Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] draw [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly at first , then ever more rapidly , she was drawn out across the lake . |
| 2 | She was drawn unquestionably to the appearance of things , though she was aware that she had as yet much ground to cover , and that she had followed many a false trail ; she remembered with particular regret the quantities of eyeshadow which she had once thought desirable , and the pendant earrings of the same epoch . |
| 3 | They were drawing closer to the barrier now and Donna began looking for Julie , praying that her sister was waiting , hardly daring to contemplate what she would do if she was n't . |
| 4 | They walked in the deer park and its surrounding beech woods ; they followed the lanes to Putsham , Holford and Crowcombe ; and they were drawn repeatedly to the sea at Kilve and into the Quantocks . |
| 5 | All of them were drawn together on the basis of a conviction similar to our own that God was calling them to something new . |
| 6 | As I recall , he had not been initially so preoccupied with the peace treaty when it was drawn up at the end of the Great War , and I think it is fair to say that his interest was prompted not so much by an analysis of the treaty , but by his friendship with Herr Karl-Heinz Bremann . |
| 7 | He was drawing up outside the hall when he thought of Graham Young . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes … and although he himself wanted the contemplative life , he was drawn out into the world and given the episcopate of Strathclyde , at Glasgow , when he was twenty-five years old . |