Example sentences of "alone [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may prefer to be left alone and hate having to depend on others who are less capable than themselves . |
| 2 | ( My italics ) The 1934 experience would consequently appear to represent a watershed in Nizan 's political development to the extent that the facile picture of an idealised Soviet society engaged in a harmonious process of social construction was unquestionably supplanted in Nizan 's mind by a picture of Soviet men and women struggling together , but ultimately alone and prey to thoughts of death and solitude , for the advancement of the great socialist endeavour . |
| 3 | For both locations the evidence is in the expected direction for OBS score at both time points ( though the difference is very small ) , and for Newham for percentage living alone and proportion having no closely involved informal carer . |
| 4 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 5 | Mrs Burger left them alone and Burger looked at Wycliffe with a small self-conscious smile . |
| 6 | Let him alone till Blackberry tells us . |
| 7 | It is our judgement that all of the authors considered in this book were victims of such disorder and that the accounts of their lives in subsequent chapters can stand alone as evidence of that . |
| 8 | Though Bede considered Oswald 's brother and successor , Oswiu , to have been the sixth of the overlords of the Anglo-Saxons ( HE 11 , 5 ) , it is clear that it was many years before Oswiu could securely establish himself as king even over all the northern Angles let alone as overlord of his southern neighbours and that this latter position was very short-lived . |