Sentence examples for to pull the string from inspiring English sources

"What I want is, a Cold Shower of the best quality, always charged to an unlimited extent, so that I have but to pull the string, and take any shower of cold water I choose".

But while Dr Scrote has long been forgotten, everyone remembers the bloke who swallowed a metre of string, washed it down with a pint of water, pierced a hole in his belly with a knife, and proceeded to pull the string from his gut.

Dickens instructed his builder to provide a shower bath in his new home at Tavistock Place in 1851: "What I want is a cold shower of the best quality, always charged to an unlimited extent, so that I have but to pull the string …" But for most of their lives the poor had to make do with merely washing their hands and faces.

Three thousand miles from where John Franco was staring at potential ruin to a baseball season, from a distance so much safer to make the call, Joe Gambuzza talked to the television as if it had ears and the ability to pull the string on Barry Bonds.

Twitter continues to pull the string on personalization and recommendation with a new account called @magicstats.

More than 60% of the insects that watched knew to pull the string when it was their turn.

Small business: Are you cut out to pull the strings?

But rather than using animation, Mr Letteri wanted an actor's performance to pull the strings.

With those two offering pace from the flanks, Francesco Totti can continue to pull the strings.

Once the case got under way Mesereau carefully began to pull the strings.

And how does it manage to pull the strings of publicity so effectively?