Sentence examples for I am rather afraid from inspiring English sources

Yes, I am rather afraid it is".

(She approaches me afterwards and says, "You're not going to put that in, are you?" I'm rather afraid I am, I say. "Oh. Well, we've had a note round about him. He's entitled to his opinion, but he's wrong, we're not sponsored by Waitrose". No? "No. We're sponsored by Green and Black's").

Which he's rather afraid he still does.

All of the respondents knew that poultry workers were among the "at-risk-groups" for being infected with avian influenza, and the majority (62%) expressed some degree of fear about AI. 44% described themselves as very afraid, while 18% said they were "rather afraid" (scale 1-5, M = 3.72, SD = 1.40).

I am afraid I am rather skeptical of this entire line of reasoning - above all, because the aptamer data are weak, with the possible exception of only two amino acids, and these amino acids (Arg and Ile) are not the simplest ones or those that are generally thought to be primordial.

"I am afraid I was rather grey at university, too.

This was a Prime Minister who, shortly before her election, had declared the British citizenry to be people to be "really rather afraid that this country might be swamped by people with a different culture".

Disraeli's last confirmed words before dying in the early morning of 19 April were "I had rather live but I am not afraid to die" though there were rumours that his final utterance was the Shema, the Jewish declaration of faith in a unitary god.

"I remember the blitz and I am bit afraid to say that I rather enjoyed it.

It is a contradiction to address "no spot!" I am afraid this is rather muddled; I used to know my Latin grammar but it has faded.

And this arbitrariness is not confined to English: while Anglophones speak of being afraid of spiders, Germans say, "I am afraid before spiders". A Spaniard, rather than dreaming of Jeannie, would dream with her.