Example sentences of "he [vb past] pull [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 2 | He tried to pull himself forward , branch to branch , but with his hands bound , he lost ground each time he grabbed for a fresh hold . |
| 3 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 4 | He tried to pull himself together , but it was impossible . |
| 5 | He was only a boy , hardly out of drama school and scared stiff and , by the time he 'd pulled himself together and gone back to do the right thing by her , the girl had disappeared . |
| 6 | I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning . |
| 7 | Then he started to pull himself together , returned to Hollywood and stayed sober — except for Sundays , when he would lock himself away and drink like a fish . |
| 8 | One spike went right through him but he managed to pull himself off . |
| 9 | The action caused his kiss to deepen until suddenly , with what she sensed to be an effort of will , he appeared to pull himself together . |
| 10 | It took a few seconds before she realised that he had pulled himself away from her . |
| 11 | But he had pulled himself out , leaving his shoes behind . |
| 12 | He had to pull himself up with help from other divers who pulled his umbilical , and anything else they could get hold of . |
| 13 | ‘ She 'll grow up with rickets like the rest of 'em , ’ she said , rubbing Patrick 's thin legs which failed to support him when he attempted to pull himself up against his father 's chair . |