Example sentences of "pull [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They laughed so hard that Nathan had to pull off the road . |
| 2 | Pam Tatlow believes she too has nursed the constituency , but she 'll have to pull off the shock of the night to win . |
| 3 | And there is the nagging doubt that weaknesses in the financial system will hamper the real economy 's ability to pull through the hard days now at hand . |
| 4 | The paramount feature of pentatonic scales is the absence of semitones : This absence of semitones has two effects : there is no leading note to pull towards the tonic ; and no fourth degree note to gravitate down to the third . |
| 5 | Alternatives to custody are more likely to pull into the system , new populations rather than reduce incarcerated ones . |
| 6 | An article in a national magazine by Jack London on ‘ The Royal Sport ’ inspired him to devise a publicity stunt to pull in the crowds . |
| 7 | General torso : Pull the shoulders back , bringing shoulder blades together , push the chest forward and out and , at the same time , use appropriate muscles to pull in the stomach , making a hollow in that part of your body . |
| 8 | Which is not to say that old-fashioned , blue-chip brands do not continue to pull in the plaudits . |
| 9 | I want to pull in the anchor with you and save the whale with you and bear a big child with you and live with you and know that we will never die . |
| 10 | Kartoffel had felt the team needed a touch of glamour — someone to pull in the big bucks and wow the cameras across the Reich . |
| 11 | The big show-piece cinemas were built to pull in the fashionable trade but they were not designed for the exclusive use of a social elite ; rather they were provided for all those groups who were prepared to pay money for the movie entertainment that was being provided as part of the delights offered by the down-town city . |
| 12 | Comedies continued to pull in the biggest audiences , followed by thrillers and adventure films . |
| 13 | They were both , after all , in show-business of a kind , both presiding over a declining form of entertainment , both desperately concerned to pull in the customers . |
| 14 | The closest analogy I can think of is that it is very much like fishing , you never know what you are going to catch , you have to pull in the small ones when you are hoping for the big one , but occasionally a big one comes along when you least expect it . |
| 15 | Now to start sailing closer towards the wind , we need to pull in the mainsheet , pop the daggerboard down and then turn the boat gently towards the wind , we reach the point where even with the sail sheeted in tightly , the front edge , the luff of the sail is still flapping , that 's as close to the wind as we can get and so we maintain a course to keep the sail full . |
| 16 | The organiser of a country show which failed to pull in the crowds says he 'll be holding a full enquiry into what went wrong . |
| 17 | After more than three years at the Manor , he had managed to pull round the farms and get the timber business running smoothly . |
| 18 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 19 | He had no chance to pull to the side of anything . |
| 20 | However , even when the dinner was over , their ‘ guests ’ showed no sign of leaving , at which point the Emperor began to pull on the ends of his moustache — one of the few signs of irritation he ever allowed himself . |
| 21 | The idea of this is for all the people to pull on the rope as hard as possible . |
| 22 | ‘ I could n't close my fingers to pull on the water after an hour . ’ |
| 23 | Novices often like to hold the rope above them as a handrail , but in a slip their instinctive reaction will be to pull on the rope , giving a dangerous jerk on the leader . |
| 24 | In the initial stages the puppy is likely to pull on the leash by trying to rush ahead . |
| 25 | ‘ Gravity knew how much harder it had to pull on the keys — to make them hit the ground at the same time as the paper . |
| 26 | The force knows exactly how much harder it has to pull on the big one to keep it going in the same circle . |
| 27 | Well to keep his rope tight , I had to pull on the other , and the other chap would jerk me back . |
| 28 | She had begun to pull on the long suede gloves which she had earlier stripped from her beautiful hands . |
| 29 | Pausing only to pull on the lightweight wrap that lay across the foot of the bunk , she grasped the torch more firmly and peered cautiously around the curtain . |
| 30 | Miguel slipped off his casual shoes and began to pull on the black cuban-heeled boots he picked up from the floor . |