Example sentences of "because [pron] be afraid of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I 'm afraid of being the victim I 'll bubble my way up to being either the rescuer or the persecutor . |
| 2 | Somehow the protestant part of me could not find it right to speak of her place in God 's order of salvation because I was afraid of her obscuring the central place of Jesus Christ in his Church . |
| 3 | That was because I was afraid of being like them . ’ |
| 4 | Yes , but I was quite happy to feel like that , precisely because I was afraid of being influenced by my roots . |
| 5 | I had no curtains , no carpets , because I was afraid of fire . |
| 6 | Is it because you believe it wrong to do so , or because you are afraid of being caught and of the consequences if you are ? |
| 7 | It becomes like a drive because you 're afraid of not making it , so , yeah , I drank . |
| 8 | If you think it 's evil , it 's just because you 're afraid of it . |
| 9 | Because it 's silly to stay locked up in a house just because you 're afraid of someone . " |
| 10 | For for come back cause your pram is you do n't want to come back by train because you 're afraid of the steps . |
| 11 | Or did you try to write something , and stop because you were afraid of the teachers ? |
| 12 | But still , for week after week , she never dared see if she was right , because she was afraid of what she might find within . |
| 13 | Diane locked herself in her bedroom and would n't come down for a day because she was afraid of her father 's anger . |
| 14 | She decided against it in the end , not because she was afraid of any brutish remarks he might — not might , would , she corrected — make when he saw her , but because , from where she viewed it , this was going to be a tough enough weekend without her inviting hassle before it began . |
| 15 | Much of the time we are reacting with unwanted stress because we are afraid of doing damage to our own self-concept . |
| 16 | For example , as parents we may react with undue stress to a teenager who flouts our authority , because we are afraid of losing our self-esteem which is dependent on being able to control our family . |
| 17 | They are the two men who are feared here , they survive in their authority because we are afraid of them . ’ |
| 18 | There are men who lead lives of constant distress for fear of losing their hair , and women who hug terror to themselves because they 're afraid of losing their youth . |
| 19 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |
| 20 | Some , though knowing the terms of the Act of Settlement , or of the similar statute now in force , steer clear of the problem because they are afraid of it . |
| 21 | She believes it is the ‘ fundamentally weedy ’ men who like to see women cry , and it is assertive women they attack because they are afraid of them . |
| 22 | It was because they are afraid of the public learning the truth about Labour 's taxation policies . |
| 23 | Lots of girls married in haste and repented at leisure then because they were afraid of being left on the shelf . |
| 24 | To express the awkwardness of the Spartan position Thucydides uses awkward language ( i.88 ) : the Spartans voted , he says , that the ‘ libations ’ had been broken and took a decision for war not so much because they were persuaded by the arguments of their allies as because they were afraid of the growth of Athenian power . |
| 25 | They always left because they were afraid of my stepfather , and we had to do all the work in the house . |
| 26 | Terrorising and plunder , all by Mamelukes , and all countenanced by the Sultan because he 's afraid of ‘ em . |
| 27 | " Do n't know whether he 's showing us the gun because he 's afraid of us , or so that we 'll be afraid of him . " |
| 28 | It tells of the last penguin to leave the North Pole , left behind because he is afraid of swimming . |
| 29 | He says it not because , like the right hon. Lady , he challenges his party , but because he is afraid of his party — and one could never accuse the right hon. Lady of that . |
| 30 | May I help you by suggesting that if you could persuade the Prime Minister to fix the election date now there would be no need for this pre-election period — if the Prime Minister would stop shilly-shallying because he is afraid of going to the country . |