Pull over
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Definition
To move a vehicle to the side of the road and stop (often by police)
Example sentence
The police pulled over the speeding car.
Real video usage
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Common collocations
Natural word pairings to memorize.
Common pattern: pull over / pull + someone + over
pull over to the side
pull the car over
get pulled over
pull someone over for speeding
Separable usage
Can the object split the verb? Compare correct vs incorrect.
The cop pulled him over for speeding. ✅ (Correct — often separated with a pronoun object)
The cop pulled over him for speeding. ❌ (Incorrect — pronoun objects must go between the verb and particle)