Example sentences of "to be alone " in BNC.
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| 1 | She decided to do nothing else by way of wooing Lucy until there was real time , time for them to be alone . |
| 2 | They had both clearly come here to be alone . |
| 3 | Of course he does n't really want to be alone . |
| 4 | I do not seem to be alone in this response . |
| 5 | ‘ Margaret Thatcher shows that she is from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy : ‘ I want to be alone . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I want to be alone . ’ |
| 7 | He had wanted to be alone while he wrote tomorrow 's vital speech to the Conservative conference . |
| 8 | He conjured before their minds a poetic word-picture of St Aidan coming from Iona in Scotland and settling there with his band of monks to pray and to spread Christianity among the heathen English ; and spoke of St Cuthbert to whom on that spot the people went to seek help and comfort and guidance , until he fled across the sands and sea to be alone with God on his island — so carry the lesson back , to a county black with people and with coal , carry back the need for quiet , and separation from whirl , and silence ; and so heaven will be nearer . |
| 9 | I 've had enough of it and I wanted to be alone . |
| 10 | After a pause they thought would never end they heard , ‘ I want to be alone , ’ clear as a single bell note , free of all self-assertiveness . |
| 11 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 12 | Of all the community services on offer , he had chosen the coastguards , which involved nights spent quietly in a hut on the cliff tops watching for shipping ; and the hardest part of all the trials he endured in the Navy was being marooned on a ship for months on end with no opportunity to be alone . |
| 13 | That 's why she is a bit nervous ; she would like to be alone with him , without Paul , and she does n't quite know how to arrange it . |
| 14 | That was the reason she wanted to be alone with the visitor . |
| 15 | Or you can dare to be alone with yourself . |
| 16 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 17 | ‘ Some people need to be alone sometimes , ’ I said . |
| 18 | He needed to be alone ; to start unravelling the knots . |
| 19 | Mungo longed to be alone with the book ; to see if , between its stained purple bindings , it held a key to any of the mysteries perplexing him . |
| 20 | I know what it is to be alone , to fear death , I know and she is unaware that I know , and yet I have to go to her , I have to leave the safety of my room . |
| 21 | She smiled to herself , at a vision of new friends and television programmes , of various people having tea on a lawn , sharing parcels and visitors and family photographs , being alone when they chose to be alone . |
| 22 | The desire to be alone with nature , which Karajan 's elder brother took to the point of eccentricity , was there in Karajan too ; an impulse , at once delighted and dispassionate , to slough off mundane things . |
| 23 | I wondered if he was waiting to be alone with her . |
| 24 | It 's best to be alone when the noises get this loud . |
| 25 | TO BE alone and without flying experience in an aircraft with a dead pilot is the stuff of nightmares . |
| 26 | Japan may still want to try exerting control but is likely to be alone . |
| 27 | He wanted to be alone down here so he could steal . |
| 28 | All she wanted was to be alone . |
| 29 | She was particularly unlucky to be alone , for she had first married at 18 , but after losing a child had been left a childless widow at 25 . |
| 30 | I 'd prefer to be alone while I 'm finding my way about . |