Example sentences of "[adv] nearly do " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 2 | The plane he so nearly did n't catch crashes , and he is forced into befriending a vaguely familiar-looking German who turns out to be the brother of an old friend … |
| 3 | ‘ But I stayed composed and cool , I did n't want to get caught by anything stupid but still nearly did when he almost hit me with an uppercut — I felt the wind of that one . |
| 4 | And you and me nearly nearly did n't get on the train . |
| 5 | But I know that , last night , he damn well nearly did for me ! ’ |
| 6 | She had very nearly done a cordon bleu cookery course after she had left school , only deciding at the last minute to reinvest her time and money in the boutique instead . |
| 7 | But Mrs Miniver very nearly did n't get beyond two years old , when a fall into a nearby river almost proved fatal . |
| 8 | For Tip it was probably because he very nearly did not caddie for Arnold Palmer at all . |
| 9 | But it was a role he very nearly did n't get when the film 's backers decided he had become too difficult to handle . |
| 10 | But the second year with HRC very nearly did n't happen . |
| 11 | The whole of the introduction was a solemnly tongue-in-cheek exposition of this notion , though Greg had the impression that later the joke rather ran out of steam ( as the book very nearly did run out of authors to treat ) . |
| 12 | In fact , Shiona very nearly did n't make it in time . |
| 13 | It very nearly did n't happen . |
| 14 | It very nearly did at Verdun . |
| 15 | very nearly did n't it ? |