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MrPernickety Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Usage of "pull up"

Hi, everybody !

Could you tell me if this sentence is good English:

I did a search in cyberspace yesterday and it pulled up a few names.

Thanks a bunch !
  

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"pull up" is an idiom to mean, in your case, as "retrieve". Chris

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"pull up" is an idiom to mean, in your case, as "retrieve".

Chris
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Thanks but that was not what I asked. Emotion: smile

I know what it means, I just want to know how "pull up" sits in my sentence with the
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Hi,
The phrase is fine. It fits the informal register of the whole sentence.

Clive
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