Sentence examples for we would drag from inspiring English sources

When the fighting was particularly heavy, we would drag mattresses into the hallway and prop them against the walls.

I remember growing up with snowball fights and snowmen, and momentous days when school was cancelled, when we would drag the sledges down from the attic.

After the London summit, there were those who said that the UK had been bounced into action, that we would drag our feet on compliance, that the territories were desperate to hang on to their "tax haven" status.

The year I helped move my parents out of the house they'd been in for more than 40 years, we would drag some of the detritus of the ages to the street and then stumble back for another load, and in the seven minutes it took to bring some more junk to the curb, the first pile would be picked clean.

His every activity is brutal, strenuous, sucky: "I sucked love like phthalo green sucks light," he says of himself with Marlene, and Hugh reports, "Butcher bought a plastic wading pool and then constructed a metal crossbar and once this was bolted to the floor we would drag the canvas like a reluctant beast through a cattle dip of paint".

** His every activity is brutal, strenuous, sucky: "I sucked love like phthalo green sucks light," he says of himself with Marlene, and Hugh reports, "Butcher bought a plastic wading pool and then constructed a metal crossbar and once this was bolted to the floor we would drag the canvas like a reluctant beast through a cattle dip of paint".

We'd drag Mossley Hill-born Kim Cattrall back to be PM; get Gerrard installed in our own Departure for Culture, Media and Sport.

Two weeks later we'd drag the tree out onto the street, St. John's Place between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Park Slope, Brooklyn, leaving a trail of dead needles on the wooden floor of the hallway, and then the bluestone in front of the house.

We'd drag benches around, sit there and smoke the £5 draw we bought at Cannon Hill park.

Once we'd dragged the block to the surface, we had to tread water for a minute or more, hoisting the prop overhead.

After Katrina, the people of Houston gave me not only meals and dry towels but also a good newspaper job, a house of our own to live in, even some farmland on which to keep the pet goat we'd dragged along.