Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is here that psychoanalysis has had its most popular appeal , seeming to explain why some obsessionals continually need to wash their hands , or why some children are desperately afraid of horses or dogs , or why some people are afraid to go out of the house . |
| 32 | ‘ People on the estate are afraid to go out in the dark and even too afraid to open their doors . ’ |
| 33 | well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes |
| 34 | well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes |
| 35 | well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes |
| 36 | But I was afraid to go back to the village . |
| 37 | But just around a bend in the road an opposition supporter who was frightened away from the station , Mr Ram Raj Upadhyaya , said : ‘ We are all terrified and afraid to go anywhere near the polling station . |
| 38 | But I was n't prepared to sit patiently on the sidelines while this process took place . |
| 39 | ‘ We are not prepared to go ahead with the Lord Chancellor 's proposals about fixed fees . |
| 40 | Leece says he is prepared to go anywhere in the world to obtain a reliable resist . |
| 41 | ‘ I 'm not prepared to go all around the world with England any more as third or fourth choice . ’ |
| 42 | Scientists at the Met Office are prepared to go along with the US plan . |
| 43 | For visitors willing to penetrate deeper into the Südstadt , Galerie der Spiegel at Bonnerstrasse 328 will exhibit small sculptures , models and sketches by Bozetti , and still further south , Galerie Gmurzynska , at Goethestrasse 65 , will have a double exhibition of Malévich and Ellsworth Kelly . |
| 44 | They are scarcely free to shop around for the officer who would give them the easiest time . |
| 45 | Free to smell again the sweat on the brow of the bourse ; free to bask in the slipstream of wide-bodied jets ; free to sit in on the counsels of the alleged good and the alleged great . |
| 46 | Finding the car park empty , he was too embarrassed to go back to the pub and ask for help . |
| 47 | And of course Mr our salesman er he took it up to that big estate and er Mr had got too old to go up to the shooting on the horse you know . |
| 48 | The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 49 | but you , you ca n't make that public and you are still worried that it can go too far to the left and therefore you , you , you 've got a range of , of erm quite moderate proposals which come in which , i if they were implemented , would restrain and would maintain the su the support of the ninety percent , th that you are still only seeking to antagonize really those , those landlords who are not going to be prepared to come back within the system . |
| 50 | For light to work by at the period concerned , a miner had only a small coffee-pot shaped metal oil lamp with a wick protruding from the spout . |
| 51 | Despite Rayners Lane 's lowly position , they were not afraid to come forward in the opening fifteen minutes , but could find no way past a resolute Milton defence . |
| 52 | They were afraid to come too near the house , so he escaped . |
| 53 | Missionary Kate McBeth wrote : ‘ For a few years at first Joseph was afraid to come down upon the Nez Perce reserve — afraid of the surrounding whites and because of the many indictments against him — but this fear wore off . |
| 54 | Banks that lent for property at the top of the market would be wrong to bail out near the bottom |
| 55 | For many Arabs the invasion of Kuwait confirmed Saddam as the foremost pan-Arab nationalist leader and the first Arab ruler since Egypt 's Abdel Gamal Nasser who was fully prepared to stand up to the USA . |
| 56 | Well , I am quite willing to find out from the City Council Officers after this programme what the numbers are , if that 's the issue you want explored , and we 'll come back to you with the precise details . |
| 57 | They were not prepared to comment further on the matter . |
| 58 | She was free to wander all over the estate and Mitch kept with her , his collection of shots growing . |
| 59 | The ANC 's first warning that it was prepared to pull out of the CODESA talks came on June 21 , when the organization 's president , Nelson Mandela , declared that the negotiations process was " in tatters " . |
| 60 | Lateral Formed by an obstruction placed in the middle of the mouth , the air being free to escape at one or both sides , eg /I// Nasal Formed by completely closing the mouth at some point , the soft palate remaining lowered so that the air is free to pass out through the nose , eg /m/ . |