Example sentences of "[pers pn] pulled [adv] at the " in BNC.
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1 | Con Fenton 's cottage was less than half a mile away and on my way back to the surgery , on an impulse I pulled up at the door . |
2 | As I pulled in at the ambulance building , the switchboard had just received a message that a dead body had been found in Cathedral Road . |
3 | So saying , she pulled up at the gateway of a two-storey farmhouse used as the holiday and weekend home of her friends Mr and Mrs Clay . |
4 | We pulled up at the end of the schooling stretch and trotted back to where Tremayne stood with his binoculars . |
5 | As we pulled up at the lights , he leaped out , kicked the wheel cap back into place , grinned and said , ‘ Thanks , it happens about every two years or so , ’ got back in his car , then signalled equally wildly for me to wind down my window . |
6 | ‘ Right , constable , you can report in now , ’ Bragg said , as they pulled up at the end of Bartholomew Close . |
7 | They pulled up at the end of the gallop . |
8 | They overtook him when he was n't expecting it ; they pulled up at the side of the road and trapped him behind them ; they got in front of him at traffic-lights and then decided to turn right . |
9 | They pulled sharply at the strings , then released the kites so that they flew in a succession of angular jerks , higher and higher into the pink evening sky . |
10 | He pulled up at the bridge and got out to show me the concrete cancer . |
11 | He pulled up at the farm and got out to open the door for her before she could move . |
12 | He pulled up at the pumps and the attendant , a young black wearing green coveralls and cap bearing the petrol company 's logo , approached and leaned down to the open window . |
13 | The tram whined and sparked as it pulled up at the fare stage near the Dennistoun Palais and Whitehill Street . |