Example sentences of "pull [pers pn] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 2 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 3 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 4 | They reckoned They was going to pull it down after the War . |
| 5 | At the top end , very high-fliers are still in demand , to the extent that recruiters sometimes have difficulty pulling them down from the stratosphere to fill plum vacancies . |
| 6 | She came to stand close and he took her hand , pulling her down to the settee with him . |
| 7 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 8 | Pulling it down to the earth |
| 9 | They were like little nets : they were exactly the shape of a horse 's ears : he pulled them down over the ears , and they each had a red or blue tassel hanging on them . |
| 10 | A tallish hummock loomed , and he pulled her down into the wet grass behind it . |
| 11 | Two or three of us , we pulled her down into the barley and pulled her drawers down and filled 'em with barley . |
| 12 | Mary laughed as Martin pulled her down on the bed beside him . |
| 13 | Penry pulled her down on the sofa forcibly . |
| 14 | The problem was finally solved by fixing a wire to my ankle and running it under the rock to an aqualunged diver , who on a signal from Stuart would tug on the wire and pull me down with the speed of an express lift , and would let go when my face turned blue . |
| 15 | I 'll pull you down into the gutter . ’ |
| 16 | The horsefly larvae use their two large jaws to capture the tiny toad and pull it down into the mud where they feed on its body fluids . |
| 17 | If the gull has the nerve to dive at them , an auntie may even grab it by the feet and pull it down into the water . |