Example sentences of "pull [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big show-piece cinemas were built to pull in the fashionable trade but they were not designed for the exclusive use of a social elite ; rather they were provided for all those groups who were prepared to pay money for the movie entertainment that was being provided as part of the delights offered by the down-town city . |
| 2 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 3 | She had begun to pull on the long suede gloves which she had earlier stripped from her beautiful hands . |
| 4 | Pausing only to pull on the lightweight wrap that lay across the foot of the bunk , she grasped the torch more firmly and peered cautiously around the curtain . |
| 5 | It had never been so low , and by then virtually the whole of the ( non-Neath ) rest of Welsh rugby was pulling against the national team . |
| 6 | But I was beading up the Dale , climbing steadily with the engine pulling against the rising ground , then quite suddenly the fog thinned to a shimmering silvery mist and was gone . |
| 7 | The patient is moved forward in the chair , and he holds his hands clasped together , to avoid the temptation of pushing himself off his chair , or pulling onto the other chair , which would throw him off balance and increase his spasticity . |
| 8 | Compared to the experience of hearing music ‘ live ’ even under unfavourable circumstances there is often very little sense that the musicians are pulling in the same direction , or that the music ebbs and flows in a natural , organic or above all believable way . |
| 9 | England prop Jeff Probyn revealed : ‘ Nobody in the side is shining so far , but everyone is pulling in the same direction . |
| 10 | Acceleration can only fake gravity when the gravity is the same everywhere — equally strong and pulling in the same direction — like it is in this room , more or less . |
| 11 | All pulling in the same direction , you know . |
| 12 | the team leader at work who is concerned to ensure that members of the group are all pulling in the same direction towards greater productivity or an improved service . |
| 13 | This meant everyone pulling in the same direction , and I was convinced there was a win/win opportunity : for business objectives and for employees . |
| 14 | As I was pulling on the worn satin slippers I thought of the new ones my sister had bought me for her wedding . |
| 15 | Check the colour mark on the bridle line and by slipping the Lark 's Head knot and pulling on the lower line ( 'B' ) bring the mark no more than 6mm ( 1/ 4in ) below the ring . |
| 16 | The tournament doctor may be able to reduce the dislocation by twisting and pulling on the injured limb , but even if he is successful , that is the end of your day 's competition . |
| 17 | Fitzormonde 's hand went to his dagger as the bear danced like a demon , pulling at the great chain clasped in the wall . |
| 18 | She pulled through the clutching shrubbery and skimmed back up the steps , realizing she was leaving footprints of damp earth . |
| 19 | A few moments later he pulled into the gravelled forecourt of a large house . |
| 20 | He pulled into the reserved space beside a red Porsche Carrera , Carmen 's car . |
| 21 | Driver Nicola Jenkins and passenger Mark Bachelor told the Coroner they felt a jerking movement and pulled into the hard shoulder . |
| 22 | Ten minutes after the tail lights of the stolen Cadillac had dwindled to nothingness up the long straight highway , Curtis pulled into the deserted forecourt of the isolated gas station . |
| 23 | He pulled into the pre-arranged space , climbed out of the car , then took a pack of cigarettes from his jacket pocket and lit one . |
| 24 | And then Fael-Inis lifted the silver pipes to his lips , and there was a final burst of music , and the forest and the house and the Ireland of Tara 's Court vanished , and they were pulled into the Far Future . |
| 25 | But suppose there was something that could only be depressed after the first piece had been pulled into the right position ? |
| 26 | A short time later , a car pulled into the underground drive-through that had been set aside for taxis and pick-ups at the mainline rail terminus . |
| 27 | But even as she flung out a hand to save herself she was whisked off her feet and pulled into the secure haven of fitzAlan 's arms . |
| 28 | The third rig , holding Deputy Fenton 's four-man guard detail and their captives , had pulled onto the wide verge ahead of Rocky 's vehicle and was now awaiting more prisoners to fill its spacious interior , if all went according to plan . |
| 29 | The case quite clearly pulls upon the same set of socially constructed fears that Hall and his colleagues analyse as the creation of the black mugger in Policing the Crisis . |
| 30 | An argument which pulls in the opposite direction is this : even when the government or a governmental agency is , for example , making contracts , it is doing so in some sense as representative of the citizenry at large and must bear the interests of the community as a whole constantly in mind . |