1.   At the end of the day, of course, it is fanaticism, not literature, that pulls the trigger.

2.   But never mind, though their blue-veined old hands might be trembling their fingers could still pull a trigger.

3.   He brought up his arm in one swift movement and pulled the trigger.

4.   He had not delivered the fatal blows, he had not pulled the trigger.

5.   He pulled the trigger - and to his horror shot Christopher in the head.

6.   He pulled the trigger but the chamber was empty.

7.   I thought about pulling the trigger, and the gun exploded, slapping back against my hand.

8.   In a moment of blind panic, she had pulled the trigger and shot the man dead.