Example sentences of "drawn [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working with Thirkell , Pilger had drawn up sample pages of a new design , using gobbledegook text except for the headlines . |
| 2 | ANGRY managers have drawn up contingency plans to keep an Essex port running if dockers vote for an all-out strike , it was revealed last night . |
| 3 | Together we 've drawn up training programmes and as I write ( 22 Jan ) an eight week seminar ( one evening per week ) is in progress . |
| 4 | What was intended by the supplier had not in fact materialised , because the case had been tried on correspondence rather than a correctly drawn up agreement . |
| 5 | The siren began to waver and died on a single drawn out discord . |
| 6 | But one that has had the error beep replaced by a robotic voice screaming ‘ Attention ! ’ is likely to have the opposite effect , as is one that ingests a floppy disc accompanied by a long drawn out grumble taken from a soggy passage in the Star Wars trilogy . |
| 7 | During the long drawn out hostage crisis the American people had watched impotently , wondering how it was that a nation with the supposed military capability to wipe Russia off the map at the push of a button could do nothing . |
| 8 | Settlement can be a drawn out affair and can take as long as six months or more from the time your debt became overdue . |
| 9 | It 's a long and drawn out affair — one minute of cartoon can take weeks to build . |
| 10 | This could be a long drawn out affair of up to eight hours or more . |
| 11 | The club wanted Macari in place for Wednesday 's UEFA Cup tie against Sporting Lisbon but it seems only a resignation letter from the Stoke City manager will pave the way for a speedy conclusion to what 's becoming a long drawn out affair . |
| 12 | The next major development at the airport looks increasingly likely to involve the construction of a second runway , although the need to take into account environmental factors and possible objections from some bodies could make the planning process a fairly drawn out affair . |
| 13 | And salvation is not a long drawn out affair it 's not something we have to go through all sorts of processes to se , to finally achieve it , it 's there as God 's free gift waiting to be received . |
| 14 | As he said it the bellowing roar came again , right on top of them , and a long drawn out scream in Russian . |
| 15 | The long , drawn out battle between capitalism and Socialism is in the short and medium term a battle for influence and opinion . |
| 16 | Einstein licked his wounds after his long drawn out battle with Bohr about the uncertainty principle . |
| 17 | they , they were seeing as being an , a longer drawn out struggle |
| 18 | The softgrained , ponderous opening sets the tone for a lifeless , long drawn out haul . |
| 19 | It would seem from what you 've told me that the market share is on the low side of a monopolization case and that kind of case to begin with is always a complicated and long drawn out case . |
| 20 | Help has come partly from donations , but cash for a resistance movement in a drawn out conflict could come from the Kuwait investment office ; it has a hundred billion dollars in foreign assets . |
| 21 | A long , drawn out breath escaped her lungs . |
| 22 | I mean often actually producing pieces of writing is , is , is quite a , you know , sort of long drawn out sort of er iterative process I suppose in , in mathematical terms erm you know you kind of go through it again and again erm I mean that 's one thing you ca but obviously that 's quite time consuming er |
| 23 | The long drawn out war in South Africa did much to discredit imperial adventuring . |
| 24 | He had married the daughters of several important Muslim chiefs and was in frequent communication with the " Mad Mullah " in Somaliland , supplying him with rifles and ammunition to help in his long drawn out war against the British . |
| 25 | Whatever I read would have been to the accompaniment of music — one of my three favourite composers , Beethoven , Mozart or Schubert — and a long drawn out glass or two of post-prandial port . |
| 26 | It should be a long drawn out process . |
| 27 | Very long , drawn out process . |
| 28 | That 's only because you 're looking at it in a very short- term perspective , they , the way they saw the communist revolution was by a very long drawn out process and so it was n't that the revolution had just created this was , this was an important step in order to lead to their ultimate goal . |
| 29 | Not like a drawn out television programme , you know ? |