Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] pulled [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arlington Mill is one of those mills that was pulled back from the brink of destruction in the nick of time . |
| 2 | I sat on it , and was pulled up to the island . |
| 3 | The even-money favourite was never moving in his best style and was pulled up before the 15th fence . |
| 4 | Trainer David Barons had no excuses for last year 's winner Seagram , who made no show and was pulled up before the third-last . |
| 5 | But one grey-haired uplander disappeared into a hole below a boulder and was pulled out by the hair and carried back towards Keltney on a stretcher of cut branches . |
| 6 | She overshot the glove and was pulled back by the creance . |