Example sentences of "[coord] pulled out " in BNC.

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1 You will find that this can not be pulled out in error ( who has not picked a bit of wool out only to find that it was the marker ! ) and it can either be pulled up tight later as a permanent marker or pulled out and used again .
2 Here it is , he said and pulled out a bottle of foul-looking medicine that could well have been the very stuff that Dr Jekyll used to turn himself into Mr Hyde .
3 He reached in carefully and pulled out a handful of letters .
4 He rummaged in his pocket and pulled out something damp and crumpled .
5 Marie sighed and pulled out a dining-chair from under the table .
6 Mungo felt in his pocket and pulled out a hammer with ‘ A. Zamoyski ’ burnt into the handle with a poker .
7 Even if they locked him in a dark cell and pulled out all his teeth with rusty pliers , he must keep his promise to Sweetheart and tell them nothing .
8 Another day he was sent from Washington to a Chinese vegetable stand on the Lower West Side in Manhattan , where he was told to ask for a person with the code name ‘ Mooey ’ ; Mooey went behind the counter , rolled up his trouser-leg and pulled out a wad of hundred-dollar bills , which Owen thought ‘ I had better count anyways . ’
9 She opened the bag , dipped in a hand and pulled out a slip of paper .
10 I reached in my pocket and pulled out the wadded up bill .
11 They piled up bricks and pulled out nails in our builders ' yard of a back garden , had a roaring bonfire every other night , and went to Nan 's for a bath .
12 The restrictors fitted to the Stage One V8 are easily removed by removing the carbs and pulling the restrictor from the manifold They are in fact aluminium discs with three holes about ⅜″. diameter in each one and are held in by an expanding steel clip Select a suitable diameter tap and tap a thread with a smear of grease on the top to collect swarf , fit a long bolt and lever out with a pry bar Extremely obstinate ones may be split into three large bits with a small chisel and pulled out Clean the debris out with a vacuum cleaner A piece of l/2″ hose taped onto the suction pipe will reach most places in the manifold .
13 He groped in a pocket and pulled out a now useless packet of cigarettes .
14 Howard reached inside his brown leather jacket and pulled out a note-pad and pencil .
15 Briant put his hand in his inside jacket pocket and pulled out the folded sheet of paper that carried his statement , and , a little startled at the sudden wave of apprehension that swept over him , he stood up .
16 ‘ This is a real sod of a case , ’ Bragg remarked , as he sank into his chair and pulled out his pipe .
17 Anyway , I came to this old cemetery and against one wall was this kind of beehive grave affair and someone had broken into one of the graves and pulled out this baby 's coffin and smashed it open .
18 He dug into the bag and pulled out an 8-iron .
19 I jumped off the wheelbarrow and pulled out the only literature I had to spare — details of the expedition in English .
20 The Feldwebel took it into a corner and pulled out a large envelope which he threw onto the table .
21 Thiercelin pocketed the sketch and pulled out a notebook and Conté pencil .
22 The instructor smiled as he went to each man in turn and pulled out two full arm lengths of cord from their parachutes before attaching it to the static line .
23 He liked the straw mattress and pulled out a small leather pouch which Corbett recognised as being in common use by clerks in the Chancery or envoys on their travels .
24 She pointed to one and pulled out her remaining change to pay for it .
25 He undid the sack put his hand in and pulled out half a loaf .
26 Then , standing on tiptoe , she reached up into the eaves where the agricultural tools were stored , and pulled out two wooden rakes , karasos , and two lengths of hemp-fibre rope .
27 Delaney reached in his pack and pulled out his respirator .
28 The next thing he knew — by this time he would have the undivided attention of the entire bar — one of the Americans tore his fur hat off and screamed , ‘ OK , craphead , where is he ? ’ while one of the bobbies reached into the open back seat and pulled out an attaché case that he had to spend an hour telling them he had never seen before .
29 He reached into the side-pocket of his tracksuit and pulled out a flat black box .
30 A PUNTER reached into his pocket for his keys and pulled out a forgotten betting slip worth £10,000 .
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