Example sentences of "afraid [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't be afraid to go to the police . |
| 2 | Nevertheless the official surveyors who came to map the Trepke boundaries remained too afraid to go into the fields of the estate . |
| 3 | I was afraid to go into the house after what had happened in the village , so I hid in the hut . |
| 4 | Surely it 's true that everyone who changes his or her life because of crime — from those afraid to go out at night to those afraid to go into the parks they pay for — surely these people have been denied a basic civil right . |
| 5 | Old Cowslip was n't afraid to come into the middle of us , was he ? " |
| 6 | As epistemic breaks go , however , it seems to be a slow one : Foucault attributes its hesitancy to a fundamental reluctance to think difference rather than the reassuring form of the identical : it is , he comments , ‘ as if we were afraid to conceive of the Other in the time of our own thought ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ By now I was n't afraid to walk on the tee with anybody . |
| 8 | Sometimes ( he said ) he was almost afraid to look into the young couple 's faces . |
| 9 | After countless such visits he was afraid to look into the bowl in case something of himself had been lost in his body 's writhing struggles to empty itself . |
| 10 | I was afraid to sleep on the shore . |
| 11 | Maria , my wife , was afraid to ride up the hill in the carts . |
| 12 | The same I 'm afraid applies to the two competitors from our region , Sarah Niklin and Nina Holloway have n't made the cut and will take no further part in the tournament . |
| 13 | When criticising students ' work , both at the Royal College and elsewhere , he was never afraid to turn on the heat and could be harshly critical . |
| 14 | Is it is it because having taxed the disabled and taxed the divorce the government are aff afraid to face to the music and make an announcement that they are increasing tax on the sick . |
| 15 | MILLIONS of worried Britons are too afraid to travel through the Channel tunnel , it was revealed yesterday . |