Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] were draw [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We entered the room and Mum began to look round , but my eyes were drawn to the bed . |
| 2 | I saw white wool carpets on the gleaming floor and also glimpsed clothing of the costliest taffeta , lace and cambric , but my eyes were drawn to the great silk-draped four-poster bed . |
| 3 | Persons in close contact with them at work or at their houses were drawn from the majority population for ‘ security reasons ’ . |
| 4 | Situated in Mayfair , directly across the park from her own house , its clients were drawn from the highest echelons of society . |
| 5 | Despite a flaring anger at this impertinence her eyes were drawn to the strong column of his throat as he swallowed . |
| 6 | Her eyes were drawn by the stone immediately . |
| 7 | Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road . |
| 8 | Where such projects did produce their ‘ fair return ’ ( a minimum of 5 per cent ) , their tenants were drawn from the relatively prosperous upper working class of artisans , and not from the truly indigent for whom they were intended . |
| 9 | Its members were drawn from the North and South ( including oil exporters ) . |
| 10 | Even before 1905 a large minority and probably even a majority of their members were drawn from the lower classes . |
| 11 | Reggae was a poor man 's music and its themes were drawn from the ghettoes of Trenchtown , Jamaica . |
| 12 | Its priests were drawn from the ruling houses of the tribes , many of whose sons became Druids , and sometimes even the kings themselves , as in the case of Diviacus , the friend of Caesar . |
| 13 | Our stories were drawn from the fringes of science , the environmental front line and Californian whackiness . |