Sentence examples for nervous down from inspiring English sources

The scale consists of five items on being nervous, down, peaceful, depressed and happy.

"Are people nervous down there?" Scarborough wanted to know.

The foreign secretary's remarks were condemned by Moscow as an attempt to whip up anti-Russian "hysteria" and were swiftly disowned by a nervous Downing Street.

Last week it emerged that a nervous Downing Street is killing off plans to guarantee renters three-year tenancies because the Treasury doesn't want to scare off investors, and in case the measure is defeated by a few rebel MPs.

"I was very nervous, stood down by the track," she said.

THE Norwegians have sent a nervous shudder down the spines of Scandinavia's social democrats, who have ruled their respective roosts, with only occasional and brief hiccups, for the past 70 years.

The trainer next door, Rowdy Werner, was going to borrow Lily to see if she calmed his nervous filly down, and if it worked, he was going to buy the filly her own goat.

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the show is that upper class activities and language are presented without apology or explanation: a joke about the nature of Harrow School is delivered without sub-titles or nervous slumming down and viewers are trusted to understand a line from Saunders Conniee in which the punch-word is "primogeniture".

"I was very nervous coming down and then I got stuck in traffic so it was panic stations and I ran the last three furlongs down the track to get here on time," he said.

When they're overanxious, it can be a way to calm the nervous system down; when they're bored, it helps pick them up, he explained.

In today's hook up culture, a quick (or not so quick) Facebook stalk of a love interest or an ex is everyone's guilty secret, and a nervous break down is just a click away.