TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PULL ABOUT»
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PULL ABOUT»
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pull about in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pull about and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Pull a muscle Strain a muscle While batting well, he pulled a muscle and had to
retire. Pull out a proof Take out an impression from The Director asked the steno
to pull out a proof for his document despatched the previous week. Pull about
Pull ...
Prof. V.N. Sadasiva Rau, Sura College of Competition, 2004
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Words Phrases That Carry Uncommon Mean
She was pressed on heavily on account of responsibilities after her father's death
. Pull/pull together/pull on/pull about/pull apart/pull in/pull off/pull out/pull over/pull
through/pull up It means to use force upon so as to draw towards or after one.
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The Chambers Dictionary
pull a bird (slang) to succeed in forming a (sexual) relationship with a young
woman; pull about to distort; to treat roughly: pull a face to grimace; pull a fast one
on (slang) to take advantage of by a trick; pull ahead to move into the lead; pull ...
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Six Hours Past Thursday
“The first mailing will pull about 4%; that's a 100 % gross profit for the owner,
double the 2% break-even point. Now, in just about any other type mail order
business the 'return,' or number of orders received, will drop about one-quarter.
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Language and Meaning in Cognitive Science: Cognitive Issues ...
And the most reliable natural information that the magnetosome carries is surely
not about oxygen-free water but about distal and proximal causes of the pull,
about the direction of geomagnetic or better, just plain magnetic, north. One can ...
Andy Clark, Josefa Toribio, 2012
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Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel
about the ...
She'd pull about eight demonstrations, and first thing you know they had two,
three blacks at the checkout counter. Her and I had some pretty close
confrontations. We'd go to the city-council meetings, and the blacks would be
there and we'd ...
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Crafting Wooden Lamps: 24 Brilliant Weekend Projects
Pull about 12" of wire through to give yourself some extra to work with. Drill a 1⁄4"
hole through the center of the bracket cap.I held the cap with a chuck on my lathe
and drilled it, holding the bit in a second chuck in the tailstock. Ifyou aren't set ...
8
The Electromagnet and Electromagnetic Mechanism
When I put the flat end of C to the flat pole A, so that there is an excellent contact,
I find the pull about 21- lb. Now try the round end of C on the flat pole A; the pull is
about 3 lb. The flat end of C on the round pole B is also about 3 1b., perhaps a ...
Silvanus Phillips Thompson, 2011
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: ...
... 1974. pull about. To treat roughly or without ceremony: coll. and dial.: C.19-20.
Ex S.E. sense, to pull this way and that. OED.—2, Hence, to take liberties with a
woman: low coll.: from ca. 1860. Cf. pully-hauly, play at, and muck about, qq.v.
Eric Partridge, Paul Beale, 1984
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Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from ...
The near side of the Earth feels a pull about 6 percent stronger than the far side.
This difference in pull tends to stretch the Earth a little bit. It's because the gravity
is different from one side of the Earth to the other, so we call it differential gravity.
