Example sentences of "drew [art] " in BNC.

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1 He pushed the pad aside , drew the typewriter towards him and began to type again , squinting down at his friend s tiny handwriting .
2 Invited me to his reading tomorrow , I drew the line at that .
3 Goldberg , pushing aside pad and pen , drew the little typewriter towards him and began to type again .
4 Do not think , he wrote , then pushed the pad aside , emptied his glass of orange juice and drew the typewriter to him .
5 She drew the curtains .
6 Later minuets drew the shape of an ‘ S ’ as the footwork began to flow more easily .
7 In a brief ceremony yesterday evening , Timman and Yusupov drew the white pieces for today 's opening games .
8 Notwithstanding , Mr Quiles commissioned a report into strategies for reform and its controversial recommendations , made public at the beginning of last month , immediately drew the wrath of the unions .
9 The match , staged at Sheffield United 's ground , drew the day 's best League attendance of 8,000 .
10 In one of his congress speeches , Mr Nyers drew the curious analogy with the collapse of the Fourth Republic in France , and ‘ democracy ’ by General de Gaulle .
11 And as Friday 13th drew the week to a close , City computer users viewed their screens nervously .
12 Since this was the first coronation to be televised to a nation , Ramsey was suddenly famous among the people of England ; all the more so because the vast head , baldness girt by flowing white locks , mobile expressive eyebrows , and waddling gait drew the attention of millions of viewers .
13 By 1908 , when he saw that his stipulation was ruled out by the failure of British immigrants and the Liberal acceleration of colonial self-government — soon to be followed by South African union — he unhesitatingly drew the correct conclusion :
14 Our Dean drew the ice-free peg and never caught for the first hour , as I predicted .
15 I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’
16 With Diana in the snow , Charles looked distinctly unamused and drew the session to a close .
17 When they were back in the office again , Sister Cooney drew the matter down .
18 And at the end , Conlon drew the one hopeful conclusion : ‘ If this stops capital punishment ever coming back , the time I 've spent in prison will be well worth it .
19 Hall kept him moving and gradually drew the sting from his opponent 's game .
20 Baddeley is now 28 , four years older than his rival , and Hall kept him moving until he drew the sting from his opponent 's game .
21 Nick Simmons , manager of the AA Roadwatch nerve centre at Stanmore , Middlesex , hastily pointed out yesterday that those who drew the short straw for Christmas duty could just as easily have been men .
22 Thus it was that a caddish cub reporter from the Cricklewood Cricket drew the following response : ‘ A quarter of my age in years multiplied by a fifth of my age in years multiplied by a forty-fifth of my age in years gives my age in years . ’
23 In answer to one such question , he replied that he was pleased to say that he was now being given full support by the unions which drew the sharp retort … .
24 She had asked to borrow his pyjama bottoms but he drew the line at that .
25 He drew the curtains and went straight towards the bed .
26 Charles drew the bedclothes around him .
27 This drew the comment from Bertrand Russell that both East and West did not really want disarmament .
28 It drew the hungry child from his bed to the landing , where he glanced nervously at the Bogeyman 's room before creeping on tip-toe along the strip of faded carpet .
29 Next came a stomach-churning visit to the Snake Temple , where I actually held a snake very briefly , but drew the line at having it photographed around my neck !
30 Naturally , Reynard started there , drew the first blank , which did n't disconcert him ( he would have been disappointed by an easy discovery anyway ) and composed himself to delve deeper , perhaps taking it backwards a month at a time , beginning with Malamute 's employment with Club Eleusis .
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