But after a friend "literally dragged" him to the International Games for the Disabled the situation began to change.

Mr. Rivers's own friends dragged him from the building, where, the police said, he kicked a police car and then was arrested.

A friend dragged him from the wreckage, and soon he was on a helicopter to Baghdad.

"A friend dragged me to a game," she recalled.

Brett's friends were dragging him away, pulling the gun from his reluctant hand.

"Something your daughter's friends dragged in a couple of days ago," Angbard dropped offhandedly.

Then the three friends dragged the corpse off the stage, down into the dark aisles below.

A friend dragged the man away before Phelan could do more damage.

My friend and I dragged Andre out of there, but it was too late.

He tried his hand at comedy, but after a friend dragged him to a creative writing class, he was hooked.