Sentence examples for nearly opening from inspiring English sources

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

Woking, who had won five in a row, had the better of the first half with Scott Rendell nearly opening the scoring.

One shin to the side of Lawler's head, in particular, wobbled the champion in the fourth round, nearly opening the door for MacDonald to finish the fight.

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.

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.