follow vs pull up

follow

verb
  • To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching. 

  • To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling. 

  • To understand, to pay attention to. 

  • To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform. 

  • To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc). 

  • To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.). 

  • To be a logical consequence of something. 

  • To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person. 

  • To go or come after in a sequence. 

noun
  • In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. 

  • The act of following another user's online activity. 

pull up

verb
  • To pull forward. 

  • To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins). 

  • To raise the nose of an aircraft. 

  • To cause (a horse) to stop when riding. 

  • To fetch for display on a screen. 

  • To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point. 

  • To admonish or criticize someone for their actions. 

  • To cause (a person) to stop. 

  • To lift upwards or vertically. 

  • To improve; to get better; to lift one's game. 

  • To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to. 

How often have the words follow and pull up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )