adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
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This time last year we were very apprehensive about entering a year when so much doom and gloom was being talked about.
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Afterward the architects agreed that they had been very apprehensive about what it would look like.
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I was very apprehensive - there were very big seas when we started.
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The people doing the latter were extremely excited yet also very apprehensive .
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But the two ideas were similar enough for Darwin to feel very apprehensive when Wallace's paper arrived.
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Many of the Sutton pupils were very apprehensive about their first visit to Russells Hall.
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Anyway, she looked very apprehensive after that and asked what I wanted.
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Robin-Anne, who had been looking very apprehensive , seemed to go aboard Wavebreaker rather unwillingly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dr Gottlieb reassures apprehensive patients that the operation is a simple procedure.
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I must admit that before my baby was born I was very apprehensive about motherhood.
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No one need be apprehensive about their personal safety; everything is under control.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Afterward the architects agreed that they had been very apprehensive about what it would look like.
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Although a little apprehensive at first of steering such a large boat, we settled into it remarkably quickly.
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And she felt just as apprehensive as she always did here.
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Anne waved her off, watching, nervous and apprehensive , from the upstairs window.
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The Secret Service gets apprehensive when people even walk on this part of the colonnade.
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Twenty minutes in his company had left Merrill feeling stretched and apprehensive .
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What were the neighbors and zoning board apprehensive about?