Example sentences of "be [verb] alone " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , the illness tends to afflict the very old , the group most likely — largely through widowhood — to be living alone . |
| 2 | The figures demonstrate something about the characteristics of people with dementia referred to psychogeriatricians : that they are on average around 80 years of age , mainly women , mainly widowed or single , quite likely to be living alone but not without the involvement of relatives or friends , and with fairly advanced dementia ( assuming that this is the implication of a score of nearly seven on a scale , running from one to ten , designed mainly to measure impairment of memory ) . |
| 3 | At all ages older women are more likely to be living alone than their male contemporaries ( Figure 2.10 ) . |
| 4 | Another possible implication is that into the early years of the next century fewer old people will lack kin support or would be living alone than is often assumed . |
| 5 | Also , as a result of their greater longevity , elderly women are more than twice as likely as men to be widowed and , as a consequence of this and the lower propensity of the current generation ( if not succeeding ones ) to have married in the first place , they are three times as likely to be living alone . |
| 6 | They are three times more likely than older men to be living alone and only half as likely to have a spouse . |
| 7 | Thirdly , although some data is collected in relation to gender , it would be helpful to see some interpretation of statements like these : Although ‘ women were more likely to be living alone than men , there were a number of very elderly men living on their own and some of them caused their carers great concern ’ . |
| 8 | He seems to be living alone in one of the little houses in St Basil 's Terrace . ’ |
| 9 | A frown creased Lucy 's smooth forehead as she said , ‘ Even with a bedroom downstairs , I doubt that she should be living alone in this large house . ’ |
| 10 | People are frequently not aware that horses need companions ; and to support this idea they may even point out a horse in a paddock that appears to be grazing alone and away from all the other horses . |
| 11 | I opened the can and poured the Coke , and Mrs Young , who happened to be sitting alone at the next table , turned round and said to Xanthe sweetly that she , Mrs Young , would pay for the Coke , and would n't Xanthe come and join her ? |
| 12 | Asked to be left alone with the glass for a while . |
| 13 | At the end of the day most departments have to be left alone to implement policies . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Then an attempted entry to a local authority hairdressing course went embarrassingly wrong ; it finished with Mrs Finni having to spell out her daughter 's handicap to students and a flustered teacher who eventually refused to accept responsibility for a girl who could never be left alone in the classroom . |
| 16 | At all events , she should not be left alone to be just herself . |
| 17 | Alida did not need her , Alida could surely manage , surely was not afraid to be left alone ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You just want to be left alone to die . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We want to be left alone . |
| 22 | Was there a cover-up wonders VChristy Campbell , or is the story just too good to be left alone ? |
| 23 | Fuel injection systems should be left alone unless you have the specialist equipment and knowledge |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 'm the one who 'll be left alone on the stage . |
| 26 | In general any interference should be minimised and once training is complete staff should be left alone . |
| 27 | To be left alone on a chain is heartbreaking , literally . |
| 28 | ‘ That has to be left alone … ’ |
| 29 | If the patient is safe sitting up , he should be left alone for privacy while he is passing urine or faeces , and he should have a bell to summon help , or perhaps a stick with which to knock on the wall or floor . |
| 30 | He could not be left alone , as he was not safe . |