Example sentences of "was draw [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the year of the Queen 's Silver Jubilee and the Prince , just twenty-nine , was drawing to the end of his first year as a full-time working member of the ‘ family firm ’ . |
| 2 | The single most difficult thing I found when using the Grafpad was to remember whether I was drawing on the screen or mapping the attributes . |
| 3 | She had come to the beginning of the shelters now , which meant that she was drawing near the pier . |
| 4 | This portrait was drawn at the time . |
| 5 | PRIME Ministerial blood was drawn for the first time in the election campaign yesterday when Mr Major was hit by an egg thrown from close range . |
| 6 | And John Henry was drawn on the outside in the starting gate at number 12 . |
| 7 | ‘ Today , he was able to be dropped in behind , whereas last year when he ran third in the Tiffany Highflyer , he was drawn on the far side in a 30-runner race and Steve [ Cauthen ] had to ride him handy to the pace , ’ Stoute said . |
| 8 | Although Boardwalk was drawn on the inside , Kelly hoped to get a good enough break to be able to settle third or fourth . |
| 9 | The chart was drawn on the spot and left with the parents . |
| 10 | And he was drawn to the grace and violence to be found among his Cossacks . |
| 11 | He was drawn to the work of IPTA ( Indian People 's Theatre Association ) , a cultural wing of the Communist Party of India , and worked with it as an actor — playwright — director till 1954 . |
| 12 | Richard Baxter was drawn to the people of Kidderminster as much as they were drawn to him . |
| 13 | But her eye was drawn to the flask . |
| 14 | Having read this I was drawn to the words of the Apostle Paul when he wrote ‘ But when the fulness of time was come , God sent forth his Son , made of a woman , made under the law , to redeem them that were under the law , that we might receive the adoption of sons . ’ |
| 15 | So you can imagine my excitement when my attention was drawn to the small print in the back of Screen International , the film industry 's weekly newspaper . |
| 16 | Once his attention was drawn to the bending , the child dismantled the tower but before he could rebuild it properly , the teacher challenged him to build another bent tower . |
| 17 | When she had to set a plate before him she could smell pomade on his hair , and her gaze was drawn to the long , clever hands which had once touched her body so intimately and unprofessionally . |
| 18 | In the evenings everyone was drawn to the blazing log fire in the entrance hall , where Sister Margaret recounted the history of Don Basco and the Salesians , and of the house at Brettargh Holt . |
| 19 | In Chapter 1 attention was drawn to the tangle of relationships within which carers and cared may be enmeshed . |
| 20 | Here , attention was drawn to the dominance of a sub-culture of child abuse expertise into which many professionals working in the field are socialised in different ways . |
| 21 | Her attention was drawn to the radio once again . |
| 22 | It is time that more attention was drawn to the contribution of the SBS to the war in the Mediterranean ; what better way than to republish this first class account . |
| 23 | He was drawn to the traditions of Sephardism , he had once explained ; that rigorous and secluded tradition appealed to his own sensibility , in the same way that " free-thinking " Jews seemed to him to come too close to the rational Unitarianism which he despised . |
| 24 | Attention was drawn to the proline-rich regions of Sos1 as potential SH3 binding sites by the mapping of other SH3 binding sites to proline-rich domains . |
| 25 | ‘ No , you should n't have , ’ Katherine echoed , but her hand was drawn to the cool translucent stone , a stark primordial form with its blind but all-seeing eyes intense in their repose . |
| 26 | Again her attention was drawn to the roll of rubber sheeting . |
| 27 | Her eye was drawn to the models on the benches . |
| 28 | 23–4–1875 The attention of the Session was drawn to the desirability of having the children brought together on the Sabbath in a central place and they agreed to give the subject further consideration . |
| 29 | Once the Origin of Species had converted the scientific world to a basic acceptance of evolutionism , biologists ' attention was drawn to the problem of reconstructing the history of life on earth . |
| 30 | Females under 18 years of age were recommended as particularly suitable for non-custodial sentences , and attention was drawn to the strengthening of supervision orders for juveniles in the Children 's Act of 1989 . |