Example sentences of "pulled [adv prt] of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letters of her own to a friend had been pulled out of a waste-paper basket by the friend 's husband , who did a jigsaw puzzle of the bits to find if there were signs that his wife had complained of him . |
| 2 | THE Queen Mother has pulled out of a public engagement for tomorrow and will remain in Scotland a few days longer after her hospital stay . |
| 3 | BORIS BECKER has pulled out of a third tournament , the Tokyo Grand , which begins on Monday , because of a nagging knee injury . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A rabbit has been pulled out of the political hat , and might be handed to Hong Kong . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | An Independent Television Authority would regulate them , run by a group of people pulled out of the old drawer marked ‘ gentlemen amateurs ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |