Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] nearly " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human beings have never touched me so nearly as now when ‘ Nature ’ was so close : I think , too , I never before struck such firm roots into human hearts ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ But when I see those stones here , and ponder — as I was doing when I so nearly precipitated myself upon you — ’ he laughed , gently , at his own folly and again rapiered a look to Miss D'Arcy who , in control now , returned to him the dreamy interest of the truly hooked — ‘ it was Egypt I thought on . |
| 3 | I once nearly read her diary and I thought no I 'd better not |
| 4 | I very nearly choked . |
| 5 | Having said that , one friend is staying over until Boxing Day , and I very nearly lied to her . |
| 6 | I very nearly took you then and there , standing up , in a cold dark cave … after that I needed a little time to sort through my feelings , sabiha tieghi … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I very nearly married a man called Flugtermans , ’ she said — 'a dentist . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ She was starin' at me so rudely , ’ Lou recounted one day , ‘ I very nearly said , ‘ Wait a minute , I 'll get a basin for your eyes ’ . ’ |
| 9 | I very nearly brought it o |
| 10 | Follow Thee more nearly ; |
| 11 | Meanwhile Jeannette makes the most of cuddling the baby she so nearly lost . |
| 12 | To see you more clearly , to love you more dearly , to follow you more nearly . |
| 13 | Damages for breach of contract should put you as nearly as possible in the position that you would have occupied had your contract been performed properly — but no better . |
| 14 | I saw you about nearly five weeks ago . |
| 15 | Then when you had grown enough and mother had carried you there nearly a year , God opened a door for you and brought you out into this world . |
| 16 | ‘ You very nearly got to that stage today . ’ |
| 17 | Terror gripped her so completely that she was incapable of opening it and let it fall to the floor where — she very nearly followed it in a faint . |
| 18 | With a tragic irony she very nearly succeeded . |
| 19 | When he touched her on her elbow to guide her inside she very nearly snatched her arm away , only controlling the impulse at the last minute . |
| 20 | And you and me nearly nearly did n't get on the train . |
| 21 | And so we very nearly had to write the unusual story of the inaugural air mail flight that flew without the air mail . |
| 22 | ‘ We very nearly had a marmalade tablecloth then ! ’ |
| 23 | The literary form that they most nearly resemble , or the situation in life that they come nearest to recreating , is that of a letter . |
| 24 | Ministerial statements have talked about raising council house rents to ‘ more realistic levels ’ or so that they more nearly approach rents in the private sector . |
| 25 | SECRETARY Kathryn Chappell , 31 , who disappeared without trace from her home nearly two weeks ago , was found murdered yesterday . |
| 26 | This they very nearly achieved . |
| 27 | In this , of the great poet-critics of the past the one he most nearly resembles is Dryden , whose criticism virtually always comes before us as the preface to a volume of original imaginative writing — including translations which , in this too like Pound , Dryden considers no less ‘ original ’ than poems he has made up for himself . |
| 28 | It so nearly ended in tragedy . |
| 29 | 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 … |
| 30 | Well she need needed it for erm her speech , and then when he came along , he just nearly automatically got one because everybody got one in really . |