Example sentences of "n't the nerve " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Auntie Jean slammed Uncle Ted 's tea on the table at the end of each day — a meat pie and chips , or a nice bit of rump steak and tartar sauce ( he had n't the nerve yet to go vegetarian ) — she sat opposite him with a stiff drink and demanded facts about Eva and Dad . |
| 2 | I have n't the nerve , I Just encourage people to go on doing what they 're already doing anyway . |
| 3 | He knew he had n't the nerve to face his mother 's wrath . |
| 4 | The times I 've had to go in and get Durex for somebody else , because they have n't the nerve . |
| 5 | But he has n't the nerve for this kind of thing . |
| 6 | By the end of the ceremony she was so upset that she had n't the nerve to go to the house with the small party of mourners , and caught a train straight back to London . |
| 7 | She would have loved to know what the erring Frau Gesner had done , but he had suddenly looked so stern , so sad , that she had n't the nerve to ask . |