I am not sure, of course, but I am afraid Colonel rutter is behind the purchase. |
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There is a French aviator here, but he has not got his machine, so I am afraid there is no hope for me. |
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It is very unworthy, I am afraid, but it is a canker that is eating my heart out. |
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Every precaution is taken, but still there will be many a slip between this pheasant cup and charlies lip, I am afraid. |
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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. |
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In those days they were called 'custodes,' chiefly I am afraid because they kept the rods. |
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Tolstoi, I am afraid, has missed all the poetry of Lear, all the deathless phrases. |
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Aunt, he has made me ask the Dodds to tea, and I am afraid you will not like them. |
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I am afraid she had no other female accomplishments than those by which the sempstress or embroideress earns her daily bread. |
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I am afraid it is impossible to explain this monster amid the exaggerative sects and the eccentric clubs of my country. |
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I am afraid that the old Falernian we drank at dinner, was too strong for your brain. |
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I am afraid I was not overwhelmed with thoughts of the fleetingness of life or the horror of death. |
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I am afraid I am not the right person to float a mine on the London market. |
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I am afraid Preston did not expect much of Flaxie, she was such a flyaway child. |
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It's well he's dead, for if he had lived, I am afraid I should have forgiven him. |
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I am afraid I shall have to be carried, forli, he said, with an attempt at a smile. |
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I am afraid you will be getting as impatient for the Christmas tree as Sigrid. |
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But I am afraid of his mending ill with ill, as the sophoclean saying goes. |
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I am afraid he will think but little of it after the spey, but he will be too polite to say so. |
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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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My audiences reacted on me until I am afraid I came to idealise unpardonably. |
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I am afraid to mention their eyes, lest, from the incredibility of the thing, you should not believe me. |
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But I am afraid, my dear fellow, that I must leave you to a tete-a-tete with Eleanor. |
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When I looked up I am afraid that there was most unknightly water in my eyes. |
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As for the canon, I am afraid I have offended him mortally by sticking up for you. |
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Mr. Mott is done for, I am afraid, but the rest of our friends are probably all right. |
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Of both his muscularity and good-nature I am afraid we often took advantage. |
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With two sons, however, who are about to enter the Guards, I am afraid we must be your vassals. |
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The average clergyman, I am afraid, is regarded in these days as something of a bore, a wet-blanket even at tea-parties. |
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With all that teaching and housekeeping, I am afraid you will overtax your strength. |
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I am afraid my pomes symphoniques are not quite on the after-dinner level, my dear. |
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And I am afraid it is very often the wives, Honora, who take the lead in prodigality. |
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The fingers of the rebbe were long, and the nails, I am afraid, were not very clean. |
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I am afraid Richards is not quite the man to have charge of things down there. |
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In the home of riles I am afraid you have seen but little self-control in any form. |
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I am afraid I can't get a rink built for you in a day, but I'll see what we can do. |
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I want to speak to Louise, although I am afraid I am shockingly de trop. |
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I am afraid that, medically speaking, the end of your troubles is not yet. |
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I am afraid that many other oldsters take needless risks probably every day of their lives. |
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I am afraid that I am about to suffer for the follies of my youth. |
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If it was not for the drawback of her illnessbut I am afraid we must expect to see her grown thin, and looking very poorly. |
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I am afraid I am but a shallow, surface kind of fellow, Jack, and that my headpiece is none of the best. |
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I am afraid that this prolific letter-writing will use up garibaldi. |
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It is entirely agreeable to me, and I am obliged to you for mentioning the surgeons, for I am afraid I should not have thought of them. |
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Oh, the Great Bear is in the forest, and I am afraid of him! |
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I am afraid you will find it difficult to make a living at hawking? |
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I burst into tears, I am afraid, my dear, you will think this a very sloppy letter in more ways than one, and I really felt very badly. |
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When you have seen more of this country, I am afraid you will think you have overrated Hartfield. |
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I am afraid you detect a faint infusion of spitefulness in that question. |
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And again, my dear Aurelia, I am afraid you are going to make a splurge. |
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Dr Earle ought to vaccinate me, but I am afraid to speak to him. |
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There is a large family place in Warwickshire, and a chateau, just now, I am afraid, in the hands of the Germans. |
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Max thought the same as Philip, and I am afraid Brenda agreed with them. |
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I am afraid that what was first done was unskillful, if not worse than useless. |
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I am afraid just now I am thinking more of the cap than of what it means. |
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I am afraid we may consider the refusal of the impost as an answer. |
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Mildmay, I am afraid, got little benefit by Mr. St. Johns prayer. |
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Then I am afraid that Mr. Clydesdale will have him arrested. |
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I am afraid I am too much of a musician not to be a romanticist. |
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I am afraid jacinth's attention that morning was rather distracted. |
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I am afraid that, deft as he was, he would have lost in a fair race. |
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And now I am afraid Campbell will be here before there is time to dress a steak, and we have no butcher at hand. |
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Do you think I am afraid of the dragon with a hundred heads! |
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There's house with a winder, but I am afraid of their being proud. |
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I am afraid I may frighten the company, frighten or enthrall them. |
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Really, gentlemen, I am afraid this memoria technica is a mistake. |
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I am afraid I took a rather unchivalrous delight in picturing your desire and resolve to go back eventually to your native jungle. |
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I am afraid he had none of the graces that can exalt one of these affairs. |
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I am afraid I shall be abrupt, but it is necessary to be explicit. |
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I am afraid that my sympathies were less with Sir William than better regulated sympathies would have been. |
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I am afraid I have ignorantly revived some painful associations. |
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If I hoped to serve my country there and sweep the Confederate cruisers from the Adriatic, I am afraid my prime intent was to add to her literature and to my own credit. |
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I am afraid I must admit it, if he presses me, for it's damagingly true. |
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I am afraid you find it quite impossible to keep her up at heel, or to mold her personal appearance into harmony with the eternal laws of symmetry and order. |
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You are one of her favourites, and, I am afraid, one of her victims also. |
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Now that you are no longer beside me I am afraid every moment of erring. |
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The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars for glittering on the rustic objects among which I had passed my life. |
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I am convinced that you have told me all that you know, and I am afraid that I shall have to look elsewhere to find the loose end of this little tangle. |
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Well, I may perhaps learn it, but I am afraid I shall never do it by rote. |
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