Example sentences of "nearly [vb past] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both features resembled their names to a baffling degree but , despite this , Abu was moved to expound upon them with such fervent body language that we nearly plunged into the ravine and terminated our lives at the very lip of the sacred symbol of where we had begun it . |
| 2 | Reg Seekings , who came from No. 7 Commando , remembers an incident right at the beginning when they got fed up with erecting tents , that nearly erupted into a minor mutiny . |
| 3 | He left the Operations Room and was running up the Pit transport belt when Cheryl Russell swung in from a side corridor and very nearly cannoned into him . |
| 4 | He was close behind her as they rounded the L-bend of the restaurant — and he very nearly cannoned into her when she suddenly stopped dead . |
| 5 | She was muttering to herself about it crossly , and nearly cannoned into Travis , who had stopped in his tracks at the sounds issuing from behind him . |
| 6 | 'E 'd come running from the back garden and we nearly bumped into each other coming round the corner of the 'ouse . |
| 7 | I 'd just turned right off the B1 150 at Fairstead when I nearly crashed into the back of this unlit car skewed across the road . |
| 8 | Twice we nearly drove into a horse and cart and we passed three lorries . |
| 9 | ‘ I nearly stepped into space because our private car is n't there . ’ |
| 10 | A party of puffins had to take evasive action as they nearly flew into the side of the ship . |
| 11 | At the turn of the decade , however , there was a huge sulphurous swamp full of that sort of anaemic disco for people with beanbags for legs , and the New FADs nearly fell into it . |
| 12 | ‘ You nearly went into the back of that bus . ’ |
| 13 | Her fury with the diabolical man nearly went into orbit , though , when , once more pinning his dark-eyed look on her , he drawled , ‘ Just hanging on to him while he 's good for the rent , is that it ? ’ and , having made up his mind to that , seemed not to require an answer . |
| 14 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 15 | She 's got lots of curly brown hair with a little heart-shaped face in the middle , and her smile was so big that it nearly disappeared into the curls at each side . |
| 16 | She nearly slipped into a ditch and he pulled her out , giving her that ‘ I 'd like to fuck you ’ look . |
| 17 | As the dim outline of a beach was beginning to show , three huge heads broke the surface ahead of us and we nearly ran into three walrus . |
| 18 | Fernando stopped dead and his lovely , dark-haired companion nearly careered into the back of him . |