I have barely kicked a ball since I retired.
The Champions League anthem had barely kicked in when television cameras picked out the Roma captain looking quite overcome.
Mysterious January signings Seydou Doumbia and Henri Saviet barely kicked a ball, Florian Thauvin was shipped off after half a season and Steven Taylor and Fabricio Coloccini were past their sell-by dates before it even started.
A compelling game had barely kicked off when the outstanding Eriksen slipped a sublime pass to Danny Rose, whose shot was parried to safety by a somewhat startled Vito Mannone.
The game had barely kicked off when Kolarov turned Yanga-Mbiwa - deputising at right back for the suspended Mathieu Debuchy - inside out and, suitably encouraged, Pellegrini's players launched a series of increasingly menacing attacks down that flank.
With that barely kicking in, sales to distributors in the U.S. have jumped from $3 million in 2000 to $5.3 million projected for this year.
A LITTLE BEFORE EIGHT ON A SATURDAY morning, the caffeine barely kicking in, I was barefoot, baggy-shorted and time-zone zonked from a trip back East when I sat down at my notebook computer, just dazed enough to think there might actually be some interesting electronic mail.
My rider had barely kick-started his boda (both the rider and the machine are referred to simply as "boda" by locals) before it ran out of fuel.
Orton finally landed an RKO on Batista, who barely kicked out before three.
At some of the more DIY minded venues in New York, the evening's early show will still be ongoing at 11 30PM, leaving you a prime half an hour to catch the latest buzzy act in blackened punk or bedroom pop or alt-country or whatever, before you spend the next four plus hours bouncing to a barely modulating kick drum.
With the same barely-there kicks and sputtering synths that he started utilizing decades ago and that so many lesser producers have attempted to harness since he succeeds in making you feel the naive wonderment of a child who's suddenly happened upon David Blaine on the street.
