Example sentences of "[am/are] afraid [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They too are afraid they too are momentary |
| 2 | Otherwise they are afraid we will kill one another . |
| 3 | Sarah Helen was buried there 76 years ago , but today the locals are afraid she is coming back to terrorise them . |
| 4 | Something has to break : you are afraid it is you |
| 5 | The Edinburgh Review ( Oct. 1807 ) was openly abusive : ‘ If the printing of such trash as this be not felt as an insult on the public taste , we are afraid it can not be insulted . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We are afraid you are taking upon yourself the creation of a tool that has an even greater potential for evil than for good . |
| 7 | Or as Dr Ed Wheat puts it in Love Life for Every Married Couple , ‘ If you are afraid to try it because you are afraid you will be hurt , consider this : the risk of pain is always the price of life . ’ |
| 8 | I am afraid we shall have to try and write some ourselves . ’ |
| 9 | I am afraid we shall want matter of Molly Leaper 's works to make out the bulk of the new volume . |
| 10 | ‘ I am afraid we shall not see your cousins when we disembark , Ruth , ’ Mrs Carson said . |
| 11 | One day , in desperation , Lewis said to Tolkien : ‘ Tollers , there is too little of what we really like in stories : I am afraid we shall have to write some ourselves . ’ |
| 12 | However , I am afraid we got nowhere with the salvage of crashed aircraft problem because of the legal problems of encroaching upon the law of the sea . |
| 13 | I am afraid we will be slaughtered and embarrassed . |
| 14 | I am afraid we could not agree over certain … artistic matters . |
| 15 | The hotel has facilities for small dogs at a charge of 90p per day , but I am afraid they are not allowed in the public rooms . |
| 16 | I am afraid they 're going to kill me , and you too . |
| 17 | ‘ I am afraid they are no longer appropriate , Mrs Copley . |
| 18 | ‘ I am afraid you have lost my wife 's vote , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I am afraid you have been misinformed . |
| 20 | ‘ I am afraid you will have to spend the night in the men 's guardroom . |
| 21 | ‘ Either I have your word on It or I am afraid you can no longer remain in my employ . |
| 22 | I am afraid you have missed the last serving of supper . ’ |
| 23 | A I am afraid you must be strong as regards starving your Oscars out . |
| 24 | ‘ I am afraid you will have to take account of the men of the Manhattan Project , ’ said Erlich through chattering teeth . |
| 25 | I am afraid you do not realise the very serious implications of this affair . |
| 26 | ‘ I am afraid you misunderstand me . |
| 27 | I am afraid you 're not used to the ways of the bazaar , Captain Owen . |
| 28 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 29 | I am afraid I believe a caution would have come a great deal more quickly . |
| 30 | I am afraid I am cynical enough to believe this is just another round of a giant game of poker , where the only thing that will matter in the end will be the size of the cheque . |