What he had at the start was a major case of nerves.

The woman was not just getting on her nerves now.

The last few days he had been getting on her nerves.

Her nerves had already been in a bad enough state.

The only thing I want you to watch is your nerves.

The old woman was beginning to get on my nerves.

All his nerves felt like they were coming back to life.

We get on each other's nerves once in a while.

Been in a low state of health and nerves for some time.

Why should I be the only one with bad nerves?

I need a change for my nerves after what has happened here.

I never knew a case to get on your nerves before.

The man's game was getting on my nerves a little bit.

But your nerves always seem to get the best of you.

The next few days I was a case of nerves.

She was in a very pretty state of nerves by then.

Nerves could stand just so much, and then no more.

She had never been in such a state of nerves.

I knew the man was in a very bad state of nerves.

"The kind of place a man goes to when the wife and kids get on his nerves."

No one thought he'd come down with a case of nerves but he did.

He looked as though he'd been living on his nerves for a long time.

It had been a game of nerves for the past few days.

Hold onto your nerves until then and clear the way for me.

My nerves were not strong enough to stand it any longer.

There is a nerviness and freedom in the feeling for materials.

All of that wide-eyed nerviness was on her face now.

He had lost the last vestige of his former nerviness.

With the nerviness of a stand-up comedian at a funeral, he shakes things up.

What distinguishes it is the nerviness of the stunt.

Everyone had their own way of coping, but Leon's nerviness was worrying.

He found in New York's "pace, nerviness and jumpiness" material for a play.

The gusto - the nerviness that makes his most contradictory combinations usually work - was missing completely from this show.

That nerviness was coming out in a kind of prancy skittishness.

Dodds and her peers said they were struck by the cheerful nerviness of the younger women.

It certainly explained her nerviness and tension, and in that moment I saw her in a different light.

Nerviness, absolutism and smiting enemies are seductive.

The new film will disappoint anyone who has delighted in the nerviness that has characterized the Blier work in the past.

Here, too, there is a blend of provocation and reverence, nerviness and discretion, that is distinct yet characteristic of 20th-century art.

(Gingrich set a new standard in nerviness by conducting an affair with a House staffer while leading the drive to impeach President Bill Clinton.)

Mr. Kissinger did not quite insert Mr. Ford (and therefore himself) into the second spot on the Reagan ticket, but the sheer nerviness of the attempt was breathtaking.

I thought that might get rid of some of the nerviness, and that a well-deserved equaliser was on, but the stop-start nature of the game continued, and the goal didn't come.

As much as I liked the bières de garde, I loved the taut nerviness of the saisons, which dance through the mouth with a lightness that rarely fails to refresh.

Nerviness and a compulsion to take chances eventually carry the hero to a position of power; he even changes his last name to Power to elude the feds on the track of his taxes.

Over all, and perhaps unsurprisingly, there seems to be an inverse ratio between the prominence of the museum and the nerviness of its titles' forays into wordplay, popular culture references or general touchy-feely appeal.

Mr. Bennett, swinging with easy assurance, mines every lyric for meaning, and when he really lets loose, as he does on almost every track, you can still hear the nerviness that impressed Sinatra half a century ago.

Derringer 156 Kristine Smith sat with the tense nerviness of a man who wanted with all his heart to punch out the canopy and go out over the shooters but had been ordered to go down with the demi instead.

The acoustics in the latest version are also not as bad as their reputation: for instance, the hall's renowned glare became far more mellow once its resident orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, shed the brash nerviness it had cultivated in the 1980's.

The graphic work offers plenty of evidence of the styles and compositions of Japanese prints, of the themes and suggestiveness of Symbolism, of the flatness and nerviness of Post-Impressionism and finally of the free touch of Impressionism.

In the play the young reporter is a black woman named Yvonne (played with spot-on nerviness by Erika Alexander), whose personal life, racial identity and professionalism all become entangled with her ambition when she learns - or claims she does - that a teen-age girl has committed a murder.

Three days later, I got up the nerve to talk to him.

What he had at the start was a major case of nerves.

She was the one who had the most nerve in the family.

The woman was not just getting on her nerves now.

Now he had the nerve to go back on his word.

He had never found the nerve to ask her out.

The last few days he had been getting on her nerves.

Her nerves had already been in a bad enough state.

The only thing I want you to watch is your nerves.

Or maybe he was just trying to work his nerve up.

Then the teacher had the nerve to make him stay behind.

He's a local boy who never found the nerve to leave.

However the old man seemed to have lost his nerve.

He seemed not to have a nerve in his body.

The old woman was beginning to get on my nerves.

But he had the nerve to call me on the phone.

Few of them found the nerve to come right out and say so.

Or maybe she'd just never had the nerve to ask one.

All his nerves felt like they were coming back to life.

I never have had the nerve to keep one since.

Some of those people in Washington really have their nerve.

We get on each other's nerves once in a while.

Been in a low state of health and nerves for some time.

He has a lot of nerve getting involved with some other woman.

Why should I be the only one with bad nerves?