31.   I bit my nail, and looked at the box in my living room filled with useless wooden planks.

32.   In the interview, his nails were bitten to ragged edges.

33.   Instead he found himself biting his nails late into the night, wondering, perhaps, what low blow he had forgotten to deliver.

34.   Investors who bite their nails when a portfolio manager departs a favorite mutual fund may well be fretting needlessly.

35.   Jumping for joy and compulsively biting your nails?

36.   Parents must bite their nails until they start writing the tuition checks.

37.   She bit her nails to the quick.

38.   Share prices are plunging, gurus are opining, and rattled investors are biting their nails.

39.   She bit her nails.

40.   She looked up from a screen full of air fares to see me biting my nails nervously.