Example sentences of "[conj] pulled [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody must have sat on it , or pulled it or |
| 2 | The dragons could n't get you through the air-hole ; they could only get you if you put out a foot or a hand , or worst of all your head ; that was when they struck ; bit it off , or pulled you right out and ate all of you . ’ |
| 3 | But the fifteen that stayed and played on Saturday typified the courage that pulled them out of the gloom . |
| 4 | The grooms at his home in Princes Risborough , believe it was Sefton 's spirit that pulled him through . |
| 5 | He ran his gloved hand up across Alexei 's shoulder , and pulled something from the stiff material of the embroidered coat . |
| 6 | I took a breath and pulled myself hand over hand down the curtain , seeking to find the bottom of it with my feet : and there was indeed a gap between the bottom edge of the curtain and the mud , but only a matter of inches , and there was clutter down there , unidentifiable , pressing against the barrier , trying to get past it . |
| 7 | I loosened my waistband and pulled myself together . |
| 8 | So I said , all right , and pulled myself away and went back . |
| 9 | I grabbed the top of the fence and pulled myself up until I could rest my forearms there , keeping myself about a foot off the ground by skidding the toes of my trainers — only cleaned last week as well — into the wet wood . |
| 10 | and pulled myself over the gutter , it were alright getting up , it were getting back in |
| 11 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I 've been thinking , ’ he said , as he slid his arm around her waist and pulled her close . |
| 13 | She put on her cape and turned up the collar and pulled her hat low over her eyes . |
| 14 | The Sandrat hugged the girl , and pulled her close . |
| 15 | ‘ You and your Private Nobody , ’ said Dolly , and pulled her skirt up , saucily unveiling her white petticoat with its foamy lace and pink ribbons . |
| 16 | He smiled a funny little lopsided grin and pulled her closer . |
| 17 | She shrugged and pulled her coat tighter around her . |
| 18 | The assassins were shot , and Clara wrenched herself away , and the man murmured to her desperately , " Laschemi fare , laschemi fare , " and Clara equally stricken , could not let him , and the credits came up , and the lights came up , and he let her go , and she straightened her coat and pulled her skirt tightly down over her knees , and that was that . |
| 19 | Seeking to print the problem of a correspondent whose small son had , " taken a little girl behind the settee and pulled her knickers down " , she found her sub-editor had deleted the latter part of the quoted sentence and substituted , " taken off part of her underclothes " . |
| 20 | Patrick walked to her and pulled her red wool dress over her head , exposing her tiny naked breasts that had never really needed a brassiere , and her lower body , encased in black tights . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh God , ’ said Henrietta and pulled her hat over her eyes . |
| 22 | Then Minch fluttered her wings , and scuffled her talons , and pulled her head a little higher to make herself look as proud in the darkness as she felt . |
| 23 | Then , first looking round to make sure no one was watching , she sat up straight again and pulled her dress to her knees , with her legs on either side of the horse . |
| 24 | He grabbed her and pulled her close . |
| 25 | Julia loved him for that protectiveness , too , and pulled her hand out of his to let him go . |
| 26 | Two or three of us , we pulled her down into the barley and pulled her drawers down and filled 'em with barley . |
| 27 | Sleepy and cold in the back of Dada 's slow , unheated monster , Andrew put an arm round Nicandra 's shoulders and pulled her close for warmth and company . |
| 28 | Glowing now after her exercise , she sat down on the rock and pulled her skirts over her knees , hugging them to her so that her chin could rest there while she gazed . |
| 29 | She shivered and pulled her cloak close . |
| 30 | She shivered in the icy wind and pulled her warm hat further around her ears . |