Example sentences of "pulled out a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulled out a file from a drawer in her desk , took out a fresh form and began to fill it in . |
| 2 | The agent pulled out a gun and shot him dead . |
| 3 | So she pulled out a rolled up tenner and a small packet . |
| 4 | Here it is , he said and pulled out a bottle of foul-looking medicine that could well have been the very stuff that Dr Jekyll used to turn himself into Mr Hyde . |
| 5 | Herr Nordern pulled out a cigar . |
| 6 | Unfortunately his foot was in it at the time and I slammed it , at which point he pulled out a badge and said he was a cop . |
| 7 | He reached in carefully and pulled out a handful of letters . |
| 8 | Marie sighed and pulled out a dining-chair from under the table . |
| 9 | Mungo felt in his pocket and pulled out a hammer with ‘ A. Zamoyski ’ burnt into the handle with a poker . |
| 10 | Stanley pulled out a chair and sat down . |
| 11 | Another day he was sent from Washington to a Chinese vegetable stand on the Lower West Side in Manhattan , where he was told to ask for a person with the code name ‘ Mooey ’ ; Mooey went behind the counter , rolled up his trouser-leg and pulled out a wad of hundred-dollar bills , which Owen thought ‘ I had better count anyways . ’ |
| 12 | I gathered from Doone 's face that it was n't the type of answer he 'd expected , but he pulled out a notebook and wrote down the reply as given , checking that he 'd got it right . |
| 13 | She opened the bag , dipped in a hand and pulled out a slip of paper . |
| 14 | Svend pulled out a chair for his visitor . |
| 15 | They watched , thrilled and a little scared , as he levered it up , and from the darkness within pulled out a tin box . |
| 16 | She pulled out a squat leather-bound volume and blew the dust off the top . |
| 17 | He groped in a pocket and pulled out a now useless packet of cigarettes . |
| 18 | Howard reached inside his brown leather jacket and pulled out a note-pad and pencil . |
| 19 | One of the crew pulled out a Colt .45 and shot the beast through the head to put it out of its misery and a group of local Indians gleefully pulled out their knives and instantly began butchering the stallion for its meat . |
| 20 | He pulled out a folded check golfing cap from his pocket and rammed it low over his forehead . |
| 21 | He pulled out a folded sheet of paper from his inside pocket . |
| 22 | He pulled out a correspondence file between a landlord and tenant in Ruislip — nearly eighty pages devoted to conflict over responsibility for a dustbin area — and tried to concentrate . |
| 23 | Unbuttoning her pocket , she pulled out a packet of fruit-gums . |
| 24 | The Feldwebel took it into a corner and pulled out a large envelope which he threw onto the table . |
| 25 | Thiercelin pocketed the sketch and pulled out a notebook and Conté pencil . |
| 26 | She pulled out a chair and positioned it between Karelius and Moreau , who struggled awkwardly to their feet to assist her . |
| 27 | Nigger pulled out a wad of notes large enough to choke a horse , gave Knocker a pound note , and told him to keep the change . |
| 28 | He liked the straw mattress and pulled out a small leather pouch which Corbett recognised as being in common use by clerks in the Chancery or envoys on their travels . |
| 29 | Hannah smiled , pulled out a stool ( which had seen better days ) and began to play . |
| 30 | At that point Kalchu stood up , rummaged round behind the rafters and , after a while , pulled out a dusty horn which he handed me . |