Example sentences of "[adv] pull out of the " in BNC.

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1 Across the road a large grey car suddenly pulled out of the Downshurst-bound traffic and stopped on the grass verge beyond the estate-car and the police busy with tape-measures and notebooks .
2 The target of two-thirds of average earnings was literally pulled out of the air , in order to show how low the pay rates were in Wage Council industries .
3 They are making many staff redundant , and they are largely pulling out of the programme , thus leaving a huge hole in numbers and finance .
4 More than 5,000 Swindon fans have signed a petition calling on the sports governing body to return the club to the first flight , replacing another side which has already pulled out of the league .
5 Last night TCCB officials gave a cautious welcome to the Kiwi offer , spokesman Ken Lawrence saying : ‘ At the moment we have not even thought of going elsewhere because we have not pulled out of the Indian tour .
6 SQUASH : World No 1 Jahangir Khan yesterday pulled out of the Leekes Welsh Classic squash tournament because of a pulled back muscle .
7 Rijkaard and Van Basten had travelled to Holland but Milan did not want them to play and both pulled out of the squad , Rijkaard with flu , Van Basten claiming he was tired after his trip to Tokyo for the World Club Championship .
8 Manchester United 's Ryan Giggs is also included , despite being controversially pulled out of the Cyprus game by manager Alex Ferguson .
9 ‘ He put me on the spot and eventually pulled out of the deal as much as I did .
10 Yet the figure she eventually pulls out of the hat is not one likely to be recognised by many who came into contact with Freya Stark .
11 The man stood thoughtfully on the platform as the train slowly pulled out of the station .
12 It is anticipated that with the Lord Mayor on board ‘ Lord Mayor ’ will be ceremonially pulled out of the Museum building by the winning team of a ‘ Sponsored Pull ’ to be held at the Ingrow Railway Centre a fortnight prior to this opening .
13 Such is the tensile strength of individual laminations that some are seen to have been partially pulled out of the core during piston coring or by the wire during core splitting .
14 Leaks at compression joints ( page 23 ) can usually be cured by tightening the nuts ( make sure the pipe has n't pulled out of the sealing ring ) ; curing a leak in soldered capillary joints and solvent-welded joints in plastic pipes is more difficult and usually involves draining and remaking the joint ( pages 22 and 28 ) .
15 Provided America does n't pull out of the alliance completely , that ought to give us all some protection . ’
16 Gooch has been unwell for several weeks , playing in the first Test at Calcutta with a chest infection that should have ruled him out , missing the three-day match at Vishakhapatnam because he still felt weak , and then pulling out of the second Test at Madras after his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn .
17 The rough had ended the hopes of many an illustrious name : defending champion Sandy Lyle , Tom Watson , who , like Ballesteros had complained about the narrow fairways and deep dune grass fringing them , and Craig Stadler , who shot an 82 and then pulled out of the tournament with a sprained wrist .
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