| But investors in London were nervy from the off after computer games retailer Game issued a profits warning and sent a chill through the sector. |
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| Audiard has done a masterful job of creating a brash, nervy film that is poignant without ever being pretentious. |
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| We were a bit nervy after our recent results, but John Martin was unbelievable. |
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| The nervous and nervy man couldn't believe that life was treating him so badly. |
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| So, come the denouement, their table was very bibulous and merry while everyone else was in a state of nervy misery. |
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| As they became ever more nervy when a clinching second failed to arrive, Celtic betrayed themselves as a team collectively running out of puff. |
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| With the threat of relegation hanging over both teams, the early exchanges were nervy, but evenly-matched. |
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| He is a nervy, jumpy sort of a chap, who follows people with his eyes as they move about a room. |
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| The United Nations chief is charming and charismatic, but his nervy doctrine for ending wars makes world leaders twitch. |
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| Blue-chip shares were left teetering at the 4000 mark yesterday as nervy investors continued to fret over the global economy. |
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| They only finished second to Switzerland, before beating Wales 1-0 on aggregate in a nervy play-off. |
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| David Toms produced a stunning back nine to edge out a nervy Sergio Garcia in a titanic tussle in the singles. |
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| They were nervy sorts, fidgety, who watched your hands as you used the mobile or hunted in your bag for something but would never catch your eye. |
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| Krugman caught my notice for being one guy with a really nervy suggestion on how Japan could get out of its deflationary spiral. |
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| Hampton had to survive a nervy six minutes of added time before being able to celebrate an Easter cup final appearance. |
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| We didn't play well, there's no doubt about that, so naturally, when you're not playing well, you don't want a nervy finish. |
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| Robinson was unusually nervy in the second half, as England chased the game, leaving space at the back. |
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| Blue-chip stocks fell sharply yesterday, as nervy investors caught sight of more gloomy economic data on the US horizon. |
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| But then we got a bit nervy and sat back and that's something that we're going to have to address again in training. |
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| I have gone from being very pressurised and tense and nervy to being more relaxed and far happier with how things are. |
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| This is the cutting edge and it is nervy but this is why we are all in the game. |
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| Threaded through this vivid story of fieldwork, paleoanthropological politics, and on-the-spot war reportage is Kalb's nervy struggle simply to stay in the game. |
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| In other coastal cities, neonate oil platforms did emerge, to gallop hectic and nervy through the streets, spreading panic. |
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| A little more rock oriented, and also more nervy than his previous album, it wavered somewhere between sophisticated pop and romantic balladry. |
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| Arno has delivered a dark album, kicking off with the sombre Black Dog Day and its nervy guitar solos. |
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| Maradona had a goal disallowed that could have settled things, and so with just a 1-0 lead, we had some very nervy moments near the end. |
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| Were you confident you'd win the grand prize coming down the stretch or were there some nervy moments? |
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| Michael Owen is sure to be a nervy spectator in the stands, as he continues his recovery from injury. |
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| With a madcap scramble in the German box, the Americans nearly opened the scoring after a nervy start. |
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| The first half was something of a stalemate after a lacklustre and nervy start. |
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| With the young Nadeshiko in the same boat as the English, an open but nervy encounter should be on the cards. |
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| Indicated for multiple cuts with single shaft or twin shaft machines of humid and nervy woods. |
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| Joiner limited the damage by charging down the conversion bid by Bai, who had earlier marked his nervy debut by completely miscuing a penalty from 30 metres out. |
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| In Winnipeg director Sean Garrity's nervy followup to his first film Inertia, an insomniac psychotherapist becomes as unbalanced as his trio of patients. |
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| Result, everyone is left feeling anxious, nervy and vaguely irritated. |
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| His eyes have a certain amount of little-boy-lost about them and his slightly nervy, jumpy presence also helps him appear a lot younger than his 43 years. |
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| Our fellows were nervy, edgy, and in the circumstances it may have been just as well that the Iranians strung eleven men behind the ball when Ireland had possession. |
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| It is going to be a tense, nervy, and, ultimately, unforgettable series. |
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| A nervy opening and some heat-fuelled laxidasical moments in the second-half aside, there was never any real danger of the City leaving bathed in sun Church Road red-faced. |
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| Southend were forced to defend in numbers as the closing minutes ticked away, and while they had to endure some nervy moments, they held on to gain a narrow win. |
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| Slight gains on Wall Street, and a smattering of bargain hunters, saw the index nudge ahead 9.2 points to 3490.0 by the close of another nervy day. |
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| It should have made for a tense and nervy finish but the goal provided the wake-up call as City switched back on the concentration button and defended resolutely thereafter. |
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| On Wasp Star, XTC come back to their nervy, new-wavish geek-boy rock, producing a startlingly fresh album for guys that have been doing this for over 20 years. |
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| In the end, victory went to Dinamo, but only after struggling Lokomotiv had mounted a series of defiant mini-comebacks that culminated in two late goals, making the final stages especially nervy. |
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| Even so, their shaky start to the final round of qualifying and the Ticos fine home form up to that point, made for a nervy and physical first half. |
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| Saltzman seems to have stepped straight out of one of Mordecai Richler's novels about blazingly nervy and alive Canadian-Jewish bluffers and gamblers. |
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| When not playing the piano or bass, Burgalat is experimenting with the vibraphone, guitar or harmonica, and along the way trying out the flute or tenor sax, improvising with nervy, fantastic rhythms. |
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| Nothing more than an overhead ventilation system that blows a stiff, cooling breeze through the galleries, the piece is a very nervy, even arrogant opener, but the refreshing air and elegant spaces are hard to resist. |
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| It was never pretty, but El Tri boss Javier Aguirre notched his first victory in his second stint in charge with a nervy 2-1 result over current 'hexagonal' bottom side Trinidad and Tobago at the Azteca. |
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| In a tense, nervy game dominated by the two sides' defences, a point apiece was certainly a just outcome as neither superpower found it possible to take a firm grip on proceedings. |
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| A nervy tank lining will be difficult to lay around tight bends or in corners because it tends to spring back. |
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| Entrusted to 85 vinegrowers, Côte de Brouilly displays a crimson robe, aromas of fresh grape and iris and is delicate and nervy as long as it is allowed to age for its elegance on the palate to develop. |
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| Dressed in casual black, with a pair of almost comically large black specs perched on his pale shaved head, he looks more like a nervy, etiolated physics student rather than a cult literary phenomenon. |
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| Shamrock Rovers FC, FK Rabotnicki and OFK Beograd will take on Juventus, Liverpool FC and Galatasaray A? in the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round after prevailing in nervy deciders on Thursday. |
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| Most listeners will expect a return to the nervy, dense, and struttingly compressed melodies of his first three recordings. |
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| Long demanding ascents, nervy paces, continuous restarts. When the weight of the rotating mass is the first parameter to keep as low as possible, the ideal wheel is a low-profile Campagnolo® one. |
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| Successful but slobby Olive has a news programme and nervy, fusspot Florence has just seen her husband walk out. |
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| First there's the nervy Helena who consults a fortune teller when she's abandoned by her husband, who takes up with a younger woman. |
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| Gitana X is heavier than her competitors but not to nervy which is an advantage in unstable conditions and medium air, but to her disadvantage in unsteady weather. |
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| From his nervy shuffling walk to his bashful enjoyment at a family get-together, Steele filled the stage with his Ebenezer, without ever resorting to hamminess. |
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| In an era of frenetic editing and propulsive soundtracks, the solemn quietude McKay establishes may be off-putting to some viewers and brilliantly nervy to others. |
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| Shot in a nervy, atmospheric style among the slummier bits of Detroit, writer-director Carnahan's movie is compelling but also uncompromisingly violent. |
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