Example sentences of "[vb mod] pull [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not say that we should pull up the anchor and take the United Kingdom somewhere else . |
| 2 | Similarly , the motorist who discovers that he should pull out the choke button a particular amount so as to get the car to start on a cold morning is also an empiricist . |
| 3 | He asked the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff if he should pull out the Ariadne which they knew , of course , was sitting over the crashed plane . |
| 4 | ‘ Sometimes I 'll pull out the pink Strat in the studio . |
| 5 | I 'll pull back the curtains so you can have some company . ’ |
| 6 | I feel I could pull off the cruelly applied latex prosthetics and find there one of those untroubled faces from the frontispiece of Country Life or Tatler . |
| 7 | We were approaching the Rover works at Cowley when Michael declared that he felt as if he could pull back the steering column and take off . |
| 8 | I managed to wriggle my hands out of the tape so I could pull down the gag , poke my head out of the sack and breathe more freely . |
| 9 | For a Royal tour she always used to pull out the stops and literally shop until she dropped for the occasion . |
| 10 | The woman would pull up the sheet to her neck . |
| 11 | A wider use of existing methods of contraception among non-users — and a reduction in the use of the IUD , which has a high failure rate — would pull down the abortion rate 46 per cent . |
| 12 | The western sun would scorch and dazzle and we would pull down the blinds in the compartment . |
| 13 | If left sitting on a chair she would pick at the cloth cover until she made a little hole and then would pull out the threads and small pieces of the inside padding to eat . |
| 14 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 15 | Wherever we can , whenever tenants want it , and where resources allow , we will pull down the eyesores which have blotted our cityscapes and too often provided breeding grounds for crime and delinquency . |
| 16 | To complete the uniformity of the pile , one of the wheels is fitted with an electric motor which when activated manually will pull back the elevator from the heap in increments down to 25mm ( 1in ) . |
| 17 | Still , if he can manipulate his Chief Whip like Indiana manipulated his bull whip maybe today he will pull off the kind of last-minute , knife-edge victory the film hero always managed . |
| 18 | To upgrade to multiple CPUs and new , faster microprocessors including the 50MHz SuperSparc when it is available in volume , users can pull out the Sparc module and replace it with a new one . |
| 19 | Erm one at the moment , but I can pull out the radio without any problem . |
| 20 | Maybe about 1,000–1 , ’ said the only man who can pull off the improbable four-timer this year . |