Sentence examples for pull its finger from inspiring English sources

Entire universes have been created and destroyed in the time it took ITV to pull its finger out and make anything like an official announcement.

The Pensions Regulator needs more powers to intervene earlier – and it should be told to pull its finger out and use them.

And the House of Commons business-affairs committee, too, said in January that it wanted the government to pull its finger out.The Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), however, sees its role less as an active promoter of British exports than as a last-ditch line of defence when the market has no answer (it is also charged with making a profit).

Labour needs to pull its finger out".

The government needs to pull its finger out and introduce legislation".

Lack of progress led Labour MP Ian Lucas to ask the government to "pull its finger out" last month.

The army had pulled its finger out at last and D-Day was on.

Just as soon as Columbia pulls its finger out and releases his 41 recordings at the right speed.

Tune in next week to find out how things at the conference went and whether the international community finally pulled its finger out. .

Sean Ellis's first two features, Cashback and The Broken (the former expanded from an Oscar-nominated short) were self-regarding twaddle, so it's good to report that his third film pulls its creative finger out and starts to justify some of the praise poured too early upon the emergent film-maker.

City Hall pulls out its finger and allocates resources, the police and the newspaper cooperate to try to gain the public's help to catch the madman, rallies are held to shine a spotlight on the ignored plight of the homeless – and it's all based on a lie.