Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] draw [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Possibly due to my lack of marquetry expertise I was drawn towards the three veneer section , and E.J. Higgs ‘ Light Music ’ ( left ) won third prize in the class . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was drawn by the likeness between you . |
| 5 | And now Vincent could realise another of his dreams , which was to draw from the nude in heated premises . |
| 6 | Between these pilasters are still visible the corbels upon which were supported the masts of the velarium which was drawn across the auditorium . |
| 7 | Its staff , which was drawn from the Board and the East India Company , were considered to be part of the Home Civil Service , but there were two important differences from the other departments . |
| 8 | You 've said before that you were put off trumpet , and that you were drawn to the guitar because it was the instrument that your parents most feared . |
| 9 | She had come to the beginning of the shelters now , which meant that she was drawing near the pier . |
| 10 | She was drawn towards the resilience of a man who offered the possibility of providing something which had eluded her during childhood — the exclusive love of a parent . |
| 11 | Most striking was the case of the young Tatar Muslim , Mir Sajit Sultan Galiev , who was drawn into the work of the commissions , becoming one of Stalin 's assistants . |
| 12 | When I woke in the morning , we were drawing into the bank . |
| 13 | But we were drawn by the Romantic taste in scenery , what Bertrand Russell called ‘ wild torrents , fearful precipices , pathless forests , thunderstorms and generally what is useless , destructive and violent ’ . |
| 14 | In Sunday 's final we were drawn in the outside lane . |
| 15 | However , the Committee did emphasize the need for a much wider range of accommodation than had been provided before the war , and so they were drawn into the sharp debate about densities and preferences as between flats and houses — and this is where the link with the Ministry of Town and Country Planning proved so important . |
| 16 | Both inevitably confronted , and were indeed dominated by , the problem of the differences between different human groups and ( as they were drawn into the evolutionist model ) , the problem of the descent of man and of different types of society , of which the bourgeois world appeared unquestionably the highest . |
| 17 | In many repects the bishops of the Merovingian kingdom were like secular magnates , and for the most part they were drawn from the same class . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was because she 'd already seen countless admiring female eyes slide in his direction ; even though they apparently had n't recognised him in his goggles and ski-hat , still they were drawn by the sheer animal magnetism of the man . |
| 19 | The problem was that rather than landing Portuguese champion club Cascais in the semis they were drawn against the Saltires in a re-run of last year 's final . |
| 20 | In the fifteenth century London remained under merchant rule : all but 6 of the 88 men who were mayor during it were drawn from the 6 greatest companies , the mercers , grocers , drapers , fishmongers , goldsmiths and skinners . |
| 21 | Then it was drawn into the light cast by a battery of exterior spot lamps . |
| 22 | The blade flashed as it was drawn over the leather . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | And he was drawn to the grace and violence to be found among his Cossacks . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Dowling himself was an irregular , a member of the Old Catholic Church , a splinter group that did not recognize the supremacy of Rome ; he was drawn into the cause as a result of saying house Masses for expatriate Nicaraguans in San Francisco . |
| 28 | As he was drawn towards the Eye the terror-struck Rincewind raised the box protectively , and at the same time heard the picture imp say , ‘ They 're about ripe now , ca n't hold them any longer . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Each month lots were drawn for the names of the next families to leave , and the fortunate ones were given only a short time to make their final preparations . |