Example sentences of "[noun] pulled up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after passing Pylon Three , Rare Bear pulled up off the race course smoking badly , saying ‘ Go Tiger , Go ! ’ |
| 2 | Stacey nodded enthusiastically , then they all turned as a minibus pulled up at the main entrance . |
| 3 | He saluted a little man in tight trousers and a yachting cap , standing by a boat pulled up on the bank . |
| 4 | The Sheikh 's car pulled up outside the hotel where his meeting was to take place . |
| 5 | ‘ Down ! ’ he commanded as the first police car pulled up outside the Kurhotel entrance , its lights illuminating the car-park . |
| 6 | The car pulled up outside the house , and they walked to the door , still holding hands like a couple of children . |
| 7 | The car pulled up opposite the Tsar Cannon , one of the largest cannons ever made . |
| 8 | A car pulled up behind the Land Rover and disgorged Gareth and then Tremayne who moved like a tank across the earthy verge and rocked to a halt a yard away . |
| 9 | But before she could dwell on it a vehicle pulled up at the office door . |
| 10 | Rodney pulled up outside the cottage . |
| 11 | They were standing there , eating crisps , their minds blank , when suddenly a smart green mini pulled up at the steps before them . |
| 12 | Werewolf pulled up near the Barbican and said he would walk to Sorrel 's flat . |
| 13 | Boats pulled up for the deceptive winter , the restless thud of the sea beyond the outer wall threatening to break into their sanctuary . |
| 14 | The cab pulled up alongside the destination . |
| 15 | The lorry pulled up beside the pile of sacks and the driver went into the office . |
| 16 | Their taxi pulled up outside The Anabaptist Reform Church and Felix Henderson McMurdo climbed out . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was the ‘ small ’ things at Uppark that Meg saved and cherished that made it what it so uniquely was — the chair covers , the blankets Prinny pulled up to the portly royal chin , the original wallpapers in the attics where this quiet , remarkable woman worked to such effect . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | By the time the taxi driver pulled up outside the very normal house in the very normal street in one of the suburbs of Nice she had pretty much convinced herself that she was slowly going insane . |
| 21 | As though by an immaculately timed piece of theatre , the driver pulled up opposite the front entrance to New Scotland Yard . |
| 22 | Jenna pulled up in the small courtyard and sat for a moment looking at it . |
| 23 | ‘ Here we are , ’ announced David as the bus pulled up outside the cathedral . |
| 24 | Nearly 200 vehicles pulled up at the roadside on the A38 just south of Gloucester . |
| 25 | As Gerry and his fellow villagers talked of the better days to come , a carload of American tourists pulled up in the street beside him and asked for directions to ‘ Dannygal ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The silence lasted until the Porsche pulled up outside the converted house that contained her tiny flat . |
| 28 | His Dad pulled up by the fence and wound his window down . |
| 29 | The slightly over-sized holes you mention are no problem ; this is simply where the strung ball-ends pulled up through the table as the bridge came off . |
| 30 | Only when the mustard-coloured decorator 's van pulled up outside the wrought-iron gates of Ali Christie 's house in Harrow-on-the-Hill had Shamlou 's heart slowed its thudding beat . |