Example sentences of "[pron] sit alone " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window , I think how dismal it is , how hard , how heavy , to watch the rain and not know why it falls . |
| 2 | Somebody might laugh , but just for something to do I was picturing the McLaren girl and I sitting alone in the hotel cafe . |
| 3 | I sat alone in the YMCA , |
| 4 | The result was that very soon indeed afterwards my father came with a very sad but kind face in to the room where I sat alone and told me he was sure I should not do that sort of thing again . |
| 5 | Nolan took Fiona , Lewis got drunker , Gareth vanished , the sponsor retrieved his lady : Erica and I sat alone . |
| 6 | I sat alone in a compartment , coming to terms with the fact that I was free at last and if I wanted to put my feet up on the opposite seat or take off my tie , no one in uniform had the right to bustle in and call me Airwoman in that well-known disapproving voice . |
| 7 | I sat alone in the canteen at college , I stopped drinking in pubs and chatty male bus conductors and shop assistants were met with blank stares . |
| 8 | He had subjected himself to his own personal therapy , requiring himself to sit alone in a hospital room and speak of those happenings aloud . |
| 9 | Adult offenders who are convicted in the magistrates ' courts will normally be sentenced by a bench of lay ( meaning unpaid , and largely untrained ) magistrates , though in some of the larger conurbations lay benches are supplemented by full-time professional magistrates known as stipendiaries , who sit alone . |
| 10 | The door was opened for him by a secretary who sat alone in a corner . |
| 11 | As she sat alone in the smoky little room eating her dinner , in walked a handsome man , with curly black hair and brown eyes , wearing a black hat and corduroy suit . |
| 12 | Her daughter was taken away to Special Care , and she , like Nickie , hated seeing fathers come in looking pleased while she sat alone on her bed , waiting for her mother . |
| 13 | On one occasion she sat alone for six hours travelling up to Carlisle . |
| 14 | Cecilia turned somewhat fearfully back and saw that the man and the bear had gone to the far end of the coach where a woman not much younger than herself sat alone . |
| 15 | He got up and left her sitting alone . |
| 16 | ‘ Would you rather wait for the other ladies ? ’ he ventured , obviously torn between his duty and the thought of her sitting alone in such rowdy company for several minutes . |
| 17 | The following day Tweed announced his decision to Monica as they sat alone in his office . |
| 18 | One night , he recalls , he sat alone in the Commons library when David Owen passed by and returned a few moments later with David Marquand . |
| 19 | Back in the hotel 's dancehall-sized breakfast room , he sat alone amongst a couple of hundred empty tables . |
| 20 | He found it was at its worst in the late evenings when he sat alone in Fern Cottage . |
| 21 | He sat alone on a trestled wooden bench , wondering what changes he would find on his return to the East End . |