Example sentences of "pulls [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulls down the boxer shorts last and kisses the erection lying twitching on Iain 's stomach . |
| 2 | He pulls down the jeans , being careful not to pull the bag off , and he discards these as well . |
| 3 | In the action c , f the Verona piano , the escapement lever pulls down the hammer beak while the hammer pivot remains stationary . |
| 4 | HARLEM NIGHTS Eddie Murphy 's movie with Richard Pryor pulls off the almost impossible : it shows two very funny men for nearly 1 ½ ; hours without raising a laugh . |
| 5 | A 20-cent man pulls off the tail , a 22½-cent man pounds off another part where good leather is not found , and the knife of the 40-cent man cuts a different texture and has a different ‘ feel ’ from that of the 50-cent man . |
| 6 | Part road movie , part love story and part social commentary , Autobus pulls off the difficult trick of making a simple tale resonate with complex themes and emotions |
| 7 | When Escalus cross-examines him , this is done in prose , as befits his true status ( 260ff. ) , and when Angelo invites Lucio to state what he can witness against the Friar-Duke , the medium drops to prose for all four speakers ( 327–33 ) , to be catapulted back to verse as Lucio pulls off the hood and reveals the Duke 's identity . |
| 8 | She pulls off the shirt and jeans , goes to the sink , and slaps cold water over her face and shoulders . |
| 9 | Then less than a mile out of Cartier , eh ? , our saboteur pulls up the rod that undoes the coupling . |
| 10 | Pulls up the hairs |
| 11 | The second problem with knitting too many rows of tuck is that if a needle is n't knitting ( and , when tucking , it is n't ) it pulls up the knitting on the needles either side of it and can prevent them knitting off correctly . |
| 12 | Once detection occurs , however , the effect of the zoning pulls up the overall performance in terms of duration of application and water used , both of which are almost half the 29th edition values . |
| 13 | He goes in , he trips the toggle , the toggle jiggers the trapeze , the trapeze lets go the springy pole , it whips back , it pulls up the door to the basket … the big fish is the prisoner now . |
| 14 | The pectoralis minor muscle contracts and its tendon , the foramen triosseum , passing through pulls up the wing . |
| 15 | No cos it pulls up the name and address . |
| 16 | She goes to the window , treating the rugs spread on the sanded and waxed pine floorboards as stepping-stones , pulls back the curtain , and peers out . |
| 17 | Therefore it is true to say that , when a person stiffens the neck muscles and pulls back the head , not only is the body 's natural coordination being obstructed but it is also being prevented from returning to its natural state of ease and equilibrium . |
| 18 | 8 The defender pulls back the fist ready for a second strike , should it be necessary . |
| 19 | Someone gets strangled in the wire and pulls out the plug . |
| 20 | The cockpit is then propelled by a large rocket and almost immediately stabilised by a small drogue , or parachute , which then pulls out the main chute , said Mr Brian Miller , of Martin Baker , the leading name in ejection seat invention and manufacture . |
| 21 | She opens her Gladstone bag , pulls out the folder containing her notes , and settles to work . |
| 22 | The launcher shoots out the pilot kite , which opens , catches the wind , and pulls out the main kite . |
| 23 | The world 's most gifted player , never afraid to speak his mind , added : ‘ When you are world champions , everyone pulls out the stops , everyone wants to beat you . |
| 24 | He gets up , pulls out the ‘ Passion Sources ’ CD and pops it into his ghetto blaster . |
| 25 | The chimpanzee then pulls out the grass stem and picks off the termites with its teeth , smacking its lips with pleasure . |
| 26 | In terms of presentation , Quattro Pro really pulls out the stops . |
| 27 | She pulls out the plug , and the water drains , so Miranda can not swim any more , and lies there , feeling the water suck away from her . |
| 28 | He curses them , as young men do — but not young ladies — he pulls out the arrow roughly , then leaves the creature there where it lay down and died . |