Hydrogen does not sit alone in nature and must therefore be separated from oxygen.

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You sit alone in a room, facing a camera.

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They sit alone, in shadow, belowdecks.

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As I write this final instalment, I sit here all alone at the BBC stand.

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When teetotaler Addie gingerly enters The Jersey Mecca Cocktail Bar, fearful of mingling with "scum" yet determined to meet with her handsome banker, (Todd Gearhart), she barely wants to look around, let alone sit down anywhere.

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In fact, looking across the 100 largest metros, only Warren- Troy- Farmington Hills, MI, and neighboring Detroit have sharp price growth WITHOUT strong job growth: they sit pretty much alone in the lower-right part of the scatterplot graph pasted below.

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The homes around Hayes' trailer sit empty, but as he waits out the flood, he is hardly alone.

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Mr. Poehm estimates that in Switzerland alone 2.1 billion Swiss Francs are lost paying people to sit through worthless PowerPoint presentations annually.

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In despair, he finds himself alone in his office, asking the empty chair where Picard used to sit what he would do in that situation.

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