Object

• viewer: To explain any more would be a crime - the film relies on the fear of the unknown to unnerve the viewer.

• audience: What makes it worth while is what it does with those stock elements and that is to unnerve the audience.

• team: The prospect of qualification for the Champions League inspires and unnerves teams in equal measure.

Modifying Another Word

• slightly: Was slightly unnerved later to find them all collected round the pooter reading back issues of the blog!

• quite: His eyes were so glassy and quite unnerved me.

• really: Seeing him curled up in a fetus position really unnerved me.

• rather: This was rather unnerving for everyone as we had not seen so many non-Chinese faces for weeks.

• so: What was so unnerving was that they all watched in total silence.

• very: June 14 2003 © John Salter Something very unnerving happened in the canteen during the day... .

Preposition: in

• stance: There is, admittedly, something both admirably and unnerving in the stance taken by both Blair and Kamm in relation to Iraq.