take a lot of nerve

"Hey, it takes a lot of nerve to have nothing at your age, don't you understand that?"

It took a lot of nerve to come that close to the zombies.

'It takes a lot of nerve to kick off the first time.

"It took a lot of nerve to tell me my mechanics were awful."

It takes a lot of nerve to make a stupid statement like that."

It takes a lot of nerve to celebrate one that banks in from the side."

Choosing to start a restaurant in Bray took a lot of nerve.

"Takes a lot of nerve for a lowly detective to tell a deputy chief how to dress."

AD Dangerous, and it takes a lot of nerve, ambition.

It takes a lot of nerve to be in the commodities trading, and I'd just found out I was pregnant.

"It took a lot of nerve and a lot of courage."

"It takes a lot of nerve to burn the country's constitution-was The boy turned, a smile on his handsome face.

"And that takes a lot of nerve.

Even if he was sure he was dying, it must have taken a lot of nerve for him to pull a stunt like that.

-it took a lot of nerve to sue a man as powerful as Hawkinfield.

"It takes a lot of nerve to spy for the Ironheads and the Settlers," Justen said.

It took a lot of nerve in their particular racket, and Brend apparently had full control of himself, while Trobin did not.

One - now this takes a lot of nerve - managed to get in my bird feeder three days in a row, knocking it to the ground.

it takes a lot of nerve to say films were "better back then" and to have a resume that includes some of modern cinema's worst offenders.

"It takes a lot of nerve to say, 'I picked a good school, I have a bright kid and I'm going to let the chips fall where they may.'

Like -It takes a lot of nerve to become a writer when your name's Shakespeare and In the sort of job I do, courage and truth are essential.

With the tourist business increasing, we think we should act now and get in on the ground floor, but it'll take a lot of nerve to quit my good job with the state."

"It takes a lot of nerve," Mr. McCollum said, "to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing almost nothing to enforce the ones that already exist."

When a reporter told Mr. Cahill that what he had just done took a lot of nerve, the future governor looked surprised and said, "That just happens to be the way I feel."

It also takes a lot of nerve for any bike rider to share the road with a 10-foot-high sport utility vehicle whose driver may or may not be able to see you when he's checking his voice mail.