Sentences with phrase «nearly runs over»

A train nearly runs over a person on the track.

Last month, the firm's CEO nearly ran over a tenant advocate with his truck.

James, who finished with 30 points, joked around with a pregnant woman sitting court - side after nearly running her over during Friday's game.

I walk Violet to school every day along a busy road and I am repeatedly shocked by how many people are looking down at their phones while in full motion (and subsequently nearly run us over).

I once, for instance, completely flustered and enraged a careless driver who nearly ran over my then toddler and stroller - riding infant daughters and me as she rolled into a gas station simply by calmly staring at her.

He arrives on freshman orientation day, standing proud outside his dorm, when he's nearly run over by a girl with way too many bags.

On the 6th floor of the Hilton leading to the roof, I was nearly run over by the cast of «Les Miserables,» all of whom were in high spirits after their big wins in -LSB-...]

About ten years ago I nearly ran over a little springer that darted in front of my truck as it chased a rabbit.

While driving home from dinner one warm Sunday summer night, a CC4C member nearly ran over a 3 - week - old kitten huddled in the middle of Bancroft Street.

Not exact matches

Immediately after the movie was finished I ran to my computer to see where Steve Madden's stock trades today and it turns out that the popular women's shoe company is up nearly 10 % over the last 12 months — and a whopping 567 % over the last five years.

The chief reason the OMP has no foreign diversification is that long - run returns on Canadian stocks are better than the global average, and nearly as good as returns on U.S. stocks (best performing country over the past two centuries).

The JPB Foundation, which she runs with a lean staff, has assets of over $ 3 billion and gave out nearly $ 120 million in 2014.

After hitting a 6 - year high against the U.S. dollar in 2017, it appears the euro bull run may be coming to an end, pulling back nearly 4 percent against its rival over the past three months

Indeed, looking at two nearly - identical tax reform packages, the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated in 2011 that one producing $ 600 billion of net revenue would generate about one - third more growth over the long run than a revenue - neutral tax reform with the same structure.

Indeed, looking at two nearly identical tax reform packages, the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated in 2011 that one producing $ 600 billion of net revenue would generate about one - third more growth over the long run than a revenue - neutral tax reform with the same structure.

Indeed, the run - up in stock prices over the last month has been fairly impressive, with broad global indexes up nearly 4 % over the period.

I have run into this cognitive wall over and over again, and it comes out in the linguistic patterns of the written conversations I have had with pastors and elders I have known for nearly a decade.

Christianity Today: Q & A: Marco Rubio on His Faith of Many Colors As speculation has grown over who Mitt Romney will pick as his running mate, Florida Senator Marco Rubio has topped nearly every list.

Dodgers utility man Kiké Hernandez had the game of his life Thursday night, hitting three home runs and driving in seven runs to lead his team to an 11 - 1 win over the Cubs to clinch the National League pennant and the franchise's first World Series trip in nearly three decades.

Whatley unleashed that bomb because Alabama fans had started apremature countdown to try to rush a shot by the Bulldogs, who had the ballbefore turning it over, and Whatley thought time had nearly run out.

That was the case right up until an almost miraculous block of a Gareth Bale shot during a terrifying sequence of Real attacking nearly found the back of the net, finally letting Atlético launch forward on the counter — and Juanfran found Carrasco running for the far post, drilling a low cross to the Belgian that got emphatically fired home to level the scoreline and send Atlético fans all over the world into rapturous joy.

Update: On Wednesday, August 27th, Bovada posted an incredible number of player specific props including an over / under on rushing yards for nearly every starting running back in the NFL.

Over four runs the team won by nearly a full second, handing a rare drubbing to the Germans, who have won eight world four - man titles since 2000.

Over the summer he ran nearly 700 miles.

We could have more money if Gazidis had done better over the years with sponsorships, Gazidis has been around for nearly a decade now... We have lost sponsorships due to contracts running out.

Arsenal looked very comfortable but maybe a little too relaxed, and Huddersfield made quite a few good runs into our box and nearly scored when an excellent freekick gave one of their strikers a free header in the box after 20 minutes but luckily he met it all wrong and it flew over the bar.

During her team's state playoff run, Cayton stepped up her game to average nearly 16 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3 assists and 2.5 steals over three NorCal contests and the state final.

In fact, they haven't even been that close — the totals have gone over by an average margin of nearly two runs.

I don't know if it is significant, but at the end of today's match Lennon ran onto the pitch, hustled straight over to Lonergan and nearly bowled over the much bigger man, obviously elated at his performance.

Joseph Could Joseph's decades» long run in the top 20 be nearly over?

That total is nearly 60,000 votes higher than the previous record of 183,672 set by Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2010 (Gillibrand, who was running to fill the remaining two years in the term of her predecessor, Hillary Clinton, received 182,624 on the WFP line that year), and approximately 80,000 over the party's highest 2008 statewide total, which was 159,613 for President Obama.

HOOSICK FALLS >> The Democrat running against incumbent state Sen. Kathy Marchione found a unique and high - profile way Tuesday to criticize the Halfmoon Republican over her handling of the water contamination crisis that has plagued the village and the town of Hooisick for nearly a year.

Mychajliw, who was first elected to fill a one - year unexpired term before winning a full four - year term in 2013, raised nearly $ 500,000 over the past five years to run three county comptroller campaigns, Grant said.

De Blasio continues to maintain a sizable financial advantage over all his likely challengers as he runs for re-election in New York, having brought in $ 414,123 in contributions and spent nearly as much over the last two months, according to a campaign fund - raising report filed yesterday.

Democrat Nick Krupski won the first seat on the Board of Trustees by nearly 800 votes and, in the tightest race of the night, incumbent Republican Dave Bergen leads for the second seat by just five votes over running mate Glenn Goldsmith in another race too close to call.

And after a bitter clash with Mr. Cuomo last fall over boosting the city's contribution to the state - run Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Mr. de Blasio agreed to cough up $ 2.5 billion toward the transit system — only to have the MTA shear funding for construction of the Second Avenue Subway by nearly $ 1 billion.

The disgraced former New York representative is running to reclaim his 11th District seat with Bannon's backing, after resigning from the House in 2015 over a nearly $ 1 million tax evasion scandal.

With a little over a month to go before the election, Hawkins and Brian Jones, who is running for lieutenant governor, have made strides in pulling together a bloc of people and organizations fed up with the status quo under Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo — at a time when, according to a Wall Street Journal / Marist poll, nearly half of New Yorkers think the state is moving in the wrong direction.

(CNN)- He may be struggling to woo the political rank and file, but a new poll suggests that Michael Bloomberg is getting a far warmer reception among his city's voters: in a Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday, nearly two out of three New Yorkers approve of how Michael Bloomberg is handling his duties as mayor, giving him double - digit leads over two Democratic challengers as he runs for re-election to a third term.

Astorino, who is polling nearly 40 points behind Cuomo, twisted the knife, suggesting that the two governors — who together help run the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey — might be protecting one another over Bridgegate.

Thanks to a personal connection, one of the most successful biotechnology companies in the United States is apparently the new title sponsor of the Science Talent Search (STS), the prestigious high school science competitions run by the Society for Science and the Public (SSP) in Washington, D.C. New York - based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. will invest $ 100 million over the next 10 years to become the third such sponsor in STS's nearly 75 - year - long history, according to several media outlets.

To compute one of the two main simulation runs, over 24,000 processors were used over the course of more than two months to follow the formation of millions of galaxies in a representative region of the universe with nearly one billion light - years on a side.

Britain's fast reactor programme has been running for nearly 40 years at a total cost of over # 4 billion.

It's little over 2 years later and the past 6 weeks I've been doing about half an hour of cardo (running) each week and focused the rest of my time (about 5 - 6 hours / week) on mixing cardio and strengh for an all - over body training (again, I was pretty much completely out of shape before these 6 weeks) and fair enough, I've watch my food intake (it's been VERY clean, lots of whole food) but I've gained so much muscle mass, lost 5,5 kg in weight and even more importantly — nearly 7 % body fat!

For just over a year, I have spent nearly every Wednesday night and Saturday morning running a warm up pace that makes me overheat, then starting the interval workout which involves me sometimes running slower than the «warm up pace «and watching the lithe people run away from me at incredible speeds, then «slinky - ing «forward while they run back for me on the recovery, watching them sprint away from me some more, and then eventually finding myself labouring up a hill to exit the river valley at the end of the workout to find the group of speedsters waiting to fist pound it out before we run back to the shop at a cool down pace which only makes me sweat even more.

i once tried to remove a water jug at work and it was stuck so i lowered my head to look over it... pulllllled super hard and it popped off smacked me in the face, i nearly passed out it hurt so bad, ran back to my office with a massive nose bleed crying.

According to the digital platform INC, over «27 million working - age Americans — nearly 14 percent — are starting or running new businesses» within the United States.

Kudos to you for running a marathon — I completed a half - marathon with my dad this spring and nearly keeled over afterward, I couldn't imagine doing that distance AGAIN!

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But the movie runs out of steam early, and only regains its kick via a laughable left - field, last - act plot twist that subverts nearly everything Cortés (who wrote and directed) had been suggesting about the importance of self - determination over faith.