Sentence examples for get pulled up from inspiring English sources

Women, they wear the wrong colour and they get pulled up".

We do, of course, make mistakes, and we rightly get pulled up for it.

Any Coki tune I play in a set is always going to get pulled up – his music is designed for that very purpose!

Broad's actions do little to calm the emotions of the man in the Mumbai street who thinks that Indian and subcontinental players get pulled up more than anyone else - that cricket is fundamentally a racist game.

There's something refreshing about the idea that no one is that good at spying and that even the most committed to the cause can get pulled up short by new technology or a misplaced bug.

But back on higher ground, with the fog lifting as quickly as it arrived, it is much harder to remain immersed in the 21st century and much easier to get pulled up the slope to the large granite cross that serves as a memorial to the 19th-century poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, who lived and wrote nearby in 1851.

When this kind of corer is pulled up from underwater, the first thing that gets pulled up is the piston, which eases a bit more mud into the barrel than you would get with a gravity corer.

It then gets pulled up by the barrowload, whereas a little sterner weeding early on would have been a lot easier.

Not something German that's old as well!", but when they sat down and watched it, they were amazed by the sheer grandeur of how the whole ship got pulled up the hill".

If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting pulled up the ladder by other men.

"Housing gets pulled up along with condos because the luxury market sets the bar so high.