Example sentences of "pulled up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while they pulled up outside a large concrete hotel , not quite finished , incorporating a long cruelly-lit restaurant , almost empty , which faced the road . |
| 2 | The blue van , driven by Latowa , pulled up outside a tall , ramshackle house , long ago turned into bedsitters . |
| 3 | To her surprise a few minutes later the taxi pulled up outside a fashion shop in one of the main city streets as the driver indicated she had reached her destination . |
| 4 | It took a little under an hour , and when , at his instruction , she pulled up outside a small , dark cottage she thought she felt sick . |
| 5 | She pulled up outside a large Victorian house , collected her case , and walked smilingly up the steps to the front door . |
| 6 | A short while later she pulled up outside a hotel in the thousand-year-old city of Bamberg . |
| 7 | But after the interval the striker pulled up with a hamstring strain , signalled to the bench to come off — and then gave the ball away and set up Stuttgart 's vital opening goal . |
| 8 | She wandered , hands in jeans , hair pulled up into a workmanlike topknot , and simply enjoyed the rough , uncultivated feel of the land . |
| 9 | The vehicles were fired upon by two men in civilian clothes as they pulled up to a T-junction . |
| 10 | The snow buggy pulled up alongside a closed elevator door . |
| 11 | While they were with him , the rest of the band pulled up in a van outside . |
| 12 | She pulled up in a fair-sized stableyard attached to a farm which appeared to be miles from anywhere . |
| 13 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
| 14 | As they descended the steps , a battered car turned into the drive and pulled up in a corner of the small courtyard . |
| 15 | The fire brigade van pulled up in a flurry of flashing lights and the crew were there immediately assessing the job . |
| 16 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |