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Simple sentences
You've got some nerve.
You've got a nerve to say such a thing!
I haven't got the nerve to ask you for a loan.
You have got a lot of nerve.
He hasn't the nerve to tell the truth.
The sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in the human body.
You've got a lot of nerve bringing me here under false pretenses.
Tom wanted to kiss Mary, but he didn't have the nerve to try.
Did I touch a nerve?
His nerve failed him at the last moment.
You have a lot of nerve.
My husband damaged a nerve in his neck.
I had the nerve removed from my tooth.
I have to remove your nerve.
He had the nerve to say that.
Ken didn't have the nerve to try it again.
I think I touched a nerve.
You don't have the nerve.
I don't have the nerve to watch it.
Movie subtitles
Lost her nerve.
Those girls have some nerve.
What's the matter, Tony, losing your nerve?
Oh, he must've lost his nerve.
Rico didn't have the nerve, and he didn't have the brains.
Well, listen, you crummy, flatfooted copper I'll show you whether I lost my nerve.
Don't lose your nerve.
That poor thing with a flat chest that didn't have nerve enough. to talk up to you, washing your greasy overalls, cooking. and slaving in some lousy mining shack?
There's nothing wrong with your nerve.
He had the nerve to stand there and chuck bombs.
You've got a nerve.
Well, you've got your nerve.
Maurice Pauquet! Dr. Pauquet, the nerve specialist?
I didn't know I had a nerve in my body until tonight.
Seriously? You've got a lot of nerve after all that time you spent trying to kill us!
I guess that really hit a nerve.
Rico knows you lose your nerve.
I can use a guy with your nerve.
You're the first guy that ever had the nerve to raspberry the Tiger.
I know I got a lot of nerve butting in, but I couldn't help it.
And what a cast-iron nerve you got!
I like your nerve, you.
Say, you got a nerve busting into my flat like this.
What's the matter? Ain't you got no nerve?
I never saw such nerve.
She's got a nerve.
You've got your nerve!
They have the nerve to say such a thing?
But now I've lost my nerve about giving it to him.
His nerve against my bankroll.
Well, what a nerve!
The nerve!
That is what that Crawford woman meant, and she had the nerve to tell me what she was going to do.
I know you've had a rough evening, and I don't know what it's all about either, but don't lose your nerve, honey.
News and current affairs
It shows how vulnerable a modern city can be when its leaders lose their nerve.
After all, Egypt is the heart, brain, and nerve center of the Arab world.
Yet, the 15 member states may compensate for their collective failure of nerve by opening up easier options for flexible or multi-speed integration.
Many nerve, respiratory and muscle diseases might also be caused by prions.
So far, we are no closer than we were after the attack to answering to this question, because we cannot even find the nerve to ask it.
How do they have the nerve?
There have been stunning advances in getting these cells to change their destiny - transforming blood cells into nerve cells, for example.
But Estonia kept its nerve.
India's achievement is all the more striking given that the Pakistani terrorist attacks on Mumbai - India's financial nerve center and commercial capital - in late November 2008 came in the midst of the crisis.
The West - mainly the Anglo-American part of it - had recovered some of its pride and nerve under US President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
It takes nerve and energy to live like that.
Despite nerve-wracking ups and downs, the last 50 years delivered an unprecedented global growth dividend.
The strangest thing about the Duma election was that Putin lost his nerve.
Tunisia's collapse came quickly, because its president lost his nerve and the army was weak and unwilling to stand by him. Egypt's establishment and its military are demonstrating far greater resolve.
Many former Soviet Republics with EU aspirations have become victims of this loss of nerve, as have the Western Balkan countries.
PRINCETON - In the increasingly nerve-wracking standoff between Greece and the European Union, the Greek authorities seem to be claiming a democratic mandate that extends beyond their country's borders.
And, clearly, that change in tactics has hit a raw nerve with Israelis and frustrated the US.
In 2008, Mexico's government decided to attack the drug cartels' operational nerve centers.
Convinced Europeans will need to marshal all their strength - and muster all their nerve - in the times ahead.
Tunisia's collapse came quickly, because its president lost his nerve and the army was weak and unwilling to stand by him.
The terrorists attacked India's financial nerve-center and commercial capital, a city emblematic of the country's energetic thrust into the twenty-first century.
Leaders themselves need the nerve to take often precarious parliamentary majorities through the troughs of popularity.
In Europe, mad cow disease shocked many people, not only because it shattered beef's image as a safe and healthy food, but also because they learned that the disease was caused by feeding cattle the brains and nerve tissue of sheep.
A hen's beak is full of nerve tissue - it is, after all, her principal means of relating to her environment - but no anesthetic or analgesic is used to relieve the pain.