Sentence examples for it nearly does from inspiring English sources

2.16pm GMT 25th over: South Africa 112-2 (Amla 55, du Plessis 24) Some minor surgery is done to the ball with the umpire's scissors, and it nearly does the trick, as Amla goes right back on his stumps, pads together almost in a French cricket style, and gets an inside edge that both blocks the lbw shout and runs away through a vacant patch of grass behind square.

It nearly didn't.

It nearly did.

But it nearly didn't happen.

And it nearly didn't pass.

"It nearly did to Arlen Specter in the primary".

And it nearly did, according to people who were there.

To be honest, though, it nearly didn't happen.

It could have failed – as it nearly did over Cuba – and it was inconsistently applied.

They felt this could really happen, and it nearly did happen a couple of times".

Ronald Bates's lighting seemed unusually dark here, and in "Scotch Symphony" it nearly did Adam Luders in.