Example sentences of "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 | 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 . |
| 5 | At all events , she should not be left alone to be just herself . |
| 6 | Alida did not need her , Alida could surely manage , surely was not afraid to be left alone ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You just want to be left alone to die . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We want to be left alone . |
| 11 | Was there a cover-up wonders VChristy Campbell , or is the story just too good to be left alone ? |
| 12 | Fuel injection systems should be left alone unless you have the specialist equipment and knowledge |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I 'm the one who 'll be left alone on the stage . |
| 15 | In general any interference should be minimised and once training is complete staff should be left alone . |
| 16 | To be left alone on a chain is heartbreaking , literally . |
| 17 | ‘ That has to be left alone … ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He could not be left alone , as he was not safe . |
| 20 | The basic situation which I contemplate is a patient in hospital refusing all but nursing attendance , or the patient at home refusing all care , even if it means that he will be left alone . |
| 21 | My position is that the law is so constructed that in all probability , only the lucid , self-assertive patient who has a sympathetic , understanding doctor is able in most circumstances to have his way and be left alone , free from further interference , to die . |
| 22 | Dent was happy to be left alone . |
| 23 | A fundamental part of it has to be this recognition : animals have the right to be left alone . |
| 24 | ‘ I know , but I 'd rather be left alone down here . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Very irritable and wants to be left alone ; slightest motion causes pain , even turning the head ; dry lips and copious thirst for cold water . |
| 27 | They want to be left alone ; fear being touched because of the bodily soreness . |
| 28 | They may prefer to be left alone and hate having to depend on others who are less capable than themselves . |
| 29 | I simply wanted to be left alone . |
| 30 | 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 . |