1.   Our article touched a raw nerve.

2.   The subject of hawkers had touched a raw nerve.

3.   Touched on a raw nerve, they can react accordingly.

4.   Without realizing, he had touched a raw nerve.

5.   Yet they perhaps unwittingly also touched upon the raw nerve of vital, popular fears.

6.   It appeared she had touched a raw nerve.

7.   Had she worried a raw nerve with that remark?

8.   Helen looked amused and Sophie laughed derisively, but, suddenly, she felt as though Joanna had touched on a raw nerve.

9.   And the cases have pinched more than a few raw nerves in these farming communities.