Example sentences of "left alone " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noticed their appearance and also noticed that , left alone , they disappeared too . |
| 2 | He left alone before the train reached Carrick . |
| 3 | They left alone the old town with its souks , square , palaces and its impressive Koutoubia minaret . |
| 4 | Later , left alone , Mungo considered the advice . |
| 5 | On the words , ‘ The Prime Minister , Your Majesty , ’ the Queen invites the prime minister to sit down , and the two are , left alone . |
| 6 | Boy , 6 , saves his two sisters left alone in blazing house |
| 7 | ‘ One of the partners dies and it 's often very difficult for the one left alone with the big garden , particularly if they do n't drive . ’ |
| 8 | a widow is the first line of a paragraph left alone at the foot of a page and an orphan is the last line of a paragraph carried over to the top of a new page . |
| 9 | Journalist Diana Hutchinson , of the Daily Mail , pointed out that it might be a question of ‘ the young baby left alone while the parents went out to play in the summer sunshine ’ . |
| 10 | Two Jewish daughters left alone with babysitters after a lifetime of copious kisses is psychic pain enough — but when mother has the gall to start a sex life then it 's time to lie down on an analyst 's couch . |
| 11 | Sarah , left alone , had the dubious distinction of being the last of all the Titfords in Frome . |
| 12 | They separated people by clan … their own people — Hawiyes — they left alone . |
| 13 | He left alone as he had arrived . |
| 14 | Instead , she writes of those ordinary people who make the miracle , and often suffer in the process : the sarariman painfully climbing the corporate ladder ; the schoolchildren taught to prefer homework to sleep ; the housewives left alone with their drudgery . |
| 15 | But when he has been exposed as a liar and a traitor , left alone on stage , Shakespeare allows him to end the scene with a soliloquy in verse : . |
| 16 | By the time we reach the end of the scene we see that this is how it is , for the fulsome praisers of their father put aside their hypocrisy and , left alone with each other , and with us , reveal their true nature , moving down from inflated verse to coldly pragmatic prose : They are not only cold and censorious — ‘ unruly waywardness … infirm and choleric years … unconstant starts ’ — but end by planning some form of counteraction : ‘ We shall further think on it ’ — ‘ We must do something , and i ’ th' heat' ( 307f . ) . |
| 17 | Structurally , left alone on-stage after the main figures have left , plotting behind Lear 's back , they are exactly in the position of Iago , or the tribunes in Coriolanus . |
| 18 | That is , in effect , to argue that the market , left alone , has determined that the application of resources to the creation of wealth is better undertaken by the conventional form . |
| 19 | Hazel , left alone , tried to understand what was needed . |
| 20 | Scarlet , left alone in the house , looked at the breakfast table in horrified disgust : this feeling had first started some time before — she could n't remember when — as boredom . |
| 21 | ‘ I left alone , my mind was blank . |
| 22 | A dangerous development : parents left alone were apt to swap causes of dissatisfaction with the school . |
| 23 | She had been out and the mother left alone and ill , all morning . |
| 24 | It was not a moment for remembering a job lost and parents left alone . |
| 25 | I suppose you got impatient , left alone . |
| 26 | Rupert , left alone with Ianthe and Penelope , found himself heaving a sigh of relief , flopping down into a chair , and suggesting a cup of tea . |
| 27 | ‘ I left alone , my mind was blank . |
| 28 | Just England left alone with a permanent Conservative government . |
| 29 | The appeal followed a meeting to discuss the case of 11-year-old Gemma left alone in a flat in Hammersmith , west London . |