Example sentences of "pulled [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young pulled right the way across and the traffic lights were obviously red . |
| 2 | Years later when The Great Bastard pulled down the monasteries and emptied the convents I took Johanna into my own home . |
| 3 | He pulled down the wires that had let Jekub taste the electricity . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm all stiff and sore , ’ Lucy said , and then pulled down the shoulder of the oversized Blues Brothers T-shirt that she 'd bought for sleeping in . |
| 5 | But I did discover where they had been coming in — through the stable and into the wall — and where they had resided when I pulled down the ceiling lathes in the dairy and a load of old nests and rat droppings fell on to my head . |
| 6 | He carefully pulled down the bottom of her tracksuit and cut off her panties . |
| 7 | The day nurse pulled down the cream window blinds against the morning sun as Miranda entered . |
| 8 | Nan had just gone and Agnes had bolted the door , pulled down the blind over the window . |
| 9 | He pulled down the blankets and fumbled for his matches . |
| 10 | Then he pulled down the sheet , which was all the bedclothes she had needed on that warm night , and she lay naked before him . |
| 11 | She gathered her straggly hair into a bun at the back of her head , holding it with her left hand while she pulled down the polo neck of her thin jumper . |
| 12 | Gloria closed the sliding door , pulled down the blinds , and switched off the six lamps which Dot had just put on . |
| 13 | Then he went to the front of the shop and pulled down the blinds . |
| 14 | When they was all out at work on Monday , I could stand it no longer , I pulled down the loft ladder and dragged meself up it , plaster and all . |
| 15 | Then he pulled down the oven door , smelt the sweet , fatty smell of the meat and knew that it was probably this very fact that accounted for his decision to go through with the business . |
| 16 | He pulled down the people on both sides of him . |
| 17 | A group of people was being alternately shoved and pulled down the roadway , the shafts of Sellsword spears hastening them on their way . |
| 18 | Donna had managed to disguise the worst of the bruising on her top lip beneath some foundation cream and a little rouge had given at least some artificial colour to her cheeks , but as she pulled down the sun-visor on the driver 's side and peered into the mirror she realized she looked as tired as she felt . |
| 19 | In 1070 , Fulk le Réchin , not content with disinheritance , pulled down the castle of Tréves , and blinded Hardouin , its lord . |
| 20 | When he bolted the door , pulled down the shutter , put the chairs on the tables , emptied the till and swept the floor he was able to walk through to the back , climb the stairs , sprawl into a big armchair and look at his collection of pictures , news cuttings , fan club items , record sleeves and signed photographs of Shirley Temple . |
| 21 | ‘ A Review of Customer Satisfaction at ICI Chemicals & Polymers Limited , ’ an MBA dissertation written by Andrew John Fortune and sponsored by C&P , pulled together the results of that 1986 and subsequent surveys carried out for C&P and other parts of ICI . |
| 22 | As soon as the ambulance pulled away the reporter made his way over to Jack . |
| 23 | As it pulled away the Empress called out to her son ‘ Louis ! |
| 24 | Then he climbed down , and pulled away the chair . |
| 25 | She pulled off the gown , kicked off the matching shoes , and dragged on the outfit she found most comfortable for working in the studio , a pair of worn denims and a baggy cotton T-shirt with ‘ I LOVE NEW YORK ’ printed on it . |
| 26 | She pulled off the scarf that she had been wearing round her head to protect her ears and prevent her hair getting into her eyes and mouth . |
| 27 | I drove north into Georgia and pulled off the road into Brunswick . |
| 28 | Half an hour after leaving camp , I saw the same lorry , pulled off the road beside a derelict shack . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He drove a few miles out of the village and then pulled off the road to wait for dusk . |