Sentence examples for nervous of it from inspiring English sources

But even if credit becomes more readily available, Brazilian firms are nervous of it.

The US basketball teams are staying away from the action (and the not quite visitor-ready athletes' village) in their own luxury cruise ship, the Silver Cloud, despite star player Jimmy Butler's apparent fear of water – and not for the reasons other Rio competitors are nervous of it.

"I was always slightly nervous of publishing it, since you had to know how to get it and I suspected it might disappear if anyone pointed it out.

Wenn man aber das Nervensystem in seinem wirklichen Verhalten im Körper studiren will, so ist es ausserordentlich wichtig, auch diejenige Masse zu kennen, welche zwischen den eigentlichen Nerventheilen vorhanden ist, welche sie zusammenhäund dem Ganzen mehr oder weniger seine Form gibt.'Hithertorto, gentlemen, in considering the nervous system, I have only spoken of the really nervous parts of it.

But "Two Jags", as the deputy prime minister has been nicknamed (he has a brace of Jaguar cars), is nervous of saying it just now.

Certainly, he seems to have been nervous of raising it over the past six weeks, perhaps fearing Mr Major's vehement attacks.Yet, judging by our poll, every one of Labour's proposals is popular (see table again).

After realising he had won, he kept the wining ticket under a carpet as he was so nervous of losing it.

"The risk of losing your job and being replaced is ever present and for that reason we're nervous of giving it unqualified support when we know that in fact a lot of these jobs will be ones people won't be happy in.

"People get nervous of having it go from 0 to 100 in a heartbeat.

The nervous splendor of it all gets under my skin.

The brave and the downright foolhardy – myself included – lean over to wave at and taunt their counterparts, sometimes in blissful ignorance of the terrifying thrill that is about to come, sometimes in nervous anticipation of it.