Her nightgown was thin, and she felt chilly as she stepped across the hall, pulling back the curtain that shielded Gabriel's room.

What's more, I pull back the sheets to take a quick but suspicious gander at Bunny, and she's wearing a pair of my briefs.

An uncircumcised man should always take special precautions when bathing to pull back the foreskin and clean carefully around the glans.

Central African armed forces (FACA) troops were forced to pull back from the town and were planning an operation to retake it, the source said.

December 1 2010, Paul Fletcher, BBC News, Ipswich 1-0 West Brom
Jason Scotland should have scored after Tamas advanced purposefully down the right before pulling the ball back into the path of his team-mate, who shot straight at Myhill.

Feb 19 2007, Al-Jazeera, Stylish Sevilla pull level with faltering Barcelona
Ronaldinho pulled back a goal for Barca in injury time with a classy free-kick, but it was clearly too little too late to prevent their third Liga defeat.

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