Example sentences of "draw up [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 2 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 3 | They drew up with a rasp of gravel just behind the trailer , and Sergeant Allen 's head popped out as if on a string . |
| 4 | There was something in the speed , as they rounded corners on two wheels , that shook her out of her bad mood , and when they drew up with a squeal of brakes in the narrow road just by Pepe 's Bar , she was laughing at Miguel 's uncharacteristic recklessness . |
| 5 | Beyond the moored boats and the fire we drew up on the bank for the night . |
| 6 | Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra . |
| 7 | Mrs Stych drew up at the kerb in her new European car , bought , needless to say , from Maxie 's arch-rival down in Edmonton . |
| 8 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 9 | We drew up at the house at last , and the man came round to help me down . |
| 10 | A mortuary van drew up at the end of the bridge , and two men , carrying a stretcher , came down the steps . |
| 11 | The car that drew up outside the villa at sunset was of an obsolete make , long in the bonnet , high on the wheels , cared for , faintly absurd , the kind of car that nowadays would be called vintage . |
| 12 | Police say a car containing three men drew up outside the house in Hudson Street . |
| 13 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 14 | When Jed drew up in the alley behind Mitch 's place , he saw an oil-lamp glowing in the kitchen window . |
| 15 | There was no local version of the Rectitudines Singularum Personarum ( Rights of Individuals ) , the eleventh-century code of legal and rural practices drawn up as a guide for the country as a whole . |
| 16 | A report in the Sunday Times last week , confirming the Sunday Life story of July 11 , revealed the plans were drawn up as a result of an intelligence source in the IRA who said the organisation had developed a ‘ peace party ’ led by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness . |
| 17 | Deliberate destruction of the environment in times of war should be declared a war crime and a Geneva Convention on the protection of nature in times of war should be drawn up as a matter of urgency . |
| 18 | The back flap of his breacan-feile was drawn up as a hood over his head against the weather . |
| 19 | She pressed the only button , and the cage was drawn up into the heart of City Hall . |
| 20 | With loop-in wiring , the wires are labelled carefully , and drawn up into the space above the ceiling , where they should be reconnected in a junction box , in exactly the same way that they were connected in the ceiling rose , and a cable taken from this junction box to the light fitting through the hole in the ceiling ( if the new light fitting is in the same place ) . |
| 21 | The new measures , similar to those in force in Britain and the US , were drawn up over the summer by Mr Lang 's Ministry , which is said to be interested in extending the French insurance model to the whole of Europe . |
| 22 | We have now had in this country in the post war years six or seven ‘ contracts ’ drawn up between the triumvirate of the corporate state . |
| 23 | Both the agreements and the plans drawn up between the King of Scotia and the Normans at the start of the winter began to be implemented , and the camp at Scone became empty . |
| 24 | The direction of the campaign moved towards a broader ‘ popular front ’ to be drawn up between the left in Britain , France and the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | Its original boundaries were drawn up without the benefit of any systematic survey ; no LFA land was de-designated when the UK LFA was substantially extended early in 1984 to include the so-called marginal land . |
| 26 | When a plan drawn up during a period of supply crisis fails to analyse thoroughly the question of the balance of supply and demand this of course is no ‘ external ’ defect , no ‘ formal ’ omission , but a profoundly internal fault . |
| 27 | The Convention was drawn up under the aegis of the Pompidou Group [ see pp. 37394 ; 35127 ] and would enter into force once ratified by three signatories . |
| 28 | He was on the airport tarmac waiting for me , his Mercedes sports drawn up to the foot of the mobile steps . |
| 29 | A local budget can be drawn up with a degree of devolved responsibility . |
| 30 | To show the client what you are proposing , commercials are sometimes read and described ; sometimes a narrative tape is recorded which is a spoken description of the action , perhaps backed by music ; or sometimes a " story board " is drawn up with a number of key frames illustrating what viewers will see on the TV screen . |