• She rang the police because of a terrible row in the house which frightened her.

    BBC: Who was Arthur McElhill?

  • Vivian had never seen her father cry, and it frightened her a bit.

    NEWYORKER: Temporary

  • An ex-girlfriend testified before he was sentenced that he had shown her a gun and frightened her enough to call the police.

    NPR: Man Jailed As Slain DA Investigation Continues

  • When she walked from the bedroom to the bathroom, she said, it now took at least five minutes to catch her breath, and that frightened her.

    NEWYORKER: Letting Go

  • It frightened her, that notion, but it pleased her, too, because she wanted to proclaim the truth, she wanted to reveal who she really was: not the good and faithful wife she pretended to be but someone else, someone interrupted.

    NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer

  • But when the poll tax - a levy on individuals -- and her "no, no, no" response to Europe frightened her party into dumping her in 1990, they woke up the next morning and felt guilty about what they had done to their one-time heroine.

    CNN: Why Margaret Thatcher was both icon and outcast

  • She too would have had to thread her way gingerly among the pot holes no doubt frightened that her donkey might take fright with all the shouting and shoving.

    BBC: Seeing chaos at Christmas

  • Mrs Womwell, who uses crutches, said the incident also left her feeling frightened and vulnerable in her home.

    BBC: Woman meets man who burgled her Castle Bromwich home

  • Because a lot of the princess's life she was terribly lonely, she didn't know who she could trust, she was frightened about her own security - lots of aspects.

    BBC: Full text: Burrell interview

  • Her hair had dried in a dark mat that clung to her head, and it frightened him to see her blue eyes startled open.

    NEWYORKER: The Swan

  • One woman also explained she was too frightened to make her claims public while the presenter was alive.

    BBC: Jimmy Savile in 1974

  • Here was a woman with scruples less developed than her own, someone who had chosen to be not frightened but entertained by her new neighborhood, someone who soldiered on with her elective surgery even when her best friend got a diagnosis of cancer.

    NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

  • But Ms. Merkel, frightened by the uncertainty that her deal with Mr. Sarkozy had unleashed, agreed to a partial compromise.

    WSJ: As Ireland Flails, Europe Lurches Across the Rubicon

  • We see her change from frightened woman to competent, occasionally vengeful hero.

    FORBES: How Crystal Dynamics' 'Tomb Raider' Empowered Lara Croft

  • Suzie withdrew her complaint, as she was frightened of the repercussions and did not have confidence in the police and social services' ability to protect her from those who had abused her.

    BBC: Grooming victim

  • The court heard he repeated the words several times and she was "extremely frightened" that he would kill her.

    BBC: Rapist jailed for 1992 Stotfold churchgoer attack

  • But the woman sounded frightened in a way that set her apart from the other women, who were simply nervous during their interviews.

    NEWYORKER: Temporary

  • The actual Edie was a stick, not much more substantial than Twiggy (though sexier), with haunted, kohl-shadowed peepers and a hanging lower lip that made her look like a frightened animal.

    NEWYORKER: Double Lives

  • The youngest of seven hyperachieving children of a Vietnamese shrimper in Kemah, she had been born in exile on the South China Sea, her mother going into frightened labor shortly after their refugee boat was boarded by pirates.

    NPR: In 'Challenger Park,' Mom Is an Astronaut

  • He said no and apparently so frightened Anita that she fled in fear of her life.

    ECONOMIST: Anita Hoffman

  • "I think she was fearless but she knew what it was like to be frightened, " a toughness she got from her upbringing, Moorehead says.

    NPR: Martha Gellhorn: 'A Twentieth Century Life'

  • The girl in the latest case was so frightened that on the wedding night she locked her husband outside the bedroom and eventually escaped back to her parents, local media reports say.

    BBC: Anger online as Saudi in his 90s marries 15-year-old

  • Lisette was too frightened to react when the policewoman took hold of her arm at the elbow, not forcibly but firmly, as a female relation might, walking Lisette down the stairs, talking to her in a calm, kindly, matter-of-fact voice that signalled, You will be all right.

    NEWYORKER: I.D.

  • From here on, she is guarded by the justifiably frightened Ted (Jude Law), whom she shyly introduces to the delights of her game.

    NEWYORKER: Existenz

  • At the same time, Todenhofer was starting to wonder if there wasn't a downside to plucking a frightened and anxious girl from a shanty town on the edge of Baghdad and exposing her to life in the West in short bursts that were hard for her to make sense of.

    BBC: Marwa's story: 10 years since the bomb fell

  • The 50-year-old Nobel laureate's refusal to back down under any threat, and her singleminded insistence that SLORC enter into a dialogue with the NLD, has frightened the generals.

    CNN: MYANMAR

  • Ms Davies told the inquest she became frightened a month before she was due to deliver because the active baby that had been kicking and punching inside her had stopped moving.

    BBC: England

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