Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] alone " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 2 | Police said social services officers are to investigate why the children had been left alone in the house . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So many nights when she had been left alone . |
| 5 | Only dimly , when the jar began to return to him more rapidly , did he realize he had been left alone with the mute pholy , and by then the women had begun striking their gongs and drums in a faster rhythm . |
| 6 | ‘ I heard on Wednesday from a neighbour that she had been left alone by her mother who had gone to Spain . |
| 7 | Gemma had been left alone at home in Hammersmith , west London . |
| 8 | But the court heard that after the defendant had been left alone on the ward with Katie for about ten minutes , she had turned blue and stopped breathing . |
| 9 | The girl , who can not be named for legal reasons , had been left alone when a friend went home . |