Example sentences of "[prep] [be] alone " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had come early , knowing the agony of being alone and waiting … |
| 2 | They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay , and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes . |
| 3 | Just because very few hotels have that many single rooms it does n't mean you should pay an arm and a leg for the privilege of being alone . |
| 4 | At once , he turned and sprang up the rocky path even faster , suddenly excited by the idea of being alone . |
| 5 | She had found , since her return to the house , that she was horribly nervous of being alone in it at night . |
| 6 | Her dislike of being alone after dark had certainly diminished as the weeks went by , but she could not honestly say that she was completely carefree . |
| 7 | Susan was so frightened of being alone , that she would not go to sleep , in case we left her . |
| 8 | I 'm the only one of our family left now , and I 've had the feeling of being alone for so long … |
| 9 | Fear of being alone . |
| 10 | You are hampered by fear of the consequences of a new choice , the fear of the unknown , of being alone , of the world you have readily accepted in the past . |
| 11 | If the fear of being alone causes us to cling ever more insistently to others we are , at some point , likely to be left more on our own than we would otherwise be . |
| 12 | Of course , a number of people start their period of being alone in some distress . |
| 13 | fear of being alone |
| 14 | Like Mrs Secretan , Elizabeth had married off a daughter , like her she had lived in fear ( then unfounded ) of cancer , and had felt uncomfortably sure that she had offended someone ; like Elinor Pringle she had filled up time in odd places , during short periods of being alone ; like Meg , she knew the fascination of the Thames estuary ; with Patrick Barlow she shared the accidie of the writer , and a love for the same sort of painting . |
| 15 | As I became more withdrawn , so I became more secretive and more cunning in finding ways of being alone . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I can manage , ’ she replied positively , although she was apprehensive of being alone in the house . |
| 17 | Constance was appalled at the thought of being alone with her but rose helplessly as Gioella stretched out her hand . |
| 18 | More specifically , I have attempted to trace some of the interrelationships among several ‘ orientations ’ or ‘ themes ’ in Semai life — dependence and nurturance , danger , individualism , and autonomy — that interact in constituting , socially , psychologically , and culturally , a reality where individuals are , on the one hand , at risk of being alone in an unremittingly hostile world and , on the other , tightly enclosed in a network of kin and co-villagers upon whom each is dependent for his very survival . |
| 19 | The thought of being alone without Craig 's warm presence in the house made her want to weep . |
| 20 | But the ultimate truth , as the poem starkly concludes , is that one goes out to counter the overbalancing fear of being alone : |
| 21 | It just was n't a thing you could ignore , and being alone at it was to combine the worst elements of being alone at any other time , and multiply them by two hundred and fifty . |
| 22 | I–m staying with you , ’ the younger woman said , horrified at the thought of being alone in one of these darkened rooms . |
| 23 | That and the feeling of being alone . |
| 24 | I 'm frightened of being alone ! |
| 25 | But the Colonel and John-William were both Justices of the Peace , often serving on the same Bench together , and although she had so far shirked inviting them to dine — the prospect of being alone with the Colonel 's lady frankly terrifying her — she was delighted to see them here today , feeling that their presence lent great distinction . |
| 26 | But while a cruise across the Mediterranean with Clive Kemp had posed no problems at all , the very thought of being alone on a boat with Nathan Bryce for however long it took to sail two thousand miles brought her out in a cold sweat and turned her insides to jelly . |
| 27 | Only that perhaps he had manufactured some reason so that she would be able to overcome her own personal fears of being alone with him ; given her an excuse to accept his invitation to re-enter the apartment where he 'd previously abused her both physically and verbally . |
| 28 | She had laughed , lived a perfectly normal life , shouldering the responsibility of being alone to bring up her daughter , but , with a child 's uncanny insight , Jenna had known that her mother had never recovered . |
| 29 | She admitted that she had been thrilled at the idea of being alone with him , but all he was going to do was be stiffly silent . |
| 30 | It was the strain — deep down she knew — the strain of finding herself in this diabolical situation , the strain of being alone here , like this , with his contempt and superiority , struggling constantly against the physical awareness of him , the electricity that his presence produced . |