Example sentences of "[verb] [being] alone " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't like being alone with his Dad . |
| 2 | ‘ All right , I do n't like being alone in the house with the children , I admit that … ’ |
| 3 | Now , however , she had grown tired of Davis , and her excuses to avoid being alone with him became more frequent . |
| 4 | At first , when all the others went away I hated being alone ; and I watched the road all day and most of the night hoping that a car , anybody , would come over the hill from either direction . |
| 5 | After his liaison ended and he was alone again , he wrote simply and forlornly , ‘ I hated being alone so much that I preferred being with a bad whore to being alone . ’ |
| 6 | He hated being alone , he told Joe , perhaps slightly envious of his relationship with Halliwell . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you said you did n't mind being alone . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Now that you know he 's out — and around — will you mind being alone down there till Monday ? ’ |
| 9 | Nurses should help patients realise being alone is not always synonymous with being lonely . |
| 10 | It seems as if the time has come for you to bring this side of life to the fore , and even without your co-operation other people will persuade you that being independent does not mean being alone . |
| 11 | In accepting being alone much will obviously depend on the reason behind the situation and our ability to deal with the problems related to being a single person : the death of a partner or parents in retirement ; becoming separated or divorced ; adjusting to being an ‘ alien ’ pensioner . |
| 12 | We become lonely when we mind being alone , and there is only a thin borderline between the two . |
| 13 | She wanted to ask him if he liked being alone with her , as he was now , on the quiet seashore on a nice day , but naturally she did not . |
| 14 | And — and I liked being alone . ’ |
| 15 | Usually she liked being alone in the house , but this evening was different and not just becuse Gran was ill upstairs . |
| 16 | The person who is feeling stable , confident and optimistic is far less likely to mind being alone than someone who is still reeling from a major bereavement or break-up . |
| 17 | The question really was , did being alone with me on a boat seem like a good idea or not ? " |
| 18 | That you prefer being alone ? |
| 19 | Though she had never admitted it to anyone , she disliked being alone in the office since Arabella had fallen to her death from the fire escape : and the feeling was always worse in the evening . |