Example sentences of "to draw a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connor went off to draw a couple of pints behind the bar , as Ruth shook hands with the young man . |
| 2 | Some of the features of alcoholism in its terminal phase are so well known that a cartoonist has only to draw a couple of lines for everyone to know that the subject is a " drunk " . |
| 3 | Even here in Princeton ( only about 7,500 students ) the soccer team managed to draw a couple of thousand people to watch their first round end of season game . |
| 4 | One elderly Palestinian in Beirut wanted to draw a map of his olive grove for me and spent ten minutes sketching and re-sketching the roads south of Jaffa . |
| 5 | to draw a map of the conceptual structure of the area in question by assuming that key words which often occur together represent closely related concepts . |
| 6 | In order to draw a map on Mercator 's projection the features forming the map must be digitized ; that is , the latitude and longitude of a set of points located along coastlines , rivers and other features must be known . |
| 7 | At the end of the lesson the excitable Dutchman got hold of a piece of chalk and began to draw a cliff on the board . |
| 8 | To draw a conchoid of a straight line : |
| 9 | Toby eased himself out of his chair and proceeded to draw a pint for Dominic . |
| 10 | One suspects that somewhere along the line of the story 's forming there has been some attempt to draw a veil over the proceedings , and to protect the reputation particularly of the great Moses . |
| 11 | The food is dumpling-based , substantial , and it would be kinder to draw a veil over the indigenous wine lake . |
| 12 | It looked as if Luke 's pride had allowed him to draw a veil over last night 's final moments , and she was grateful for it . |
| 13 | The twist to this story is that it was only when the gods lost patience and threatened to draw a veil of darkness across the proceedings , leaving me stranded high and wet ( and rather chilled ) on one of the most rugged landscapes in the land , that I at last took the chance and accepted the offer that had been proffered . |
| 14 | And if we can just er just go back just for for one minute , just to draw a bit of before you were captured , er and whatnot , could you tell us just a little bit about the living conditions that you had when you were actually at the front . |
| 15 | And when someone said of a close relative , ‘ He 's a doorkeeper ’ , he was careful to make plain that his father or uncle did not need to work , but liked to get out of the house to chat with other old men and to draw a salary for it , rather than a pension . |
| 16 | Expansion south towards the nearby colony of Maryland went on fast enough for a pair of surveyors , Mason and Dixon , to have to draw a boundary between the two in 1702 , though this line was not completely accepted for some decades . |
| 17 | He could still smell the scent of wet skin , and feel the weight of Pie'oh'pah 's body on his hips , this so persuasive he had an erection apparent enough to draw a stare from one of the stewardesses . |
| 18 | We 're going to draw a hexagon inside the circle . |
| 19 | Write out and compare sets of factors to find the H.C.F. of 1 6 and 9 2 12 and 18 3 14 and 21 4 10 and 15 5 16 and 24 6 18 and 27 7 12 and 36 8 24 and 32 Another way of showing common factors of two numbers is to draw a diagram of the sets . |
| 20 | But it does n't take much to draw a smile from him , and almost everything in the country — especially its people — provides material for his humour . |
| 21 | One consequence of the exclusive pursuit of the selfish and self-indulgent ethos of the naked fabliau is that the Shipman 's Tale , unlike the majority of the French fabliaux , contains no concluding moral , ending instead on the selfish prayer : The failure of a moral to appear here is emphasized by the fact that the Host immediately tries to draw a moral from the tale — an appropriately pragmatic one : It could and has been held that the Shipman 's Tale is thereby amoral . |
| 22 | To draw a parabola with an included angle exceeding 140° , draw two straight lines and mark on each a series of equal intervals . |
| 23 | But there is another , perhaps rather less obvious , reason to avoid candid recording which is associated with the subject 's self-image and is most easily understood by continuing to draw a parallel with photography . |
| 24 | One station in the practical circus included a task requiring pupils to draw a rectangle of a specified area . |
| 25 | In defining the program image and writing the documentation the designer has to draw a balance in all these dimensions , informed by development trials in the classroom . |
| 26 | Not good form to leave Erlich alone in his office , but his safe was locked , and the drawers of his desk were locked , and he wanted to get to Accounts before they closed , to draw a float before setting off . |
| 27 | Robert had used pastels to draw a group of earthenware pots and jugs . |
| 28 | In contrast , the few children who kept in touch with a birth parent or members of the birth family seemed to draw a lot of satisfaction from occasional communications or meetings . |
| 29 | It is this concern of an actor to build a character and to extend his own emotional repertoire which puts the above attempt to draw a comparison between dramatic playing and performance into a proper perspective . |
| 30 | It 's possible to draw a comparison between York and the National Parks : some countryside campaigners feel that the city has over-promoted itself in terms of business opportunities and pleasant surroundings . |