31.   Maybe the danger posed to the Lucy image would have made her lose her nerve.

32.   Mid-August is no time to lose your nerve, and the thick of the National League West title race is not the place.

33.   None of them were charged with any crime but the sheriff here said publicly that he suspected teen-agers had helped plan the shooting and lost their nerve.

34.   Observers suggested that jurors lost their nerve, now that a death sentence was no longer an illusion.

35.   Or perhaps he came then to shoot but lost his nerve.

36.   Payne never seemed to lose his nerve.

37.   Quebec, admitting as much, pledged last year to lift the color bar against margarine, but lost its nerve in the face of furious protests from farmers.

38.   She added that, after disavowing her first guilty plea and then being forced to return to court to decide yet again, she had lost her nerve.

39.   She lost her nerve.

40.   That Fed quickly lost its nerve.