Example sentences of "pulled [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulled in at a motorway service station and decided on lunch . |
| 2 | I saw Sybil on ‘ Top of the Pops ’ the day before I started work on the book and she was wearing a gold bra top , huge fake-gold earrings and black trousers pulled in at the waist . |
| 3 | Quite suddenly Tweed pulled in at the kerb before they reached the hotel . |
| 4 | As I pulled in at the ambulance building , the switchboard had just received a message that a dead body had been found in Cathedral Road . |
| 5 | Eventually the Corporal gave me a cigarette , and in due course we pulled over at a roadside cafe to have a cup of coffee and to stretch our legs . |
| 6 | He pulled up at the bridge and got out to show me the concrete cancer . |
| 7 | So saying , she pulled up at the gateway of a two-storey farmhouse used as the holiday and weekend home of her friends Mr and Mrs Clay . |
| 8 | We pulled up at the end of the schooling stretch and trotted back to where Tremayne stood with his binoculars . |
| 9 | The tram whined and sparked as it pulled up at the fare stage near the Dennistoun Palais and Whitehill Street . |
| 10 | ‘ Right , constable , you can report in now , ’ Bragg said , as they pulled up at the end of Bartholomew Close . |
| 11 | They were standing there , eating crisps , their minds blank , when suddenly a smart green mini pulled up at the steps before them . |
| 12 | They pulled up at the end of the gallop . |
| 13 | An hour and a half later a police wagon pulled up at the dock , and out from the back climbed a bleary-eyed Howard escorted by two gendarmes . |
| 14 | Carrie stood behind the counter of the dining rooms with her fair hair pulled up at the back of her head and held in place with a pair of large bone combs . |
| 15 | Laidlaw drove past it and pulled up at the end of the dirt road . |
| 16 | The conveyance came around the corner , quite recklessly , and pulled up at the sight of him . |
| 17 | They overtook him when he was n't expecting it ; they pulled up at the side of the road and trapped him behind them ; they got in front of him at traffic-lights and then decided to turn right . |
| 18 | Con Fenton 's cottage was less than half a mile away and on my way back to the surgery , on an impulse I pulled up at the door . |
| 19 | As we pulled up at the lights , he leaped out , kicked the wheel cap back into place , grinned and said , ‘ Thanks , it happens about every two years or so , ’ got back in his car , then signalled equally wildly for me to wind down my window . |
| 20 | He pulled up at the farm and got out to open the door for her before she could move . |
| 21 | But before she could dwell on it a vehicle pulled up at the office door . |
| 22 | He pulled up at the pumps and the attendant , a young black wearing green coveralls and cap bearing the petrol company 's logo , approached and leaned down to the open window . |
| 23 | Half an hour before the match started two tractors pulled up at the swing bridge , the drivers got out and had a short discussion and proceeded to plough up the field opposite my peg . |
| 24 | A small brown dog scurried out of the undergrowth , pulled up at the sight of another human , then rushed towards her . |
| 25 | I 'd just finished filling the hip flask when it went dark in the bar as a truck pulled up at the traffic lights outside . |
| 26 | Stacey nodded enthusiastically , then they all turned as a minibus pulled up at the main entrance . |
| 27 | Nearly 200 vehicles pulled up at the roadside on the A38 just south of Gloucester . |
| 28 | They pulled out at a point not where the cost they thought was n't worth it , but they pulled out because people associate |
| 29 | Mrs McIntosh , she knew , had had a young man who pulled out at the last minute ; she might take him in . |
| 30 | In the event Lin and Chiang pulled out at the last moment , prompting speculation that Lee had made a deal with the conservatives over the reform programme or over Cabinet posts . |