Sentence examples for it took nerve from inspiring English sources
IT took nerve to put a restaurant in Lever House, one of Manhattan's Modernist jewels.
It took nerve for Payne to declaim such a big emotional finish, but I submitted wholeheartedly to its trumpet-blast of defiant non-irony, in which those deep old-man wrinkles around Schmidt's eyes, which he told Ndugu he hated so much, become the tracks of his tears.
It took nerve to pitch an inexperienced three-year-old maiden winner into the hurly-burly of an 18-runner handicap, and shrewdness to stump up a €9,500 supplementary fee to put First Cornerstone into his Group Two race, recognising that the forecast heavy ground would remove some significant opposition.
The band's album debut, Tin Machine (1989), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as "a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis"; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, "It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV ... in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book".
My guess is it took nerves and a lot of provocation for Mr. Kolchinsky to take the steps he did.
It takes nerve to rewrite "Romeo and Juliet".
It takes nerve, being an alley cat on the catwalk.
It takes nerve to come up with duck schnitzel.
It can be frightening to play like that; it takes nerve.
"It takes nerve, in this town, to hold the middle ground," Barnum said.
It takes nerve to turn down a settlement offer of $17.5 million.
