Example sentences of "[noun sg] pull [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then someone would have to wade into the mouth of the tunnel with a hooked stick to pull out the blockage so that the blood could run away freely . |
| 2 | TURKEY will be on an incredible £12,000-a-man bonus to pull off the greatest result in their football history at Wembley tomorrow . |
| 3 | But Beaumont is already confident that the eight-year-old will make a bold bid to pull off the feat in 12 months ' time . |
| 4 | The Japanese High Command pulled out the BIA , sent Colonel Suzuki back to Japan , and finally disbanded his private army in July 1942 . |
| 5 | 8 The defender pulls back the fist ready for a second strike , should it be necessary . |
| 6 | As soon as the ambulance pulled away the reporter made his way over to Jack . |
| 7 | But in this case the enlightened engineer was concerned to do precisely the opposite , and as the digger pulled back the rubble , he exposed an area of wall which looked for a moment as if it was made entirely of shiny cream bones . |
| 8 | I was on the grass below the paddock when Ronnie 's car pulled off the road with a completely inexplicable failure : inexplicable in that Ronnie could find no reason why his car , which had been going so well , should suddenly come to a halt . |
| 9 | The obstetrician pulled out the feet , then the bottom , then suddenly i had this huge sinking feeling as my bump disappeared and most of the baby shot out and landed on my tummy . |
| 10 | The phantom of the opera is here inside my mind pull back the curtains |
| 11 | This section of land lies between the canal and the River Tame and leads along to the A5127 northeast-bound where there might be room for a vehicle to pull off the road into the gateway to load up beneath the M6 . |
| 12 | But it was another slender figure , a woman , shimmying up on to the port wing , from there on to the scorching hull , running along the curve in great , light strides and flinging her arm out in front of her , pointing with her index and little fingers at the mob pulling down the man . |
| 13 | The other end was already harnessed to a team of horses , so it was easy work pulling off the entire roof in one smack . |
| 14 | It was dark outside and The Fat Controller pulled up the velvet collar of his overcoat . |
| 15 | He carried on past and found a place to pull off the road , and then he collected together his flashlight and a roll of tools and set off to walk the short distance back . |
| 16 | So they w they came out of this working man 's club on top of this hill pulled out the whole thing and all the balls rolled out . |
| 17 | He drew his sword and scrabbled behind his back to pull out the dirk . |
| 18 | Mathers twisted his head to pull off the bite he 'd taken ; he chewed for a while . |
| 19 | As the train pulled out the senior conductor came round . |
| 20 | Then less than a mile out of Cartier , eh ? , our saboteur pulls up the rod that undoes the coupling . |
| 21 | It is long and deep , the flesh pulled off the meat . |
| 22 | The woman pulled back the flap of the tent and Tallis , dying , saw a pale sun in the fields of snow . |
| 23 | She sounded half alarmed , half excited , and within seconds Tom was beside the bed pulling back the sheets . |
| 24 | The young man pulled forward the chair he had been sitting on and lifted one leg up on it . |
| 25 | However , a southbound freight would often be heard departing from Staveley perhaps ten minutes before the signal man pulled off the concrete post LNER signal . |
| 26 | Years later when The Great Bastard pulled down the monasteries and emptied the convents I took Johanna into my own home . |
| 27 | A 20-cent man pulls off the tail , a 22½-cent man pounds off another part where good leather is not found , and the knife of the 40-cent man cuts a different texture and has a different ‘ feel ’ from that of the 50-cent man . |
| 28 | In the action c , f the Verona piano , the escapement lever pulls down the hammer beak while the hammer pivot remains stationary . |
| 29 | Once detection occurs , however , the effect of the zoning pulls up the overall performance in terms of duration of application and water used , both of which are almost half the 29th edition values . |
| 30 | The headmaster pulled back the top right-hand drawer and |