Example sentences of "pinned [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pahdra Singh mounted the pavement in his Bentley this morning and pinned me to the window of the Wimpy Bar . |
| 2 | Angry Brian Reatus , 44 , allegedly foamed at the mouth as he pinned him to the wall . |
| 3 | He clawed at the broken wheel that first dragged him across , then pinned him to the road . |
| 4 | Reeling from the onslaught , he toppled forward but managed to keep his feet until a second attack pinned him to the wall and held him there . |
| 5 | He struggled even more when four men pounced upon him and pinned him to the ground , but his frantic movements were more an attempt to breathe than to escape . |
| 6 | TINY tot Stuart McKane is lucky to be alive today after a kitchen oven fell and pinned him to the floor . |
| 7 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 8 | and this guy got him by the throat and pinned him to the wall and said Billy shut up ! |
| 9 | I did n't want her to give herself over to the view of life that underlay all this , the philosophy that pinned her to the shadow-corners of the world . |
| 10 | On the morning of 9 November , Sydney sighted Emden and pinned her to the shore of Keeling Island , one of the Cocos group , on which a German party had been landed to destroy essential cable and wireless installations connecting Australian , African and Indian telegraph systems . |
| 11 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
| 12 | Terrified that it would try to escape or fly away , and not wanting to risk the Corporal 's anger , I pinned it to the ground by leaning a large stone against it . |
| 13 | For a long time he held the photograph , fingering it gently , careful not to mark it , and then he pinned it to the cork-board on the wall . |