pull up

I pull up the lever when I want to make my car go into first gear.

Pull up a bench and have a seat.

Terrain ahead! Pull up!

Pull up that website for me; it sounds quite interesting.

I'm pulling up to the club tonight, want to join?

People pull me up in the street to ask if I have room for their son, daughter, sister or cousin to come down to go to school[.]

At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...' She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped⁠—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.

In this May 20, 2006, Barbaro is steadied a track worker as jockey Edgar Prado looks on after he pulled up the horse with a fractured right rear leg during the 131st running of the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket. Now he was muttering grumpily at Edmund, "Have to get something better this trip, Edmund. Got to pull up somehow or buyers will be turnin' us down. Sales been gettin' worse and worse these last years."