Example sentences of "pull [adv prt] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But umm I sort of drove on for a bit and thought it feels alright and then when I got to that , you know B P petrol station , I pulled in and got out and had a look . |
| 2 | I told you , I said to him , I just pulled in and heaved them out . |
| 3 | Fifteen miles south of Garberville my eyes began to close and I pulled over and slept for half an hour . |
| 4 | We pulled over and met the two drivers . |
| 5 | I was waving but no-one would stop and I was there for nearly half an hour before a man pulled over and helped me . |
| 6 | ‘ He did n't seem to know where the hotel entrance was so my husband pulled over and pointed it out to him . |
| 7 | Near the harbour entrance Maurin overtook Cobalt , pulled up and got out of his car to speak . |
| 8 | She pulled up and ran after the still-moving combine , grasped the rail with one finger and sprang on to the vertical steps . |
| 9 | They stopped and another friend bound for the same place , who had seen the problem , pulled up and walked over to them . |
| 10 | Adam pulled up and asked directions , and having found out he had come too far , he drove back to the IFA Motorenwerk and turned right . |
| 11 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 12 | He pulled up and leant against a tree . |
| 13 | A lift pulled up and took me away . |
| 14 | Roger , overtaking her in his ramshackle car , pulled up and opened the door . |
| 15 | This was then attached in turn to five ropes which he pulled up and fastened to the pole . |
| 16 | The ground is being pulled up and relayed in stages . |
| 17 | He checked again that his wet socks were pulled up and stood very still . |
| 18 | He pulled back and squinted at her , pushing out his lower lip in a gesture combining pugnacity and deliberation . |
| 19 | The sheer pleasure of it swept him up and it was a full minute before he pulled back and looked at her , amazed at how happy he felt . |
| 20 | Her nails were biting into her palms when he pulled back and looked down into her face . |
| 21 | ‘ My pure angel , ’ he breathed raggedly when , quite some minutes later , he pulled back and looked down at her beautiful face , at her cheeks made pink by his kisses . |
| 22 | She pulled back and smiled nervously . |
| 23 | Marron hair pulled back and clipped over her ears , falling freely behind ; lack of make-up bestowing a pallor which dramatised her generous brown eyes ; petite mouth and jaunty nose , set rather low on the tapered oval of her face , thus emphasising the curved hauteur of her forehead . |
| 24 | What he pulled out and flung on the bed were garments of his own : a thick jacket and breeches and boots . |
| 25 | Then he pulled out and began to overtake again . |
| 26 | He pulled out and turned Richard over and lifted his hips and entered him again . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This can then bc pulled out and opened out as the occasion demands . |
| 29 | For example , if you use what was the dining room for a work room/study as well , you should either have a round table which can be piled with books when necessary , a table set off-centre , or a drop-leaf table that can be pulled out and set up in the centre of the room as required . |
| 30 | This was the view expressed by Anne Smith about Bellerby Feast which , like so many other traditions , was tottering on the very brink of extinction in 1985 when it was pulled back and had new life breathed into it . |