The nerves of the crew made less cheerful calculations for a simple reason.

The cool nerve of the message made Cranston smile.

Or did his jumpy nerves make him imagine that, wondered Dard.

Sheer nerve had made the killer's task a simple one.

Unless he found the nerve, the guts, to stand against Rivera's men and make it stick.

The man's apparently jangled nerves made the officers stop and search the bushes behind him.

Some nerves make direct connections with taste cells, which shed into saliva.

Then he told himself his nerves were making him inordinately suspicious.

Now his 'nerves' were too weak to make his advice effective.