Example sentences of "[be] afraid of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , they have been afraid of the Russians for so long that they have learned to live with it . |
| 2 | He could n't swim : he had always been afraid of water . |
| 3 | When they were children , she said , the villagers had been afraid of the forest folk . |
| 4 | Rudyard Kipling said of her : ‘ Being human , she must have been afraid of something , but one never found out what it was . ’ |
| 5 | There were occasions when Felicity was almost afraid of her , and even Breeze , who had never been afraid of anyone , felt that Gay was sometimes beyond her ken . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's what I 've been afraid of . ’ |
| 7 | I could n't swim , never have been able to , and I did n't go out on a boat because along with the rest of the family I have always been afraid of water . |
| 8 | I 've been afraid of hurting Eva , of hurting Margaret , and most of hurting myself . ’ |
| 9 | In those days , too , she had been afraid of Gareth Davis , but her fear had been tinged with an awareness of his overt masculinity . |
| 10 | ‘ We have been afraid of an attempt to snatch him back . |
| 11 | I had been afraid of her at Oxford where she had been a quick , intense , thundery girl who rarely bothered to talk to other women . |
| 12 | I 've never been afraid of an audience . |
| 13 | As a boy , Peter had been afraid of Hubert Molland . |
| 14 | Creggan had been afraid of almost everything when he first came — of the Men , of the strange sounds from the rest of the Zoo , of the people staring from the path that ran past the Cages . |
| 15 | Planes roared above , and had he not got used to their sound from his years in the Zoo he might have been afraid of them . |
| 16 | That was what I had been afraid of . |
| 17 | IN THE PAST , Sycorax had been afraid of her knowledge . |
| 18 | Some parents , who as children may have been afraid of school or bored by it , may only see education as relevant if their children are finding education unthreatening . |
| 19 | She would n't have been afraid of death . |
| 20 | They had had a farewell drink together , two women who had worked well together without ever abandoning their professional personae , Maria because she had been afraid of inadvertently giving away something that might alert Cavell 's suspicions where Luke was concerned . |
| 21 | At first , when I did , I thought it was purely a physical dependence I 'd been afraid of , because I was so slow to understand . |
| 22 | To tell him the truth — that she 'd been afraid of the depth of her own feelings — would be far too revealing . |
| 23 | I can sense her relief , she must have been afraid of an emotional scene . |
| 24 | And the thing , the biggest thing that we 've been afraid of is death and the things that lead to death like sickness and like infirmity like weakness . |
| 25 | On the plus side was the fact that the Foreign Office and the years spent in Cabinet were a good apprenticeship , while in addition I had never been afraid of taking decisions . |
| 26 | Wynne-Jones had been afraid of staying too long in the company of these changing spirits of summer . |
| 27 | Perhaps also she had been afraid of meeting Matthew . |
| 28 | This was exactly what she had been afraid of — flibbertigibbet though she was in most things , Candy could be positively terrier-like if she got her teeth into a mystery , refusing to let go until she 'd solved everything to her satisfaction . |
| 29 | This wedding is what he 's been afraid of . |
| 30 | You must remember that Americans are afraid of nobody . |