of perpetual near-incarceration , of eternal nagging demands , and to be left alone just to sit for perhaps only five minutes in unthinking apathy was her sole remaining desire . |
| 4 | Alida did not need her , Alida could surely manage , surely was not afraid to be left alone ? |
| 5 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 6 | You just want to be left alone to die . |
| 7 | However some elderly people , by contrast , have an acute wish to be left alone to die in their own surroundings with the minimum of attention . |
| 8 | We want to be left alone . |
| 9 | Was there a cover-up wonders VChristy Campbell , or is the story just too good to be left alone ? |
| 10 | But even there they were not to be left alone , and after the last campaign the conquest ended ignominiously as it had begun with the summary execution of Tupac Amaru , thirty-nine years after Atahualpa , his uncle . |
| 11 | To be left alone on a chain is heartbreaking , literally . |
| 12 | ‘ That has to be left alone … ’ |
| 13 | Dent was happy to be left alone . |
| 14 | A fundamental part of it has to be this recognition : animals have the right to be left alone . |
| 15 | Red , oedematous swelling ; burning and stinging pains ; face puffed and pitted ; swollen eyelids ; can not bear to be left alone ; very sensitive to touch or pressure ; sweat comes and goes . |
| 16 | Very irritable and wants to be left alone ; slightest motion causes pain , even turning the head ; dry lips and copious thirst for cold water . |
| 17 | They want to be left alone ; fear being touched because of the bodily soreness . |
| 18 | They may prefer to be left alone and hate having to depend on others who are less capable than themselves . |
| 19 | I simply wanted to be left alone . |
| 20 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 21 | All they need now is to be left alone . |
| 22 | If someone were to be left alone in one of these structures , not only would the physical senses be deprived , but the individual would be in a psychic atmosphere well suited to the encouragement of inspirational and prophetic experiences . |
| 23 | Susan , in this queer , run-down state , was really not fit to be left alone . |
| 24 | He was sweating , and the way he held on to me indicated that he did n't want to be left alone . |
| 25 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 26 | All she really wanted , if she could not be in his presence , was to be left alone so that she could recall and relive in her mind every moment of that morning 's encounter , and dream about what the future might hold for her . |
| 27 | Who said ‘ all I desire is to be left alone ’ ? |
| 28 | But she had so wanted to be left alone for a while . |
| 29 | For the first time in his life Brian did not want to be left alone with Celia . |
| 30 | While Hank was , in his grandparents ’ opinion , too small to be left alone , the two grandmothers had insisted that he accompany his mother , and he had enjoyed wandering round the Palichuk pig farm with his grandfather or playing in a corner of the lounge of his Grandmother Stych 's more fashionable home . |