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How to use i am afraid in a sentence

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If he is the person who drafted the documents, I am afraid he has a very poor understanding of legal matters.
Her grandfather was once a very loyal supporter of the Dark Sorcerers and I am afraid the apple never falls far from the tree.
Many of them, I am afraid, are simply adamant in their views and are not interested in the evidence.
People in the industry will spot holes in this legislation in all sorts of directions, and I am afraid that they have already spotted some.
Now I am afraid that my right ear, which is almost normal, may also develop problems.
I am afraid that the answer is one that people may not want to hear or even think about.
I am afraid that now that I am a bit better things are not going to change much.
I am afraid that a whole country, an entire people, will be destroyed for nothing.
His curious logic in explaining his reasons for this is beyond my wit I am afraid.
I am afraid that if I do speak out, against all that he has done, I will become a social leper.
Also, the public service used to be apolitical, but I am afraid we cannot say that today.
I am afraid you have reached the end of the line so far as the law courts are concerned.
I am afraid no one will be enticed onto public transport, unless it goes where people want it, actually turns up and runs at useful times.
You have brought to your position a loveliness and grace and intelligence that are unusual and, I am afraid, irreplaceable.
If anything that is written here offends you, I am afraid that I am not truly sorry and I cannot sincerely apologise for it.
It is just completely wrong, this, and it indicates and underlines I am afraid how much some of those places need reform themselves.
I am afraid I have to say that I find that explanation difficult to understand.
Still on the subject of conservation, I am afraid we will have to slap a preservation order on one of our national treasures.
I am afraid I do not follow the reasoning as wheat straw thatch has been a common roof covering for hundreds of years.
People keep telling me Greece is remarkably bright and I am afraid of overexposure.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I am not sure, of course, but I am afraid Colonel rutter is behind the purchase.
There is a French aviator here, but he has not got his machine, so I am afraid there is no hope for me.
It is very unworthy, I am afraid, but it is a canker that is eating my heart out.
Every precaution is taken, but still there will be many a slip between this pheasant cup and charlies lip, I am afraid.
Also I am afraid that you would not like the odours of fish below stairs, of daikon, and of other things all mixed up together.
In those days they were called 'custodes,' chiefly I am afraid because they kept the rods.
Tolstoi, I am afraid, has missed all the poetry of Lear, all the deathless phrases.
Aunt, he has made me ask the Dodds to tea, and I am afraid you will not like them.
I am afraid she had no other female accomplishments than those by which the sempstress or embroideress earns her daily bread.
I am afraid it is impossible to explain this monster amid the exaggerative sects and the eccentric clubs of my country.
I am afraid that the old Falernian we drank at dinner, was too strong for your brain.
I am afraid I was not overwhelmed with thoughts of the fleetingness of life or the horror of death.
I am afraid I am not the right person to float a mine on the London market.
I am afraid Preston did not expect much of Flaxie, she was such a flyaway child.
It's well he's dead, for if he had lived, I am afraid I should have forgiven him.
I am afraid I shall have to be carried, forli, he said, with an attempt at a smile.
I am afraid you will be getting as impatient for the Christmas tree as Sigrid.
But I am afraid of his mending ill with ill, as the sophoclean saying goes.
I am afraid he will think but little of it after the spey, but he will be too polite to say so.
Not very seriously, I am afraid, lamented Nathalie, judging from the bungle I made in trying to learn that square knot.
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