Preposition: about

• future: The aim is to make the negotiator feel apprehensive about the future of a talk.

• thing: Anyhow, once I knew that I had won the auction I slowly began to feel apprehensive about the whole thing.

Preposition: at

• prospect: Many students feel apprehensive at the prospect of the close intellectual scrutiny which the tutorial involves.

• start: Debbie was a very good teacher, putting me at ease straight away when I was quite apprehensive at the start of the day.

• thought: Wednesday 19th October I was a bit apprehensive at the thought of attending the festival.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• feel: Q: Are you starting to feel a bit apprehensive?

• make: It is even making the market somewhat apprehensive of their anticipation.

Modifies a noun

• patient: Even the most apprehensive patients tolerate the procedure quite well.

• look: She was looking back at him with the same apprehensive look that he knew was on his own face.

Modifying Another Word

• understandably: So I was understandably apprehensive about going on a holiday where a second attempt at the seemingly impossible was likely to be unavoidable.

• slightly: She plunged down toward him, feeling for some reason slightly apprehensive.

• somewhat: I personally was somewhat apprehensive of my first jump.

• little: I admit to being a little apprehensive about what might appear.

• initially: I submitted an open application and was initially apprehensive when I was pooled to Newnham, an all girls ' College.

• naturally: Others are naturally apprehensive about navigating what is, for them, uncharted waters.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: I was feeling rather apprehensive about the possible crowds.

• become: Counting four other mountain bikers, I was becoming less apprehensive about the trip.

• look: The 3 German trainees on board who joined us for the dive start to look apprehensive.

• get: Apparently it's all to do with timing and getting apprehensive of the flashing.

• remain: Night Terrors sees the apes resting uneasily in a cave, some sixth sense alerting them to strange events outside and they remain apprehensive.