The phrase "actually pulling it off" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe successfully accomplishing something that seemed difficult or unlikely.
Example: "Despite the challenges, she was actually pulling it off and completing the project ahead of schedule."
Alternatives: "truly succeeding" or "genuinely achieving".
Sanchez is said to often play this joke when arriving at the Emirates on a match day but without ever actually pulling it off.
Actually pulling it off, however, involves a lot of moving parts — both literal and figurative.
The two are competitive and seem likely to make such a gamble only if their words about making it happen match the realities of actually pulling it off.
Health policy consultant Doug Badger of the Galen Institute, for example, said the GOP's "repeal and replace was a potent political weapon," but Republicans have found actually pulling it off as a form of governing to be out of their reach.
Four days out from the New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton was intent on persuading women to close the margin by which she trails Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — and also to play down the odds of actually pulling it off.
It aims to shed light on Miami's talented local acts, vendors, artists and art collectives, thinkers, dreamers, doers – all that posi community vibe shit – and it's one of the most successful examples we've seen of a festival actually pulling it off.
Be French Eric Cantona: the footballer who actually pulled it off.
I wasn't sure at first if I could actually pull it off.
In 1999, Larry and Andy Wachowski stated their ambition to make an "intellectual action movie" and they actually pulled it off.
The interrogation in the sitter's feverish eyes conveys the haunting anxiety of an artist about to show his work, wondering whether he actually pulled it off.
That Ford actually pulls it off is a tribute to a leading man whose very success, as a comic-book hero in the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" series, has diminished his reputation as an actor.
