Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] draw [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zen was instinctively drawn towards the one area of disorder , a desk piled with leaflets , envelopes , magazines , newspapers , letters and bills . |
| 2 | This team was largely drawn from the former municipal tramways and included G. V. Stanley and L. Marriott from Croydon Corporation . |
| 3 | On receiving my September issue of Golf Monthly , my attention was immediately drawn to the ‘ Queue or Quit ’ article . |
| 4 | Isabel heard herself ask the question but her attention was suddenly drawn to the servant setting food and trenchers on the table . |
| 5 | Attention was often drawn to the need to develop continuity within curriculum areas and between school and school . |
| 6 | When legislative change was being considered , attention was often drawn to the so-called ‘ perverse incentive ’ that saved local services money if they supported people in residential care rather than in their own homes . |
| 7 | Britain by then had been at war with Germany for two years , but the Soviet Union was only drawn into the conflict in June by a sudden German invasion , whilst the US entered the war in December after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . |
| 8 | He chose a subject for his PhD — the idea of the Sublime in Romantic poetics — which sounded reassuringly serious to the traditionalists and off-puttingly dry to the Young Turks , but which neither party knew much about , so Charles was not drawn into the front-line controversy in his own research . |
| 9 | Like much of the rest of the Continent , Muscovy was gradually drawing on the example of dynamic elements in the countries of the Atlantic seaboard . |
| 10 | William was invariably drawn to the darkness , finding a deeper , more complex truth in the world of myth and superstition ; to the ‘ poor mad nuns down the convent ’ ; to the world of Mother Bernard and her visions of Hell and Damnation ; to the demons and the shadows … |
| 11 | In the first two years of this period President Milton Obote 's party , the United People 's Congress ( UPC ) formed a coalition with the Kabaka Yekka ( KY ) Party whose support was entirely drawn from the Buganda people , and whose ultimate loyalty was to the kabaka who was also appointed President of Uganda . |