Example sentences of "[prep] alone " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is in shock and in pain and requires an immediate transfusion of love and an injection of strength in the form of your quiet sympathy and understanding , and practical help with all the arrangements she has to make , as well as assistance with the simple routines of daily living ; for even these may be too much for her to cope with alone while she is engaged in the important and necessary task of grieving . |
| 2 | The patient and carer might also need a home help to clean the house or flat , or the social worker may call in ‘ care assistants ’ , who are trained in very basic nursing skills , if the patient is too heavy for the carer to handle and move about alone . |
| 3 | ‘ For this same reason once she had caught up with her husband ( and been sent quickly home as being very undutiful and immoral travelling about alone and not remaining in her place at home against his return ) it would have been inconceivable for her to go to the police . |
| 4 | The young American girls who surprised cynical men-about-town in the Paris of Napoleon III by the freedom with which they were allowed by their parents to go about alone and in the company of young American men are as strong evidence about sexual morals as journalistic exposés of haunts of vice in mid-Victorian London : probably stronger . |
| 5 | I carried the ‘ job ’ through alone , |
| 6 | She sent Ruth off alone and followed her . |
| 7 | We should be three very gay companions , we could make excursions , the sort one never ventures upon alone . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher was far from alone in condemning any thought of a ‘ United States of Europe ’ in her Bruges speech . |
| 9 | There is no reason to expect that unemployment will recede of its own accord , and Britain is far from alone in these problems . |
| 10 | Macaulay far from alone |
| 11 | At the time , I was far from alone in wondering if he had not wandered further down that path than he knew , whether the playboy and gilded youth had not taken over from the redoubtable fighter . |
| 12 | There is a book to be written on the identity crisis apparent in nurses who have been left to the mercy of all the changes , and you will be far from alone if you can not tell a facilitator from a patient services coordinator ! |
| 13 | He is far from alone in having more than one mate . |
| 14 | She let him go in alone to break the news to Chris . |
| 15 | Strangers , I mean , that he wanted to talk to alone ? ’ |
| 16 | For there was no doubt about her success that night , and for the encore this time , she came on alone . |
| 17 | Of course we shall sometimes feel lonely but we were never meant , grim-faced and tight-lipped , to slog on alone . |
| 18 | The Du Teillay , against the advice of the prince 's officers , went on alone . |
| 19 | ‘ Secondly , timing is crucial and is something that you simply can not work on alone . |
| 20 | Males can afford to let their secondary female struggle on alone because a single bird can still rear some young . |
| 21 | LAM RESEARCH AND WESTECH SYSTEMS FORGE ON ALONE |
| 22 | Well , ladies , with Bill Gates getting married that leaves Sun 's Scott McNealy to soldier on alone as the industry 's most eligible bachelor . |
| 23 | SCO 's development partner DEC will have to soldier on alone , if it has not been doing just that for some time ( UX No 364 ) , if it intends to put OSF/1-for-ACE on its MIPS R4000 machines . |
| 24 | He took the horse from her and went on alone . |
| 25 | On the fourth occasion , she paused leaving Schmidt to walk on alone . |
| 26 | The other one could not play on alone or find somebody else to play , and if the games could not be played and ended , the riddle could not be answered . |
| 27 | When they reached the garage Leo left her to go and sort out the problem of the Land Rover , and Hilary continued on alone . |
| 28 | Saltburn Residents ' Association is pressing on alone to take part in Britain in Bloom . |
| 29 | Stephen walked on alone and out into the quiet of Kildare Street . |