CamLit: Campaign against the misuse of the word "literally"
It's literally the bee's knees!
Also check out some other literally
links: Guardian
Unlimited: A bit of lit crit, Literally
Decimated, Figuratively Speaking, Robert
Fulford's column.
- From our learned friends at
the Collins English Dictionary:
- The use of literally as an
intensifier is common, esp. in informal
contexts. In some cases, it provides emphasis without adding
to the
meaning: 'the house was literally only five minutes walk away'.
Often,
however, its use results in absurdity: 'the news was literally
an
eye-opener to me'. It is therefore best avoided in formal
contexts.
Greg Rutherford literally destroyed the oppostion.
Michael Johnson, commentating on long jump at the 2015 World Athletics Championships.
Pretty much the game was won and there was no complacency but they've literally pulled the rabbit out of the hat.
Derbyshire captain Wes Durston after losing their T20 match to Durham.
Your good wishes and sympathy literally blew us away.
Michael Schumacher's wife Corinna, offering a message of heartfelt thanks to F1 fans for their support.
It's my lifeline, I literally go everywhere on it.
Woman interviewed on BBC programme about mobility scooters
As I allowed my binoculars to linger one last time on the dark, desolate lake, in flew the duck - literally into our binocs!
Delhibirdpix email group
Viv Richards could literally destroy any attack in world cricket.
Dilip Vengsarkar
It is amazing to have everything quite literally at your fingertips.
Article about Getting Things Done productivity method
Our entire office can literally be on our iPhone, Android, iPad, Tablet, or laptop.
Article about Getting Things Done productivity method
Sachin [Tendulkar] is literally on the off stump.
Saurav Ganguly, commentating on England v India
[Graham] Swann has literally an umbrella kind of field.
Ravi Shastri (literally flowing with them), still commentating on England v India
[Kevin] Pietersen is literally toying with Amit Mishra.
Ravi Shastri, again commentating on England v India
[Kevin] Pietersen is literally taking the attack to Amit Mishra.
Ravi Shastri, commentating on England v India
[Andrew] Strauss has literally dug in for the day.
Alan Wilkins, commentating on England v India
If these allegations are true it would literally break the hearts of millions.
Channel 9, USA; about Lance Armstrong and doping
The photographer has literally pulled the row of hills together.
Practical Photography magazine
It is literally to die for.
Recipe for Turkish Gozleme - tasty definitely, but not THAT good!
The Roufus [sic] Sibia literally took my breath away when I saw it
Comment on a birding blog about India
He [Suresh Kalmadi] literally screwed up the games from the day one.
Comment on BBC blog about the Commonwealth Games in Delhi
We've literally got almost 100% of the organic market sewn up.
Organic produce advertiser
Two premier NHL goalies, Roberto Luongo and Evgeni Nabakov, will literally be carrying their countries on their shoulders.
Report on Canada v Russia Ice Hockey in the Winter Olympics
The Foreign-Exchange Market has literally exploded in the last 10 years.
mandango.biz financial blog
The position of the Assistant Property Manager is assigned to a Property Manager and a designated portfolio of properties and will literally become wedded to both.
Craigslist job advert
I walked along with Ashley Banwell and another man and a Purple Sandpiper literally walked across us on the shingle.
Penny Clarke's blog
The land literally flowed with milk and honey.
"Little Women", Louisa May Alcott
[Tom Sawyer] was literally rolling in wealth.
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Mark Twain
[Jay Gatsby] literally glowed.
"The Great Gatsby", F Scott Fitzgerland
[Mozart was] the acme of first class music as such, literally knocking everything else into a cocked hat.
"Ullyses", James Joyce
This homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women and children who get in its way.
The late Jerry Falwell
Many of you will know me from my famous book, titled "The Liver Cleansing Diet" which literally shot to fame like a shining meteorite.
Liverdoctor.com website
My rocket has literally taken off.
Work colleague talking about his garden. He was referring to the salad vegetable, and not a firework or space travel vehicle, so this does indeed qualify as a misuse!
I'm literally falling apart.
Lindsay Lohan, in Vanity Fair magazine. She was commenting after a hair extension fell out, so disappointingly this is actually a correct use of the word!
Everyday I get literally bombarded with event invitations.
Facebook blog post.
MG Road and Church Street literally offer the world on a platter.
Bangalore Times newspaper.
Andy Johnson was literally banjoed out of the game by a player who made no attempt to win the ball.
A bad tackle in a Europa League game was not music to the ears of Fulham boss Roy Hodgson.
[My mom's] fried chicken would literally put on tennis shoes and run the f*** into your mouth.
Recipe from "Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price".
[Harbhajan] literally drilled that through the offside.
Ravi Shastri, India v Australia
She may be a sensation on the music scene, but pop star Lady GaGa’s daring outfits have landed her, quite literally, in hot soup.
Bangalore Times
Servet is literally - literally - up his backside there.
Andy Townsend, pundit for Czech Republic vs Turkey Euro 2008 match, quoted in FourFourTwo magazine
This Darjeeling-born woman literally grew up with her head in the clouds.
India Today magazine article
[There are] literally hundreds of millions of poor countries in Africa.
Peter Hain in a BBC interview
Manchester are literally slicing up Kiev here.
David Pleat, commentating on Manchester United v Dynamo Kiev
My stomach is literally doing somersaults.
Emma Forbes, TV presenter and a contestant in Celebrity Masterchef
It is a delight to have caught you literally in the net.
Bngbirds email group posting, referring to long-lost friends being reunited
I literally bumped into a group of nine laughing thrush.
Birding trip report for Thailand
Somewhat surprising that the thrushes were laughing after such an experience
I have never worked harder to photograph a bird than this one! We had to literally walk a vertical mile in shola and elephant grass...
Ramki, Bangalore-based photographer (having photographed Broad-tailed Grassbird at Munnar, Kerala)
A tidal power company were literally working on a shoestring.
John Redman, Severn Tidal Power Group
Sounds precarious, especially if it was dangling over the estuary!
He literally assured us of frame-filling images of otherwise shy & elusive birds...
India-Nature-Pixs email group
Despite the literally gut-wrenching manner in which Tottenham lost their Champions League spot to Arsenal...
Ray Collins, The Sunday Telegraph
The Polish Embassy almost literally pushed the boat out when throwing a banquet.
Diplomatic Dinners, BBC Radio 4
Many hundreds (if not thousands) of Yellow-breasted Buntings are being captured
this autumn and literally being killed to be used as a delicasy (sic) in food dishes.
Lee Evans, Surfbirds mailing list.
An unnecessary literally, if not an incorrect one. Unless there is indeed a way
of metaphorically killing a Yellow-breasted Bunting?
The 9/11 threat literally froze the passengers of a Hyderabad-bound train following a bomb hoax call.
The Times of India newspaper
Quite an achievement in 35 degree heat!
Trains are running 25% slower because the tracks are literally cooking.
BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat
What a chance that was - literally delivered to him on a plate.
Andy Townsend, Germany v Italy, ITV
You can see that Figo has literally been everywhere.
Andy Townsend, Angola v Portugal, ITV
For a while i've been literally hunting for the book on birds of the Indian subcontinent.
Birds of Bombay email group
This shallow crater
lake was literally jam-packed with birds.
Birdwatching Breaks
trip report to Ethiopia
Vieira was robbed
by Pires, quite literally.
Clive Tyldesley,
ITV, Arsenal v Juventus
A tripod system is
literally an extension of a cameraman’s limb on the field.
Digital Studio magazine
All the hills were
literally dripping with springs, nallahs and rivulets.
Indian birder
They literally gutted the dog.
BBC News article about squirrels in Russia. (A real literally gutted!)
British officials
have literally been working around the clock [to help
people caught up in hurricane Katrina].
Today Programme, Radio 4
That was hit with
such power it's literally gone through Michael Clarke
at gully.
Michael Slater, Channel 4 Cricket, England v
Australia
You can literally
cut the atmosphere with a knife.
Mark Nicholas, Channel 4 Cricket, England v Australia
Kasey Keller comes
flying out, literally.
John Motson, BBC Match of the Day, USA v England
Liverpool have literally
come back from the grave.
BBC Sports News, reporting on Liverpool's comeback
in the UEFA Champions League Final
Billions of pounds
are literally being flushed down the toilet.
Breakfast TV
A Jack Snipe flushed out from literally
under our feet.
Indian Birder
The government has
literally ploughed millions of pounds into the soil in
this area.
Michaela Strachan, BBC Countryfile
History is literally
unfolding in front of your eyes.
Caroline Hawley, BBC correspondent in Baghdad
They whitewashed
us, literally scrubbed us through the brushes.
Rugby correspondent, BBC Radio 5 Live
James Milner is literally
hugging the touchline.
Football correspondent, BBC Radio 5 Live
I literally
stumbled across a Snow Bunting.
Sussex birder
India will quite
literally be your oyster.
Lastminute.com Indian
cooking holiday
Some businesses would
be literally lost without a Personal Digital Assistant
(PDA).
HSBC Business Update
newsletter
It was only a push
and the ball literally flew to the boundary.
Mike Gatting, England
v South Africa, Radio 4 Test Match Special
It was a bad ball,
short and wide, and Gibbs literally threw the bat at
it.
Jonathan Agnew,
England v South Africa, Radio 4 Test Match Special
Send the burger and
you are literally sending a hot potato.
Article about complaining
(about a dodgy burger), Jeremy Vine show, Radio 2
Greg Rusedski literally
threw the match away.
Spectator being
interviewed on Radio 5 Live
This new telescope
opens new horizons, quite literally.
Richard Ives, Sussex
Ornithological Society newsletter
Going into the cabin
is literally stepping into the past.
Jill Cordes, describing
how rustic Trapper John's B&B seems
He literally
threaded the ball across the goal.
Ron "It-has-to-be-said"
Jones, Radio 5 Live
They were literally
pulverised by Australia.
Ravi Shastri, Radio
5 Live
If he wins the roof
will literally come off.
Mark Winstanley,
racing correspondent, previewing Cheltenham Festival, Radio
5 Live
The Sri Lankans literally
gave the game away.
Kris Srikkanth
The next half-an-hour
is literally overflowing with cricket.
Sportsline, Star
Sports
The Indian players
have been on the road, literally, for two or three years.
Ravi Shastri
I'm fascinated by
Jane Austen because she's literally in my blood. She's
my great-aunt from eight generations ago.
Anna Chancellor,
quoted in Radio Times
Attempting to use 'literally' correctly
but failing miserably!
Is it literally
wall to wall cricket?
John Humphries interviewing
Gareth Batty about a new cricket academy, Radio
The whole thing will
be literally mothballed from that moment on.
Kevin Connolly,
Radio 5 Live, commenting on the effects of the break-up of government
from Stormont
Tap the pedal to
the floor and the Earth opens up. Literally.
Ford Ikon advert,
Outlook magazine, India
The film has literally
been heaped with praise.
Outlook magazine,
India
We can literally
take a post office to a village in a suitcase.
Radio 5 Live
The plans are literally
to start a bonfire of police paperwork.
David Blunkett,
Radio 4
You get carried away,
literally carried away, with enthusiasm.
Steve Wright to
Murray Walker, Radio 2
The fireman will
be keeping an eye on the fire, literally, for a couple
of days.
BBC Radio Five Live
Roy Keane has got
too big for his boots, literally.
Mike Ingham, BBC
Radio Five Live
As soon as I looked
at the children I could tell... ...it was 95 degrees and they
were literally baking.
Sheriff Fred Abdalla,
Jefferson County, after arresting a woman for having sunburnt
children, Daily Mail
The left hand quite
literally disagrees with the right hand.
Orange mobile phone
e-mail list
West Brom are literally
hanging on.
Ivan Gaskell, BBC
Grandstand, West Bromwich Albion v Fulham
Michael Jackson almost
literally stole the headlines.
Channel 4 News
She drove away, literally,
over the first hurdle.
Sally Gunnell
They'll be throwing
me to the dogs - literally if the Slater sisters are
there!
Janine, Eastenders
The village has literally
been through a mangle.
Bob Sinkinson, BBC
Radio Five Live
He was literally
trying to smooth over water with oil on it.
Brian Clough, talking
about Alex Ferguson, BBC Radio Five Live
We've literally
been to the ends of the Earth to find the best clip art.
Clip art website
How to make your
website literally worldwide .
Internet article,
Austin Business Journal
As athletes these
triple jumpers are literally human kangaroos.
Stuart Storey, European
Championships, BBC
The web is literally
crawling with portal sites.
Click for Choice
search engine
Literally,
the centre of the city was blanketed by security guards.
Bogotá Correspondent,
Radio Five Live
I'm going to literally
crack down on crack and cocaine.
David Blunkett,
BBC Radio 5 Live
Each
England game has literally been a home game.
Graham Taylor, regarding
England's World Cup games in South Korea and Japan
You could literally
be dancing on the ceiling.
Davina McCall
I am literally
between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Roger Broadbent,
debating whether to give up on the Dawlish Elegant Tern
I am also quite literally
tripping over Dartford Warblers on the western heaths.
Alan Perry, Sussex
Ornithological Society
They were literally
stepping into the unknown.
Submarine documentary,
Channel 5
The taxi is tiny
- I'm literally shoe-horned into the front seat.
Report on Bejing,
Radio Five Live, 1st Feb 2002
When Andre Agassi
meets a qualifier, he tends to literally steamroller
them.
Ian Carter, BBC
Tennis Correspondent, Radio Five Live, 28th Aug 2001
We would literally
be playing Russian roulette with our children's health.
Liam Donaldson,
Chief Medical Officer, on the MMR vaccine (quoted on BBC website)
I was literally
painting the garden with the flowers.
Flying Gardener,
BBC2
The swifts were literally
hoovering up the flies.
Bill Oddie, BBC2
You could buy literally
anything you wanted.
Radio 5 article
about an ironmongers.
Rahman’s been literally
bursting with confidence all week.
Boxing Commentator,
Lewis vs Rahman 2 build-up, Radio Five Live, 18th Nov 2001.
All hell broke loose
- literally.
Report on the rowdy
Lewis - Tyson press conference, Radio 5.
This chilli will
literally blow your head off!
UK Food Channel
The ground is so
dry around Sydney that fires can flare up literally at
the drop of a hat.
TV Commentator
Thousands of Swallows
form dark clouds and just before dark literally fall
from the sky like rain into the reeds.
Pretoriabirds E-mail
Group
Two stunning male
Chestnut Buntings literally dropped out of the sky.
Birdwatch Magazine
The next step is
deciding if owning a horse is something you should consider.
Owning a horse is expensive and it requires time. It's a far
larger undertaking, not just literally, then deciding
to own a cat or dog.
A great example
of the correct use of literally!
Asylum seekers are
literally being used as pawns.
BBC Radio 4
Go through any door
in Bali and you literally step into a different world.
BBC Holiday Programme
Either side and he'd
have scored, but it was straight, literally, down the
keeper's throat.
Commentator, Radio
5 Live
The sky quite literally
fell in on Bell Harbour.
Channel 4 News
The MOBO awards literally
do mix up a large bag of performers.
Radio 5
The bird literally
threw itself off the cliff.
Anon
When I watched Moulin
Rouge I was literally in heaven.
Radio 5
The discovery...
...literally rewrote the history books.
Secret History,
Channel 4
It could have gone
either way, but we literally ran out of legs.
Keith Allan, President,
England Roller Hockey Association, Radio 5 Live
I would suggest that
the press is literally gagged during this trial.
Panellist on phone-in,
talking about the potential trial of the Hamiltons, Radio 5
Live
The West Indian bowlers
Ramadhin and Valentine literally faded away in the remaining
Tests.
ChennaiOnline article
about Peter May
Amelia Erhart and
her navigator were literally
marooned on a desert island.
The Today Programme,
Radio 4. Bet that put a bit of colour in her cheeks!
My arm is literally
killing me.
Rich Andrews' mate
in Ayia Napa (after a rigorous pounding on a giant inflatable
marine-banana)
She is literally
a polaroid of perfection.
Clueless, Children's
TV
A burst water main
has literally lifted the road surface by two feet.
Jo Sale, Radio 5
Live
The police were literally
swimming in a sea of red herrings.
Sun Reporter regarding
the Jill Dando murder trial.
This was literally
a shocking murder.
BBC Newsnight
Do you object to
these private companies making tens of millions of pounds, literally
without raising a finger?
John Humphreys (to
John Prescott), Today Programme, BBC Radio 4
Technically correct!
NHS Primary Care
is literally damaging patients.
BBC Breakfast News
Paris is literally
awash with chateaux.
Harriet Saxton,
Holiday (literally?) on a Shoestring, BBC 1
The crowd literally
went wild when Nelson Mandela appeared.
Radio 5 Live
We've had literally
millions of e-mails.
Chris Moyles, Radio
1
There aren't many
Page 3 girls - literally a handful.
Chris Moyles, Radio
1
These people were
literally up his bum.
Boy George, referring
to the 'bum' of David Bowie, and 'these people' were Steve Strange
of Visage and Marilyn
Potentially a correct use of literally
then!
Once again Alesi
having to literally throw the Prost into a corner - that
really does look evil that car.
Martin Brundle,
British Grand Prix 2000
He has literally
put his money where his mouth is.
Radio 5 Live, on
new BT Chairman Christopher Bland
The ground floor
was literally swimming in water.
BBC1 Real Rooms
The sweat was literally
dripping off the ceiling.
Dave Pearce, Radio
1
The supermarkets
really should be contributing more towards the farmers who are
literally on their knees.
Lembit Opik MP
Jody Scheckter spun
out of control... ...precipitating a chain reaction that had
Grandstand viewers literally falling out of their armchairs.
FHM Formula 1 Diary
If they cannot be
transported soon, some cows will literally pass their
sell by date.
Nick Clarke, World
at One
My car is literally
on its last legs.
Mike's work colleague
Derby have literally
hung on by the skin of their teeth.
Football correspondent,
BBC Grandstand
Everton have literally
steamrollered Coventry.
Football correspondent,
BBC Grandstand
The best [motor]
show of them all is on my doorstep... literally.
Contributor, Motoring
website
The Sun speak to
Nikoro Vieira, brother of Patrick, on his fears that his brother
will be literally kicked out of English football. "Will
it only stop when they have broken his leg?" he said.
BBC Sport website
It was literally
a game of two halves
Sports reporter,
Radio Bristol
Boateng literally
took his legs away.
BBC Radio 5
I looked at the paper
and her photo literally jumped out at me.
This is Your Life
Alzheimer's is a
cruel disease, it causes someone to literally disintegrate
before your very eyes.
BBC News 24
We are literally
leading the world.
Tony Blair, about
the Millennium Dome
Britain is literally
turning into a nation of couch potatoes.
Article about obesity,
Today Programme, BBC Radio 4
The NHS is literally
straining every sinew.
Alan Milburn, BBC
Radio 5
The website literally
caught my eye.
Trey, Live and Kicking,
BBC1
This company with
its tiny generators could quite literally change the
world.
Finance website
I literally
work over the road.
Internet mailing
list
The US presidency
was literally suspended overnight.
John Snow, Channel
4 News
A section of Cardiff
Bay only supported literally a handful of Curlew.
BTO Employee
People have literally
voted with their feet.
Radio 5, on the
Great North Run
Sorry this report
is so late, but Ralph's computer got stuck by lightning
(literally!) and this put him out of action for a while.
UKBN Posting
It's over us - literally
on top of us
Cockney Birder at
Cliff Swallow twitch, Portland, September 2000
I was literally
in a shop.
- BBC Radio 5 (most-boring-but-actually-correct-use-of-the-word!)
The fuel crisis caused
people to literally take off into hysteria.
- BBC Radio 5
I found the book
in a shop in Paris whilst literally browsing through
the shelves.
- BBC Radio 4
The news should literally
jump out at the reader.
- Shares Magazine
He literally
flew around the bowl.
- BBC Olympic Cycling
Commentator
Vialli was literally
bowled over and flabbergasted.
- BBC Football Focus
They literally,
LITERALLY ring the church bells in Italy when a Ferrari
wins.
- Murray Walker,
Italian Grand Prix
My heart almost literally
bleeds when I see Jacques Villeneuve out.
- Murray Walker,
Italian Grand Prix
You need to have
eyes in the back of your head, literally.
- Norfolk Garage
Attendant
The viewer literally
becomes a Meercat.
- Mischievous Meercats,
Discovery Channel
The toilet is quite
literally a shit-hole.
- Craig Cash describing
the "gentleman's room" on an Indian train (strictly
speaking, this is correct!)
Flouride in water
is literally a cocktail of contaminants.
- Campaign Director,
National Pure Water Association
Darren Gough really
is bowling superbly, he's literally on fire.
- Michael Slater,
Channel 4
Slovenia literally
took their eye off the ball.
- Mark Lawrenson,
BBC MOTD
Africa is not just
a place you go to with binoculars and just observe. You literally
inhale her.
- Kim Basinger talking
about being on location for her new film
The team literally
froze
- unhappy Shrewsbury
Town fan, BBC Radio 5
You need to get literally
get the operator on the phone
- Tutor, Computing
Course
Dave on the phones' head has quite
literally exploded
- BBC Radio 1 Breakfast
Show
Schumacher literally blew
the socks off the opposition in Malaysia.
- Grand Prix Legends
Newletter
That was literally a tune
and a half.
- Sara Cox, BBC
Radio 1 Breakfast Show
Computer viruses can literally
wipe your disk clean!
- Peter Lack, BTO
Head of IT
WAP literally puts the
Internet in your pocket.
- BT Cellnet website
A good England performance can
literally lift the spirits of the nation.
- Tim Lamb, English
Cricket Board, BBC Radio 5
The Stadium of Light literally
shakes with noise.
- Tony Gubba, Match
of the Day
I fell off the plank because,
literally, my legs went to jelly.
- Davina McCall,
Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, BBC Radio 1
Arsenal
literally swept Wimbledon aside
- Mark Lawrenson,
Match Of The Day
The Indonesians literally
pulled themselves up by their bootlaces
- BBC Radio 5
Toadfish is eating out of Lou's
hand - literally!
- Neighbours
After leaving prison, I was literally
a time-bomb waiting to go off
- ex-con, BBC2
The horse literally floats
across the field
- Pet Rescue
I was re-born - literally!
- ITV lunchtime
news
The nation was literally
gripped by the storyline
- Lowry, BBC2
The economy is literally
spiralling out of control
- BBC Radio 5
You bounced two direct debits
on this man and he's literally up in arms.
· Lloyds TSB person
I got chased by some wasps and
had to literally leave my notebook in the field and run.
· John Martin, WEBS
count at Axe Estuary (and he did literally leave his notebook
and run!)
It [White-tailed Eagle] is
literally like an ironing board.
· Simon King, BBC
Wildlife Programme
Chelsea, being pushed forwards
by this big house, are literally crucifying the Wearsiders.
· Local radio station,
quoted by Harry Pearson in 'The Far Corner'
We have literally got fingers
in pies all over the place.
· Chairman of Bristol
Chamber of Commerce
He literally kicked the
ball through a cloud of defenders.
· BBC Radio 5 Live,
Derby v Leeds, 5/12/1999
I've just come here, literally
hotfoot, from the Davis Cup draw this morning
· Ian Carter, BBC
Radio 5 Live
We can not, of course, compete
with Thornbury, where you are literally treated like
a leopard if you don't have a hanging basket outside your shop.
· Chairman of Portishead
in Bloom
The cove is literally full
of Kittawakes (sic).
· Mark Carwardine
in Iceland
He [wealthy politican] is literally
ploughing money into the campaign.
· World Tonight,
BBC Radio 4
The bird literally dropped
out of the sky as I was photographing a Grey-tailed Tattler
· Rich Fuller, in
his submission for Halmahera's first Little Curlew
(A genuine BUBO literally!)
He literally got into the
right shape of mind.
· Sally Gunnell,
reporting on Dwain Chambers' 100m
bronze medal at the World Championships in Seville
Denise Lewis literally
bounced back in the High Jump.
· David Coleman
You can literally see the
drivers wrestling with the wheels.
· BBC South Today,
report on powerboat racing
We are literally being
asked to jump onto glass.
· David Trimble
(or some other Unionist),
regarding the Northern Ireland peace talks
He will literally have
the sun in his pocket.
· Scaramanga, The
Man with the Golden Gun
There has been a literally
seismic shift in Sinn Fein's position.
· Tony Blair, BBC
Radio 5
There are only a handful of teachers,
literally, earning £40,000 a year.
· BBC Radio 5
By paying your building insurance
with your mortgage you could be literally throwing
your money away.
· Direct Line TV
commercial
We've literally
head-hunted the best group of buyers in the business.
· QVC Shopping Channel
Paula Radcliffe is literally
chasing the clock.
· Brendan Foster,
Balmoral Invitation Five Mile Road Race, April 1999
You are quite literally
bursting for a pee by the time you get to the car.
· Damon Hill
He literally blew his opponent
away.
· Ian Carter, BBC
Radio 5, report on a Tennis match
I come from Boscastle, where I
remember the harbour being literally full of Grey Seals.
· Tutor, Computing
course
Following 15 years of research,
results are literally flooding out of the laboratories.
· BBC Radio 4
Genetically modified crops are
made by taking part of the DNA from one plant and literally
firing it into another plant.
· BBC Radio 4
The corporate market is being
projected to literally explode at over 200 percent.
· Report on Internet
telephony, Faulkner Information Services
Following Hurricane Mitch, food
supplies in Honduras have literally been running out.
· BBC Radio 4
Two Mafia bosses escaped from
a courthouse literally from under the noses of their
guards.
· BBC Radio 4
They are trying to literally
drive the mud out of town.
· BBC News reporter
I was petrified, literally
petrified.
· Survivor of fire,
BBC South Local News
What was it like when literally
the whole world stopped to notice you?
· John Inverdale,
On Side, BBC1
We have literally barrow-loads
of evidence that cigarette advertising does not increase smoking
habits.
· Max Mosley, BBC
Radio 5
Hartson had to literally fight
for the ball.
· Alan Parry, Sky
Sports, West Ham v Arsenal
They're literally signing
the peace process on the bodies of dead men.
· Member of public,
Northern Ireland, BBC Radio 5
One lottery winner literally
blew his fortune of £2.5 million.
· Today Programme,
BBC Radio 4
I was literally incandescent
with rage.
· Unnamed politician
The parents were literally
whisked around the school.
· Teacher, Thornhill
High School
Space-station Mir is literally
a few tin cans joined together.
· Space correspondent,
BBC Radio 5
Hingis is literally threatening
the worms under the ground.
· Tennis commentator,
BBC Radio 5
We had to literally suspend
trading for the afternoon.
· Disgruntled businessman,
BBC Look North
James literally swallowed
the ball into his chest.
· Gary Stevens,
BBC Radio 5, Southampton v Liverpool
Zola literally clubs the
ball around the park.
· Trevor Steven,
BBC Radio 5, Sunderland v Chelsea
The sound system was literally
deafening to the people in the nearby village.
· West Country News
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