Example sentences of "pull [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt sticky and heavy , as if she was trying to pull herself out of the chlorinated pool with the water dragging at her bulk , breaking the surface tension with an effort . |
| 2 | Holwell got a second after the interval with the Exmouth captain , Rosie Goodridge , pulling one back in the last minute . |
| 3 | Pulling herself out of the dazed state into which the woman 's embittered words had thrown her , she tried for a non-committal tone . |
| 4 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 5 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 6 | Lee Philpott pulled one back in the 73rd minute and then super sub John Francis scored twice to grab an unlikely draw . |
| 7 | But still United pushed forward , Simpson a free kick went over the cross bar in the twenty third minute and then , just as I was giving a flash to Radio Oxford listeners , United pulled one back on the half hour . |
| 8 | After Gary Blissett had pulled one back in the 78th minute , substitute Marcus Gayle missed a great chance four minutes from the final whistle to level it . |
| 9 | She pulled herself out of the unsealed suit and peered through the shuttle 's windows at the featureless walls of the landing bay . |
| 10 | A tallish hummock loomed , and he pulled her down into the wet grass behind it . |
| 11 | Something in their need of her pulled her back from the seductive slide into oblivion . |
| 12 | Cos you just pull them out of the first brackets of each one . |
| 13 | Replacing the shoebox but leaving the tell-tale sea of marbles , he stood on Vic 's bed and tried , without success , to jump and pull himself up to the small opening . |
| 14 | In short , to explore ways by which the BBC could pull itself out of the on-going financial crisis but , at the same time , to maintain the quality of the product . |
| 15 | She had no energy to swim in the water and pull herself out on the small strip of toilet paper left from the last flushing of the toilet . |
| 16 | She clasped her daughter 's hand in despair , as if she would pull her back from the falsely-beckoning light . |
| 17 | and pull it in to the small boat ? |
| 18 | Pull it in to the small boat , lay it on a box and then we 'd pull the chain in by hand and then we 'd rerun it further up the river . |
| 19 | Yep … thanks Chappie … you helped pull us back into the big time and gave us a lot of enjoyment ( even when you fell over when trying to control the ball : - ) . |