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He added that he had "grabbed hold of her hands" as she was trying to pull at a catheter in a large vein.

Usually when I’m investigating, I can find a few loose threads to pull at by searching newspaper archives, court records or social media.

He has won two Brit awards, which have both been turned into beer hand pulls at the Low Lights Tavern in North Shields - the North Tyneside pub he worked at and where he was discovered.

“Impacting kids is the kind of thing that pulls at my heart,” Ballmer said.

Take, for example, a chimp who vocalizes and pulls at the bars of their enclosure when someone approaches.