Example sentences of "pull [pers pn] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No , the ones who get me are the purposeful ones who are out to pull you down a peg or two when you were quite happy with the peg you were on .
2 On the album , because of the studio , I had to pull it back a bit , but on the road in Europe and the States I can get up to these big , massive sounds . ’
3 The charges allege that on various occasions over the 14 months to August last year at the home , she assaulted one woman by throwing her from her bed on to a chair then a commode , putting her in a bath against her will and pulling her along a corridor , and of assaulting the second woman in a similar manner by throwing her from her bed on to a wheelchair and then a commode , dragging her across a room and tying her to a chair .
4 We was there all one Sunday with a trace-horse , pulling him up the common with his slaughter-cart : dead cows and that .
5 I think it 's the stomach that 's fatter pulls them up a bit .
6 If someone pulls you out the river when you 're half drowning , you just lie on the bank coughing and spluttering , and no one expects you to say anything .
7 ‘ The guy that was sober told him to get a grip and pulled him out the shop .
8 James Spencer QC , prosecuting , alleged Mr Nichol approached Mrs Chandler in a field but when she ignored him he pulled her down the bank , sexually assaulted her and hit her on the head with a rock or rocks .
9 When they pulled her out the vase had n't a crack in it , and then the air-raid warden stumbled … ’
10 It was fairly loose and when I pulled it out the shells started dropping into the hole .
11 He clipped the lead on to the dog with cold hands which would hardly function , and let her pull him up the slope as fast as he could make his legs move .
12 pull it up the chimney
13 No , you pull it out a bit at a time , not just
14 Not like fellers smoking a cigarette : just pull it out the packet , stick it in their mouth , do n't think about what they 're doing .
15 Pull it down a bit .
16 Pull it down a bit .
17 Pull it down a bit .
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