"nervous" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

nervous adjetivo

nervous + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 100
nervous system • nervous breakdown • nervous energy • nervous laugh • nervous glance • nervous disorder • nervous man • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 20
(8) wreck, finger, hand
Kolokacji: 3
(9) smile, grin
Kolokacji: 2
(13) anticipation, fever
Kolokacji: 2
(15) moment, time, rhythm
Kolokacji: 3
(16) tic, cough, twitch, symptom
Kolokacji: 4
(19) relief, puff
Kolokacji: 2
1. nervous relief = nerwowa ulga nervous relief
2. nervous puff = zdenerwowany podmuch nervous puff
  • Her breath frosted the air in small nervous puffs.
  • For a time he played with his pipe, lit it, giving short, nervous puffs; something of his grand manner returned.
  • He was smoking now in rapid, nervous puffs.
  • Gamble suddenly looked troubled and took a nervous puff on his cigar.
  • She's smoking a rollie in nervous little puffs, and staring doggedly out at the dance-floor.
  • I took a nervous puff on my cigarette.
  • Cardynge lit his cigarette and consumed it in quick, nervous puffs.
  • At that the great Russian paled and took three nervous puffs off his cigarette.
  • Just once the admiral lit a cigarette, but he flicked it through the window after a couple of nervous puffs.
  • She sat down on the edge of a chair, lighted a cigarette, and began to smoke in short, nervous puffs.
(20) Nellie
Kolokacji: 1
verbo + nervous
Kolokacji: 10
feel nervous • look nervous • grow nervous • sound nervous • become nervous • ...
adverbio + nervous
Kolokacji: 22
extremely nervous • increasingly nervous • slightly nervous • suddenly nervous • somewhat nervous • ...
nervous + preposición
Kolokacji: 14
nervous about • nervous in • nervous at • nervous of • nervous for • ...

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