Example sentences of "[noun] pull back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink . |
| 2 | In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink . |
| 3 | Bigwig 's eyes were closed and his lips pulled back from the long front teeth in a fixed snarl . |
| 4 | Frankie pulled back against the hand that gripped him . |
| 5 | When he was only forty feet from the Ilyushin , with his right wing now pointing straight up , its tip just a few feet from the airliner 's belly , Duncan pulled back on the left engine and then let the drag pull the plane level . |
| 6 | Mrs Sanderson was a slender woman with pepper-and-salt hair pulled back into an old-fashioned bun . |
| 7 | With his long face and straw-coloured hair pulled back in a half-hearted ponytail , he reminded me of a youthful Donald Sutherland ; the same doomy seriousness suddenly lightened by a wry humour . |
| 8 | He was in his late twenties , thick-set , dressed in jeans , with his long hair pulled back in a pony-tail . |
| 9 | The whole gave her a rather leggy , tomboyish look , especially with her long blonde hair pulled back in a fashionable plait . |
| 10 | ‘ The night before the protest rally Mr Baker pulled back on the destruction order he 'd originally announced , ’ Kevin explained . |
| 11 | As Bosnia pulls back from the brink of peace , we look at why the Bosnian Serbs rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan , at what the West might do next , and at the possibility now raised of a wider Balkan war |
| 12 | A front leg-stretching exercise : from a walking stance throw up the leg , keeping the knee joint locked and toes pulled back into a high position . |
| 13 | BR said the ballot showed there were real reservations among rail staff over taking industrial action and urged the union to pull back from a strike . |
| 14 | Plans had been put in hand as early as 1978 ( the so-called ‘ Ridley plan ’ : Young , 1990 , pp. 358–60 ) to tackle the miners in a later confrontation on terms favourable to the government ; indeed , because the conditions were not felt to be ripe , the government pulled back from an earlier potential confrontation in 1981 , and allowed a large pay settlement for the NUM ( Young , 1990 ) . |
| 15 | The trio use the bank at the side of the steps , the wheelchair tips , its passenger leaning forward , voices break the silence suddenly , laughter as the man pulls back on the handles , displaying his strength to the hunchback . |
| 16 | As the camera pulled back on the last shot and credits were shown on the screen , the tension in the studio relaxed , replaced by an exultant mood . |
| 17 | On the last day of term the school assembled in the large upstairs room which had the screens pulled back for the occasion . |
| 18 | The glider dived almost vertically and I was just in time to pull back on the stick so that we hit the ground in a level attitude without any damage . |
| 19 | Twenty minutes later Luke pulled back on the reins as they reached the crossroads . |