Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] draw [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | National guidelines were drawn up after the Cairngorms tragedy . |
| 2 | As Ashi dressed swiftly her eyes were drawn back to the carriage clock . |
| 3 | Her eyes were drawn back to the set , where Dane was still holding court . |
| 4 | Her glance was drawn back to the bed again when , clearly befuddled , and with no idea how he came to be where he was , he slurred , ‘ How did I get here ? ’ |
| 5 | This precise and disheartening indictment was drawn up by the late Dr Enid Starkie , Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford , and Flaubert 's most exhaustive British biographer . |
| 6 | Following the other girl 's fixed gaze , Anita noticed that a large black chauffeur-driven limousine was drawing up to the edge of the road . |
| 7 | Individual ramblers were drawn principally from the upper echelons of Victorian society , mainly aesthetes , academics and members of the legal profession . |
| 8 | His designs for Hagley Hall were drawn out by the architect John Sanderson , the Warwick Shire Hall was executed by the well-known mason-architects William and David Hiorne , who described themselves as its ‘ surveyors ’ as well as its ‘ builders ’ , and he had as his regular assistant a mason called William Hitchcox . |
| 9 | Slowly , Aenarion was drawn down into the daemon 's innards . |
| 10 | Though the official figures are not easy to interpret it seems that at the outbreak of the Seven Years War about half its manpower was drawn either from the jails of London and other cities or from the crews of foreign ships . |
| 11 | When we reached the hospital , four cars and a Land Rover were drawn up at the bungalow . |
| 12 | But Ruth 's eye was drawn back to the great tower of rock , and on the very top , high above , she seemed to see a jut of walls and pinnacles , glimmering like hard edges of light . |
| 13 | The general was drawn directly into the invasion of the Philippines and plans to invade Japan . |
| 14 | His attention was drawn away from the rain-streaked windows by the sound of Gilbert 's voice , again nervously asking questions of Rohmer . |
| 15 | But Cardiff 's attention was drawn back to the wall . |
| 16 | She pressed the only button , and the cage was drawn up into the heart of City Hall . |
| 17 | A form of rich picture was drawn up following the initial investigations , but it was used mainly as a summary of the structures , staffing levels and other essentially static factors that existed in the situation , and not as the basis for selecting a relevant system . |
| 18 | These teams were drawn together in the European Championship in West Germany last year , when England lost to the other two . |
| 19 | He had advocated electricity nationalisation in the 1930s , and during the War ( as the TUC were drawn increasingly into the government consultative machine ) had distinguished himself as an administrator and committee-man of high repute with members of all political parties . |
| 20 | Its formation may have owed something to the traditional structure of the peasant commune ; its unity and authority were enhanced by the absence of firmly entrenched separate trade unions ; and its electoral procedure was drawn directly from the experience of the Shidlovsky Commission . |
| 21 | Nu was drawn strongly to the Chinese struggle against Japan and paid a visit to China under KMT auspices . |
| 22 | Keith was able to appoint officers even to the coveted rank of captain , which was in that period for all practical purposes the ultimate promotion , since admirals were drawn automatically from the more senior members of the captains ' list . |
| 23 | Its first director was Lord Rothschild and its staff was drawn both from the civil service and from outside Whitehall . |
| 24 | In June 1991 , a draft welfare charter was drawn up at the University of Witwatersrand recommending that ‘ free and compulsory education until the age of 16 be introduced ’ . |
| 25 | Controls matched for age and sex were drawn randomly from the same population at risk , including deaths , out migrants , and in migrants . |
| 26 | Their skirts were drawn up to the crotch , the heels high , the legs bare , the skin chafed by the cold . |
| 27 | The curtains were drawn back to the sound of a hurdy-gurdy . |
| 28 | These new procedures were drawn up by the company itself , according to the council 's senior counsel . |
| 29 | As she stepped out on to the third floor , her dark brows were drawn together in the beginnings of a frown because she was still thinking of that last conversation . |
| 30 | Its 60 members were drawn equally from the Parliament and the Congress of Estonia , a 495-member body elected as a pressure group in March 1990 by citizens of pre-war Estonia and their descendants . |