Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | Individual ramblers were drawn principally from the upper echelons of Victorian society , mainly aesthetes , academics and members of the legal profession . |
| 5 | These teams were drawn together in the European Championship in West Germany last year , when England lost to the other two . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their skirts were drawn up to the crotch , the heels high , the legs bare , the skin chafed by the cold . |
| 8 | The curtains were drawn back to the sound of a hurdy-gurdy . |
| 9 | These new procedures were drawn up by the company itself , according to the council 's senior counsel . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Its original boundaries were drawn up without the benefit of any systematic survey ; no LFA land was de-designated when the UK LFA was substantially extended early in 1984 to include the so-called marginal land . |
| 13 | The boundaries were drawn up for the Directive on a Commune by Commune basis with the vast majority of Communes being entirely allocated to one or other LFA zone . |
| 14 | With competition becoming intense the first set of Motor Racing rules were drawn up for the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris race of 1898 . |
| 15 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 16 | A few fishing boats sat in the lagoon , some outrigger canoes were drawn up on the sand and one small pleasure yacht , which must have come from another island , was anchored to a buoy . |
| 17 | Other women were drawn on to the paper , but as on It they were supposed to know their place . |