Sentence examples for keep my nerve from inspiring English sources

"And all I had to do really was keep my nerve.

"Whether some part of me had some intimation that I might one day get out in front of 2,500 people at the Palace Theatre and say 'to be or not to be' and keep my nerve with such famous words, [American psychologist James Hillman] would propose that my young soul knew that and was terrified and was doing everything to avoid that fate".

My powers of deduction concerning the exam board's binary methods of selecting passages for translation; my powers of learning passages of text off by heart; my ability to match some single words in one language with some words in another; my ability to keep my nerve; my levels of cynicism.

"I knew it was in me and I've been training amazingly all year, but just needed to keep my nerve and it was great," said the 19-year-old.

It's a big match for me and I hope I can keep my nerves.

'I need seven or eight vodkas to keep my nerves in the proper state so that I can play my best,' Jocky explained.

I started smoking with the servers and getting tipsy at the bar to keep my nerves down.

I have been silent for more than two weeks and the doctor is now scoping my throat every 48 hours (to keep my nerves in check) and usher me to the finish line of my treatment.

I would have loved to have kept my nerve and played in the proper football team.

"Special for me was that I was mentally focused and kept my nerves calm," she said.

Mind you, I'm 35, and assuming I have 50 to 60 years left in me, I want to at least keep my auditory nerves intact.