How To Use Pulling In A Sentence
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When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
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Pulling one back with another penalty - this time converted by the regular taker - they finally conceded a third.
The Sun
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He was pulling away from a couple of golfers who were smoking cigars and looked familiar.
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A couple have told how they are lucky to be alive after a horse pulling their carriage ran amok and started a stampede during a holiday pleasure trip.
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After laying down the melody, he proceeded to deconstruct it, pulling it into new shapes, twisting, fragmenting, yet never losing touch with his starting point.
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After pulling the ball over midwicket, Cairns showed he was no one-trick pony.
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The firemen did heave a sigh of relief after pulling the deer out, but did not settle down and relax.
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. Alfred Tennyson
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As he fought to rip the net apart, Francis noticed, with horror, that their struggles were only pulling the net tighter, causing it to inject increasing amounts of tranquilizing drugs into their bodies.
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The knot will keep the line from pulling through the turning block or fairlead.
Sailing Fundamentals
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Hold that stretch, pulling and elongating the spine from the very base out of the hips, chin to chest.
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She took a leather strap and buckled it around my wrist, attaching the dagger to it, pulling the sleeve down to conceal the weapon.
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Dunstan had drawn his blade and swung round, the horses pulling the cart rolling their eyes in fright, drawing to a halt.
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Clinker perceiving these signs of life, immediately tied up his arm with a garter, and, pulling out a horse-fleam, let him blood in the farrier stile. —
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Tom swayed on his backswing because his hands drifted too far away from his body, pulling his torso with them.
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He sank to a sitting position with his back against the door, pulling his knees to his chest.
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And the only real way of pulling it off is by making it a comedy and basically making the audience cack themselves constantly for an hour and a half.
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Getting him to do his homework is like pulling teeth.
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Horses trotted through the dirt streets, pulling buckboards and tally-hos past slower-moving electrified trolley cars.
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Pulling out of Queen's Park, heading towards Maida Vale through the smart terraces, it was all very nice, until at the Harrow Road a big gang of bus enthusiasts came on.
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Ana laughed it down, stuffing her hand into her pocket and pulling out two small yellow pills, uppers to block her sorrow.
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After drying, and brushing, and pulling and brushing and drying some more, my hair was one huge, frizzy, fuzzy mop.
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He's now oblivious to his workmates' leg-pulling and says: ‘I wouldn't be without my three-wheeler even though I've never been above 60 mph because it shakes too much.’
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Cinching : Practice of pulling the end of a roll to tighten it. It's not recommended.
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So when I turned on my seven-hundred-dollar heels to strut toward the bar, and over to where Mona was—perched up on a barstool with a frosty drink in her hand, like I wanted to be—I was slightly annoyed when some nigga grabbed me gently by the forearm, pulling me back to the floor.
Deep Throat Diva
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Sometimes too many keys rose at once and jammed together, so his fingers were all inky from pulling them apart.
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The monkey learns to administer himself a dose of whatever it is he wants by pulling the right lever.
BLACK EAGLES
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Spainhower explains that the pressure of biting on even a hair-thin tippet of mono can crack a preexisting fracture line in the tooth, but more often it is pulling at leader clamped between teeth or the snapping of tooth against tooth after the mono is cut that causes the damage.
Chew On This
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Suddenly they stop, statue-still, their knees crooked around one another, like fingers pulling on a wishbone.
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I'm not pulling your leg man, I'll not be leggin ya! by
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She documents herself pulling on dozens of pairs of nylons, one on top of the other.
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He explicates both character and action, thereby pulling the entire story to his level where all human motivation is lechery, which leads only to ‘the bone-ache.’
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Pulling a robe over her nightdress, she cautiously left the room.
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The steam locomotive was travelling backwards from Rawtenstall to Ramsbottom, pulling three carriages carrying 20 passengers.
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If you've got any sense you'll get out too," Rab said, pulling on his tie to unknot it.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Instead of stopping at the top as you normally would on a squat, perform an upright row by pulling the dumbbells up to your collarbones as you pronate your hands - then push off the balls of your feet as the weights reach their maximum height.
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Eve quickened her pace as she heard the distant roar of an engine pulling up into the driveway.
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Pulling into the upper third of the tach, one is treated to a deep-toned snarl that's both burly and refined.
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There may be fiddle playing, singing, guitar playing, Irish dancing, poetry reading, lie-telling and leg-pulling.
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Kon has never believed in pulling the camera away, and this is a Christmas story which involves madness, mugging, blood, and babies.
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The captain coming up to have a little conversation, and to introduce a friend, seated himself astride of one of these barrels, like a Bacchus of private life; and pulling a great clasp-knife out of his pocket, began to 'whittle' it as he talked, by paring thin slices off the edges.
American Notes
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He kept pulling at the rope until it broke.
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Asset management companies set up by governments in Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand have mopped up the worst bad loans, unburdening banks by pulling the plug on deadbeat borrowers.
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We simply follow the pulling of the rope, and it takes us to a kudu, giraffe, eland, warthog, or gemsbok.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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He had to devote all his attention to the routine task of driving, finally pulling over to recover.
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This (the tax change) is a further evidence the government is pulling the plug on the stimulus policies introduced during the crisis," said Jeremie Capron, analyst at CLSA.
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Last season, he focused too much on trying to hit home runs by pulling the ball, and his swing got messed up in the process.
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This leads the Stoics to a very anthropocentric view of the world, in which grain, olives and vines are for us to consume, sheep for clothing us with their fleeces, oxen for pulling our ploughs and so forth.
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Next thing I know someone was yanking me on my arm, and pulling me out of my chair.
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Most of the South is sunny, but we do have one storm system that's pulling across the northern plains.
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The edge colour of a chromakeyed composition can be altered to that of a complementary or selected colour, and mattes can be created by pulling a key from any colour background.
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Her hand glowed a faint red and touched the person who was pulling her away.
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On the way out, I was stuck behind a guy pulling a howitzer on a trailer that was covered in confederate flag stickers.
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Pulling one back with another penalty - this time converted by the regular taker - they finally conceded a third.
The Sun
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Yet they delighted in the constant movement of the ocean, fascinated by the pounding waves and pulling undertows.
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He stresses that goalkeeping is about more than pulling off show-stopping saves – or making the odd misjudgment.
Lukasz Fabianski ready to unseat Manuel Almunia as Arsenal No1 keeper
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Pulling on his hat and scarf he walked out into the gray fog of San Francisco.
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By pulling, for example, on the Brachioradialis in the cadaver the hand may be slightly supinated when in the prone position and slightly pronated when in the supine position, but there is no evidence that these actions are performed by the muscle during life.
IV. Myology. 1. Mechanics of Muscle
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NOT sitting their pulling words out of a thesaurus (your daily lexicon does not include "wan" and "intertextually") and forcing them into a half-ass review.
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Domesticated dogs carried Blackfoot belongings by pulling a loaded travois consisting of two long poles attached to the dog's sides.
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The big steel gates opened again and a three wheeled motorcycle drove in pulling a low trailer upon which were perched two plain wood coffins.
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Pulling off my dirty pinny and revealing my clean black uniform underneath I hurried out of the house and around to the back door of the Thornton's house.
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Mac nodded, turning on the Jeep and pulling out of the driveway at forty miles per hour.
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You make him sound infallible ," Rodenko said, pulling on his flak jacket.
CODE BREAKER
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Even in her best work manipulative string-pulling is evident.
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Ideology pulling hither and thither - sometimes resulting in apparent loss of direction - has not helped.
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She threw herself on her bed and ripped her shoes off, pulling her black pants on over her jeans and trying to button her black blouse with one hand.
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But that misperception is not going to lead to anybody anywhere pulling out.
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The decision would not be ignored, as the deadline for discontinuation of operations would be met, but troops would start pulling out later.
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In fact, there will be no more locomotives pulling the train because each carriage has its own engine.
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And in the afternoon we went for a row on the river, pulling easily up the anabranch and floating down with the stream under the shade of the river timber -- instead of going to sleep and waking up helpless and soaked in perspiration, to find the women with headaches, as many do on
Children of the Bush
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She quickly ran to her dresser, pulling the first drawer her open, her eyes searching for the glisten of gold.
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Pulling the ejector rod forward permits the barrel assembly to be pivoted bringing the ejector rod into position with chambers and loading gale.
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As he was pulling the hoody over his head the shirt rode up a little and I noticed that the last few buttons on the bottom of his shirt were undone.
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He was happy, unalienated, pulling a 4.0 and relentlessly straight with a series of Laguna girls.
Savages
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Pulling out of Africa may be problematic, though.
Times, Sunday Times
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A petty thief is seen pulling off a cheap scam on a shopkeeper by a major league con-artist who recruits him for a big job.
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She refused, instead offering peace to the Talz, recognizing their sovereignty, and pulling all Pantoran presence off of Orto Plutonia.
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The competitors who travel by foot and skis pulling sledges with supplies, will cover over 350 miles in four stages from Resolute Bay, Canada, to the North Magnetic Pole.
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The throttle kicks in, pulling your feet off the ground, while quickly and simultaneously crushing your head into the ceiling … After two years of wishing for a zippy, noir-ish thrill ride, and mind you, being promised that by all of the hype – we only get a stingy game that traffics in potential and nothing more.
DARK VOID PS3 Review – Collider.com
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He stumbled along the bridleway, wiping his eyes, pulling himself together.
LOST SUMMER
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Pulling out a rather large bag of gold pieces, he held it out, weighing it out in his hand.
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What's going on is that Tesco's is pulling further ahead and Sainsbury's is catching up.
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Sam tensed, then relaxed, not responding, but not pulling back either.
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Back in the 20s and 30s, businesses tried to advertise themselves by pulling dangerous publicity stunts.
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It was as if some irresistible natural force was pulling us together.
FRIENDS FOR LIFE
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Miguel's first instinct was to retrieve the balaclava, quickly pulling it back over his head.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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That's crucial: HITC is technically insolvent, and customers keep pulling funds.
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To the laughter of those around me, I marched him to the creek and sat down to remove my boots before pulling him into the water.
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I could spend hours just staring into the mirror, pulling daft faces.
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I'll thank you to stop pulling faces," said Euphemia," and get out of your nightdress, Gwendolen.
CHARMED LIFE
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A false start might be a most disorientating thing, but there will be plenty of time for pulling the drawbridge up never mind the thermals on in the months to come.
But do we really want a barbecue autumn? | Alex Clark
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Pulling off the cheap plastic lens and gubbins from the front of the camera was easy, as was opening up the back and gutting the thing of all the springs and pulleys and bits of black plastic that I wouldn't be needing.
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But it shocked the sport in December when it announced it was pulling out due to the worldwide economic crisis hitting sales.
The Sun
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The adjustment mechanism includes an aliform plate, a guide plate and an insert plate, and the aliform plate includes a pulling plate and a leading plate.
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He once said to me ‘I can't understand fellows pulling and dragging at a player, if you go for a ball don't waste petrol, make one journey.’
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Hardy removed his cloak, putting it in a box behind the seat, pulling out a pair of goggles that reminded Sasha of aviator glasses she had seen in old magazines her father once had.
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But then hands of steel get hold of my ankles and start pulling at me - pulling pulling pulling.
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Socks were stuffed in the shoes, and upon pulling them out I discovered they were knee-highs.
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The wind whipped at her skirt pulling the material taut across her calves and thighs, outlining her shape as the marble of a statue.
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One by one, states are pulling the plug on the chairs popularly known as Old Sparky.
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In that moment, I became absurdly sure that a supernatural force was working upon me, pushing and pulling me toward an unknown fate, a road at whose end stood the slight, cold figure currently bargaining with my father.
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As the camera the cinematographer is the gifted Andrew Reed moves around the table from one to the other, the warm light brightens their faces, pulling them out of the dark and toward shared discovery.
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Ramirez turned the taps, and hot water sluiced into the vast bath as he walked around the gargantuan chamber, pulling various bottles out of the cabinets that lined the upper reaches, sealed against the invasion of water.
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She'd pulled a quilt out of the armoire and wrapped herself in it, pulling the rocking chair around so she could see outside.
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Have we become a nation of obese imbeciles too sated with our diet of consumerism, television and self-indulgence to care who is pulling the strings at the top?
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They passed an old horse pulling a cart full of apples.
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Her barely there makeup took almost an hour to apply and she’d arranged her hair in an upswept ’do that required forty-five minutes of concentration as she created an off-center part, gathered her hair tightly into place, and then strategically released strands of hair, allowing the tresses to dangle, successfully pulling off the impression of whimsical undoneness that was both capricious and exceedingly sexy.
Pure Paradise
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Reverse is engaged by pulling on a special T-bar on the centre console that operates a microswitch.
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Most of the ‘apt pupils’ were pulling out their various forms of white-out and re-writing their carefully thought out lives.
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In reality, the conferees knew the only country that had an industrial base capable of pulling the world back from the precipice was the United States.
Vince Farrell: Bretton Woods II
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Call raked up a little sand and covered the chest wound with it, pulling aside his shirt.
The Lonesome Dove Series
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. Alfred Tennyson
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The jamboree is a big earner, pulling in 100,000 for each act.
The Sun
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We arrived as the ferry was pulling away.
Times, Sunday Times
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The car was pulling a trailer, which carried a boat.
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Molly whined, pulling back her hair into a long and swishy ponytail.
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"They hated seeing shots of the appliance pulling up because they pride themselves on getting there with a very fast response time," recalls Jennings.
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The proud dad said his son dealt with the leg-pulling from friends and teasing ‘in a really remarkable way’ with a maturity beyond his years.
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A specialized policy means you're covered whether you're just starting out with a brief trip, or a veteran full-timer pulling all the amenities of home behind you.
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At the back of the room sat a handsome young man playing the gusla and singing, apparently the proprietor, and two very pretty young women, all with that characteristically Slav look which comes from the pulling of the flesh down from the flat cheekbones by the tense pursing of the mouth.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V
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She set the chain snubber and came back to him, pulling off her rust-streaked gloves.
CORMORANT
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But that takes sometimes a more sophisticated and -- pulling those stories together sometimes takes a bigger reporting effort than the blotter, which is an accurate way, but sometimes it's as it happens, we're putting it out and watching it develop.
CNN Transcript May 21, 2006
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The city's original good intention was to improve local living standards by pulling down the city's old quarters and setting up new ones.
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Pulling his rifle to his shoulder he squinted along the barrel.
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Pashtun in the northern regions of Afghanistan enjoy buzkashi, or ‘goat pulling,’ a game in which men on horseback compete for possession of a dead goat or calf.
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And say, " he whispered, jovially , pulling Hurstwood over by the shoulder so that he might whisper in his ear, "if this isn't a good show, I'll punch your head.
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She saw the boats pulling away from the docks and the water foamed and bubbled beneath them.
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You can, if you make up your mind to it, prevent yourself from either wriggling, pulling your foot away, or giggling, when the sole of your foot is tickled; but if you happen to be at all "ticklish," it will take all the determination you have to do it, and some children are utterly unable to resist this impulse to squirm when tickled.
A Handbook of Health
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Barely a minute passes in this gun-crazy crime caper without someone pulling out a shooter or letting off some form of military hardware.
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It's all worth doing from the start, no matter what it is: working, fighting, marching and countermarching, plotting and counterplotting, backing your friends and hating your foes, playing big games and giving others a chance to, standing with your hand on the lynch-pin, or pulling your head safe out of the hot-pot.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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Pulling herself painfully up, she wobbled shakily on the cobbles, catching the icy metal of the lamp-post next to her to steady herself.
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Ari wasn't quick enough to leap out of the way and the man grabbed him by his shirt, ripping it and pulling Ari towards himself.
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Once this stage is reached, there is no turning back and the clematis quickly covers trellis and wall, pulling itself into shrubs and trees along its way.
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With the considerable football hype that is pulling and dragging at his sporting consciousness, it is vital that the senior hurlers are not overlooked.
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Work continues on researching the market, creating samples and pulling it all together into a cohesive business plan.
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A one-piece bathing suit can be transformed by pulling on a skirt or jeans for a beachside lunch.
Times, Sunday Times
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They concluded that these were the result of pulling meat out of teeth with one hand while cutting it with a stone knife held in the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fashion industry also appears to be taking lessons from its notoriously secretive counterpart and is pulling a cloak of mystery tightly around its financial affairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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And Goldberg, pulling the pad towards him and seizing his felt-tip pen, began to write.
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But while other favourites Macedonia, Georgia and Bolivia, are pulling in the money, it's peanuts compared with Miss Ireland, he said.
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We assumed that something was wrong with the reel - but there wasn't - the fish at that point had simply been pulling over 90 lb of drag.
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It is a measure of the president's continued pulling power that the Europeans, who have seemingly grudged every extra pair of boots the NATO secretary general has persuaded them to dispatch up until now, are to stump up around 7,000 additional troops for the war in Afghanistan alongside the 30,000 more committed by a president who has now more than doubled the U.S. contingent there.
How is Obama being viewed in Europe?
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' he replied, pulling from his waistcoat a curiously constructed pistol, having a double-edged spring knife attached to the barrel.
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the acolyte standing next to the priest called out, and she felt hands pulling her gently out of the way of the old man behind her.
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Harris and Snelling were placed under keepers, who amused themselves by tormenting their unhappy prisoners in various ways; such as pricking them with their knives, cutting off small pieces of their ears and fingers, and pulling out clumps of their hair.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
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Towing by pulling on a piassava rope is hard work for someone whose hands are not callused, and as Getulio will be too busy on shore to stay in the boat and help with the hauling ... somehow, I think your partners will remember this trip.
River Of Desire
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The closest I came to an accident all day was pulling out of an angled T-junction without being afforded a proper view of the road.
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He starts pulling kids off the cushionless sofa and stone-slinging them toward the door while the other kids and the jivey charismatics keep urging Juano on.
Underworld
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In the Brut Rose category, California is clearly pulling ahead.
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Investors worldwide would rush to find safe ground, dumping bank stocks and pulling deposits out of any banks that had heavy exposure in Third World loans.
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He was pulling the handle then started kicking the driver's door, pulling his leg right back and denting it.
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Pulling himself up off the ground, Robert sprinted over to the Boss and grabbed his hatchet, dropping his nightstick in the process.
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He was reminded of the previous night's events and glanced curiously to the window, a magnetic force pulling his head in that direction.
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It was the kind of warmth like pulling blankets out of the dryer and wrapping them around you in the middle of winter.
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Pulling his rifle to his shoulder he squinted along the barrel.
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With the economy pulling out of a shallow slump, pre-election unemployment topped out at a mere 5.7%.
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It moves downward when we breathe in, enlarging the chest cavity and pulling air in through the nose or mouth.
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Pulling the covers off revealed a no-nonsense rapier and a mid-length dirk.
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But honestly, with gravity pulling at your knee caps, who wants to see a 30 something in a mini, give me another Madonna in her leotards and I'll look the other way .
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The couple play golf twice a week, pulling their own trolleys, and are keen gardeners.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it left me to sort out the mess with opponents furious and TV execs pulling their hair out.
The Sun
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This tastes horrible, " said Tom, pulling a face at his glass.
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Taking slow, purposeful strides he took the seat next to Victoria on the bench and wrapped his arms around her; pulling her close to him so she could cry into his shoulder.
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The driver started honking and had already started pulling out again as I pulled my keks up and scrambled back onto the bus.
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"Here we are, " Katie said, pulling up in front of the main ski lodge.
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So perhaps now is not the time to disengage from North Asia, although pulling the US troops away is long overdue.
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For instance, in pulling a back tooth he recommends that the gums be incised so as to loosen them around the roots, and then the tooth itself may be drawn with a special forceps which he calls a molar forceps.
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And then pulling the rug away when the going gets tough.
Times, Sunday Times
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He walked with a lilting gait, his left Achilles tendon apparently shortened, pulling his left heel up.
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Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own affectingly hymns the singer's late father, pulling back from mawkishness.
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Operators such as U.S.-based Subway Restaurants are pulling in customers with fresh salads and sandwiches on focaccia bread.
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They concluded that these were the result of pulling meat out of teeth with one hand while cutting it with a stone knife held in the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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She could feel it pulling her down, slowing her down, aching her already sore body or surrogate of one.
A TIME OF WAR
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Hold that stretch, pulling and elongating the spine from the very base out of the hips, chin to chest.
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In the next instant I felt him pulling me to him, gathering me into his arms.
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Before long heads began poking above the water's surface, and eventually big critters with blackish shells and spraddled legs began pulling themselves onto shore.
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She saw the boats pulling away from the docks and the water foamed and bubbled beneath them.
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You steer by pulling the quant through the water behind the punt.
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The top, though long enough to cover the waist of the pants, was of jersey material, which meant a constant pulling down.
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If you want to lubricate the freewheel mechanism, access to it can be gained by pulling off the left side axle end cap by clamping this end cap in an axle vice and pulling the hub in line with the axle.
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Ejecting from an aircraft is rare, but pilots sometimes have to resort to pulling the ejection handle to save their lives.
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By pulling these observations together with some mathematical syntax, a theorem is formed relating to the expansion of binomial terms.
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What hotel habits have you pulling your ( still wet) hair out?
Times, Sunday Times
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It was at that precise moment that Madison casually strolled in, pulling the heavy barn door shut with a loud slam.
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He turned his arm toward her, pulling the torn cloth from the spot on his bicep that had borne the cut of the blackthorn hours earlier.
Healing the Highlander
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A pencil eyeliner is also effective but make sure it's of a creamy texture as there's nothing worse than pulling a hard pencil across the tender skin of the eyelid - ouch!
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There was the usual leg-pulling.
The Sun
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The old man sat in the corner, pulling at his pipe.
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I'm sure we owe part of our victory to the number of supporters who were there, pulling for our side.
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When the time-delayed fuse is lit by pulling the pin, the powder burns, creating a deafening bang and a blinding flash.
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Other examples of the satirist's humour, cited by Le Monde, include saying that homosexuals smell of the 'shithouse' and that 'pulling the toilet chain is the only choice'.
Ooooo la La Paris
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He reaches down and starts untying her other bootlace and gently pulling her boots and socks off, massaging her feet and ankles as he does.
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This can cause any number of errors, such as pulling the ball to the left or hitting it thin.
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Joe and I were pulling into Vancouver having driven down the sunshine coast in pouring rain (hmmmmm) and alighted from the ferry.
Archive 2006-10-01
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They were among fifteen tourists hurt when the horses pulling their carriages bolted unexpectedly during a tour of the Briksdal glacier in Stryn, western Norway, on Monday.
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We are all pulling in one direction.
The Sun
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Hempshaw was like a rope stretched taut with a full grown steer pulling at it.
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Are you pulling my leg?
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There's a certain finesse required for pulling off unforgettable sci-fi movies and I really hope Neil has it - I don't want a story with potential like this one becoming the next Jumper.
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