The phrase "afraid do something" is not correct in English.
Did you mean "afraid to do something"? You can use the corrected phrase when expressing fear or reluctance to take a specific action.
Example: "She was afraid to do something that might jeopardize her career."
Alternatives: "scared to take action" or "worried about doing something".
"I didn't know exactly how to handle it, and I was afraid to do something that might jeopardize what the university procedure was," Paterno told The Washington Post.
"We're not afraid to do something different and something new to build on our track record of nutrition," said Walt Riker, a spokesman at McDonald's, which is based in Oak Brook, Ill.
Her comment caught me off guard, so much so that I left the event and began to think: Could I be afraid to do something I had urged countless other women to do?
In the earlier movies, Indy was often surly, but his scowl turned into a rakish smile — he dared you to think he was afraid to do something, and then, before you had quite registered the dare, he raced away and did it.
He denounced politicians who are "afraid to do something as simple as have a meaningful debate about our gun laws," singling out Gov. Jan Brewer, whom he called "feckless," and the Legislature, which "thought it appropriate to busy itself naming an official Arizona state gun just weeks after this tragedy".
"I am not afraid to do something if I think it is useful and fun," he added over a recent lunch of corn chowder and salad at the Blue Water Grill on Union Square, a few blocks from his office at New School's striking art-filled quarters on West 12th Street.
It was, explained producer George Reid, inspired partly by the experimental electronica of US auteur Flying Lotus and his Brainfeeder labelmates, but mostly by R&B of the early noughties, an era when producers Timbaland, the Neptunes and Rodney Jerkins "weren't afraid to do something a bit weird".
