1.   Her nerves were stretched almost to breaking point as she waited.

2.   Only slowly did he release the strap, as if he was reluctant to do so, and it stretched her nerves unbearably.

3.   And that is when the sport becomes an activity that stretches the nerves as much as it does the limbs.

4.   Diplomats and United Nations officials warned that Palestinian nerves were stretched to the limit.

5.   Inspired by Silly Putty, a neurosurgeon reports that he has developed a way of stretching nerves to bridge damaged spinal cords.

6.   Nerves are stretched to the maximum.

7.   Sacks also has been experiencing numbness in his left arm, although those nerves are stretched and not torn.

8.   That possibility, small or not, has added to the anxiety felt by many Israelis, whose nerves are already stretched to the limits of elasticity.

9.   This competition, more than any in golf, stretches nerves as taut as the top string on a harp.

10.   But a beating would stretch Conservative nerves about local elections in England and Wales next month and further undermine Major.