Example sentences of "pull him [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’
2 I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't .
3 The prize , however , was taken by the Lithuanian who decided to liven up Roger Payne 's ascent of Comes The Dervish by trying to pull him off the crux .
4 The tentacle started to pull him across the floor .
5 It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck .
6 Kafy slipped her hand under his kilt and closed it round his penis , smiling , pulling him into the room by it .
7 Then they jumped on him , pulling him down the steps .
8 The Doctor ran for cover , grabbing the poet 's sleeve and pulling him to the side .
9 Then the rope tightened around his body , and he felt something pulling him beneath the surface .
10 Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance .
11 ‘ We 're not playing , Connelly , ’ Farrell told him and pulled him across the hot and clammy room .
12 She caught hold of him by the hand and half ran , half pulled him across the room to the door .
13 He bent to pick them up and I pulled him into the alley and smashed him up against the wall .
14 They reached out and pulled him into the Ship .
15 Soon , however , we discovered Magwitch in the water , badly injured , and pulled him into the boat .
16 Then one of the men gave a shout , seized the boy by a leg and pulled him into the hall .
17 She prised her husband 's fingers from the edge of the door and pulled him into the hall .
18 He almost pulled him into the room , closing the door behind them .
19 and pulled him into the machine and made a right mess of his arm .
20 The shapechanger grabbed Chopra 's hair and pulled him off the ground .
21 Isobel stared at him , then laughed , drew her arm through his and pulled him towards the door .
22 She held out a hand and , when he took it , heaved him upright and pulled him towards the bedroom .
23 He wedged his clothes into a gap between boulders above the waterline , then grabbed Carey 's feet and pulled him towards the edge .
24 He was immediately joined by Louise who pulled him towards the marquee .
25 The passengers pulled him onto the rock .
26 Pushing himself from the wall he grabbed Tommy 's jacket and pulled him along the road .
27 Firemen who pulled him from the inferno looked on anxiously as off-duty technician James McDonald tried to revive him .
28 Hurriedly she took a fresh grip on Adam and pulled him round the side of a broken column , out of sight .
29 Because of his language ability , Heydrich himself had pulled him into the Sicherheitsdienst , the SS security service , known as the SD .
30 Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it .
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