Sentence examples for nearly opened from inspiring English sources

She's right; I nearly opened my finger on it just putting my hand in the bag.

He nearly opened the scoring in the 38th minute, thudding a left-foot shot into a post.

Then less than a minute later, Maclaren nearly opened the scoring after Keogh drifted wide to receive the ball.

Keane nearly opened his account 28 minutes in, as he prodded towards goal after Dimitrios Konstantopoulos failed to clear a Paul Gallagher free-kick, but George Friend got himself between the ball and his goal.

Somehow, they wrapped the finale, although the lead missed his cue, the extras ran the wrong way, all the explosions were mistimed and the Iraqi army nearly opened fire on the set because they thought it was an invasion.

The visitors nearly opened the scoring after five minutes but Keanu Marsh-Brown's long range effort was saved by Rhys Evans.

7.15pm GMT 57 min: Marveaux nearly opens the scoring.

30 min: Another Ronaldinho-Ronaldo combination nearly opens up Germany again.

40 min: Mexes goes up the other end and very nearly opens the corning.

As I type that, Sionko very nearly opens the scoring from Plasil's cross.

Instead Hinault attacked twice in the Pyrenees, nearly opening an insurmountable lead before he collapsed and was overtaken in the second attempt.