Example sentences of "pulled [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horsemen of Ellyrion were pulled down by the foul beasts of Chaos . |
| 2 | ‘ Arrange for Kirov to be pulled in by the KGB . |
| 3 | Hood : a generous hood which unfortunately bunched up when pulled in by the drawcord . |
| 4 | Some are pulled in by the package-holiday attractions of Ayia Marina , the island 's miniature experiment in Costa Bravado . |
| 5 | Pulled in by the cops , having to rescue a naked vicar and now it looked as if I was going to have to talk down a paranoid lesbian . |
| 6 | The roads are bumpy and uncertain and when they do get on a half decent stretch , they get pulled over by the police : they 're not supposed to be on it . |
| 7 | They were pulled up by the bell . |
| 8 | ‘ Worst of all , being pulled up by the roots — worse for me than for j[ack] ; for Leeborough has always been my base whereas his real home has been Hillsboro [ Mrs Moore 's rented house in Headington , Oxford ] far some years now . |
| 9 | Who are you , you 're not the Queen ’ , and I used to sit down , get pulled up by the girls : ‘ Come on . ’ |
| 10 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 11 | A car had pulled up by the gate . |
| 12 | But one grey-haired uplander disappeared into a hole below a boulder and was pulled out by the hair and carried back towards Keltney on a stretcher of cut branches . |
| 13 | The pillar of gas and sand was pulled out by the wind , darkening the sand under its shadow and forming a curtain of haze under its base like you see under a heavy cloud sometimes as it starts to get rid of its rain . |
| 14 | She overshot the glove and was pulled back by the creance . |
| 15 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 16 | Three particular ‘ Snoddyisms ’ stand out : ( 1 ) Roy Allen was blatantly pulled back by the arm inside the penalty area as he ran to meet a corner — ‘ play on ’ was the decision . |