Example sentences of "drew [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the misery of those who could not obtain their release , either honestly or dishonestly , by appearing before an Insolvent Debtors Court and agreeing to assign their property , still drew sympathy . |
| 2 | Barcelona had already been refused a penalty , but they soon drew level through Julio Salinas , the deceptively inelegant striker who has taken Gary Lineker 's reluctant ill-fitted role on the right wing and , on Saturday , made such a good job of it that he might have had a hat-trick but for Francisco Buyo 's reflexes . |
| 3 | Mungo drew level . |
| 4 | The crews were still rowing well but as Cambridge 's bend began to end , Oxford drew level again . |
| 5 | Barnes kicked two more penalty goals to put Bath 15–9 ahead in the second half but Gloucester fought back and drew level again with two more goals by Smith . |
| 6 | Leicester drew level after 19 minutes through Oldfield , who landed a 25-yard volley after the home team only half cleared a corner from Wright . |
| 7 | However , Tottenham drew level on 71 minutes after Durie 's powerful run allowed Walsh to slip the ball to the unmarked Gray to score his first goal for the club . |
| 8 | I waited for her to erupt as the ear-splitting entourage drew level . |
| 9 | He seemed to be talking to himself , and as he drew level he glanced suddenly in her direction . |
| 10 | I did not think I noticed as the car drew level |
| 11 | Cardiff retained eye contact with the blond man as he drew level . |
| 12 | Cardiff looked long and hard at Rohmer as Duvall drew level , reinforcing his authority . |
| 13 | ‘ Duvall ? ’ snapped Rohmer as they drew level . |
| 14 | Duvall stopped momentarily when Barbara and Cardiff drew level . |
| 15 | When we drew level the six of us did a protracted and violent Mexican wave , screaming at the tops of our lungs and behaving like the thugs we are . |
| 16 | They drew level after 77 minutes , courtesy of a neat snap shot from Brian Donaghy and the floodgates opened . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I do n't like Men phoning who wo n't give their name , ’ she said as I drew level . |
| 18 | When he drew level she said , ‘ They left me a house and all the fruits of their labour . |
| 19 | A man of character , he was always able to give one-hundred per cent effort for his club and his team and as a winger ( in a football age when wingers were as plentiful as mid-field players are today ) , endowed with skills which drew admiration from press , colleagues , supporters and opponents alike , throughout his career . |
| 20 | For several square yards the sand was quite invisible for blue butterflies , opening and closing their wings as they drew moisture from a small spring dampening the sand . |
| 21 | The king himself was not paid ( although Edward Balliol , ‘ king ’ of Scots , drew payment both in times of war and peace ) but dukes received 13s. 4d ; earls 6s. 8d ; knights-baneret 4s ; knights-bachelor 2s ; and esquires 1s ; these last sums corresponding proportionately to the amount each might expect to spend on a horse ( as outlined above ) whose value was agreed in advance , so that compensation for its loss could be paid by the crown . |
| 22 | A silence grew on the line , a vacuum that drew loathing and dread towards it in a soundless rush . |
| 23 | The urban working class in an occupational area which had traditionally been dominated by Protestants , the petite bourgeoisie , and evangelical Protestants ; these are the constituencies from which UPA drew support . |
| 24 | And what , thought reformers , could be more effective in pursuit of this goal than to inculcate in young workers the values of citizenship — a popular doctrine which drew support from all political perspectives ? |
| 25 | Marx maintained that the human consciousness which could project this refracted religious self-image must be a ‘ false consciousness ’ , profoundly alienated from itself ; that it had been brought into this state by the development of divisions within human society between the different social and economic classes ; that religion served in that situation as an ‘ ideology ’ , a system of beliefs functioning to support the established order , and an ‘ opium ’ which would keep the proletariat passive in the face of their oppression and exploitation by diverting their attention and hopes to another world and its promised rewards ; that it was not enough for the philosopher to understand and diagnose this situation , but that he must go on to change it ; and that this involved moving back from Feuerbach 's ‘ critique of heaven ’ to a fresh ‘ critique of earth ’ , of economics , politics and society in general , with the aim of changing the structures of the established order and overcoming the forces of division and alienation which both produced religion and drew support from it . |
| 26 | Antisemitism also drew support in both countries from working-class people disturbed by the impact of industrialism and large-scale capitalism , and possibly because of the success of big business houses with Jewish names . |
| 27 | It drew support from a wide area in South-east England , and there were associated outbreaks in other parts of the country , ranging from York and Scarborough in the North-east , to the Wirral in the North-west , and to Bridgwater and Ilchester in Somerset . |
| 28 | If Country Jacobitism had for a time in the early 1690s represented an alliance of disillusioned Whigs and Tories , it nevertheless ended up as a platform which drew support almost exclusively from Tories . |
| 29 | He drew support from Serbs like Dragan Krpovic , a foreman in a power station close to the main Kosovo town of Pristina . |
| 30 | At Steeple Claydon , on the other hand , where nine land assessments compare with only three actual freeholders , there were some fifty inhabitants all told , of whom only four drew income from land.l Either custom or convention hereabouts militated against subletting , or officials in the Buckingham hundreds ignored land that was not freehold , for far fewer owners were recorded there than in the remainder of the county . |