Example sentences of "pulled [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Léonie could n't watch them any more , she was being pulled on to the narrow track between the trees . |
| 2 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |
| 3 | ‘ The hotel has been condemned and is to be pulled down within the next couple of days . ’ |
| 4 | Many medieval millers paid their rent to the lord of the manor in eels ; and when the water-mill in the centre of Stafford was pulled down after the last war , the laconic miller expressed as his only regret : ‘ I shall miss the eels . ’ |
| 5 | The horsemen of Ellyrion were pulled down by the foul beasts of Chaos . |
| 6 | Some are pulled in by the package-holiday attractions of Ayia Marina , the island 's miniature experiment in Costa Bravado . |
| 7 | As they reached the lay-by , the accused had pulled in alongside the red van and stopped . |
| 8 | This is pulled through from the tufted end , a technique particularly useful for vending machine parts and similar to that used for cleaning rifles . |
| 9 | His Dad had pulled up on the other side of the road . |
| 10 | They said no more then , for the coach had pulled up at the main door . |
| 11 | The even-money favourite was never moving in his best style and was pulled up before the 15th fence . |
| 12 | Many gliding clubs use multi-drum winches so that several cables are pulled out at the same time . |
| 13 | the degree can vary from the rider feeling that he is having his arms pulled out to the good feeling when the horse is keen to get on with his business — this is described as being well up to the rider 's hand . |
| 14 | But a random selection of the massive output of the chancery shows all the stops pulled out of the papal organ : the reminder to the papal judge , acting by delegation in a distant province of the Church , that he will need to answer for his actions before the Supreme Judge , the care with which letters seeking advice are answered ( Eustace of Ely ) , the terrible missives which reached King John and other miscreants and recalcitrants . |
| 15 | Across the road a large grey car suddenly pulled out of the Downshurst-bound traffic and stopped on the grass verge beyond the estate-car and the police busy with tape-measures and notebooks . |
| 16 | COLIN STURGESS , Britain 's world pursuit champion , has pulled out of the final round of the McEwan 's LA professional series in Manchester on Sunday because of tendinitis . |
| 17 | A rabbit has been pulled out of the political hat , and might be handed to Hong Kong . |
| 18 | THE MERGER initiatives of the large accountancy firms were thrown into further disarray yesterday when the UK firm of Deloitte Haskins & Sells pulled out of the worldwide merger with Touche Ross . |
| 19 | Nationalist slogans , ‘ pulled out of the murkiest depths of history ’ , were chanted , and the crowd , armed with metal posts , sticks and stones , then proceeded to beat up local citizens , overturn cars and set them on fire , and smash the windows of shops and other public buildings . |
| 20 | Last night TCCB officials gave a cautious welcome to the Kiwi offer , spokesman Ken Lawrence saying : ‘ At the moment we have not even thought of going elsewhere because we have not pulled out of the Indian tour . |
| 21 | An Independent Television Authority would regulate them , run by a group of people pulled out of the old drawer marked ‘ gentlemen amateurs ’ . |
| 22 | Earlier , the socialist Congress Party for Malagasy Independence ( Parti du congrès de l'indépendance de Madagascar — AKFM-Renewal , formed after the March 1989 presidential elections — see p. 36678 ) announced on Oct. 6 that it had pulled out of the ruling coalition . |
| 23 | The kitchen table was covered with homework , dictionaries , ring notebooks and ‘ All you Need to Know about the Russian Revolution ’ pulled out of the huge pieces of luggage Henrietta took every day to school , books used to erect tottering towers wherever the family was next about to eat . |
| 24 | Mark Aizlewood , Bradford City 's midfield player , has pulled out of the Welsh squad for their World Cup game against The Netherlands next week after having an operation on a fractured cheekbone yesterday . |
| 25 | ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane . |
| 26 | Using a closed-loop ministep control with rotor position obtained by waveform detection , however , the phase currents can be adjusted so that the rotor is pulled back to the demanded position , giving a system which has effectively infinite stiffness ( Fig. 7.1 5b ) . |