Example sentences of "[was/were] draw [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | With competition becoming intense the first set of Motor Racing rules were drawn up for the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris race of 1898 . |
| 7 | Within half an hour of leaving Rockford , the convoy had reached its destination and were drawn up on the verge alongside the perimeter fence , just short of the big front gates of Bethlehem House . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At first potential jurors were classified by ethnic group and caste , but after the 1840s they were assigned to one of three lists which were drawn up on the basis of language capability . |
| 10 | When we reached the hospital , four cars and a Land Rover were drawn up at the bungalow . |
| 11 | Their skirts were drawn up to the crotch , the heels high , the legs bare , the skin chafed by the cold . |
| 12 | The new measures , similar to those in force in Britain and the US , were drawn up over the summer by Mr Lang 's Ministry , which is said to be interested in extending the French insurance model to the whole of Europe . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These new procedures were drawn up by the company itself , according to the council 's senior counsel . |
| 15 | National guidelines were drawn up after the Cairngorms tragedy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Other women were drawn on to the paper , but as on It they were supposed to know their place . |
| 18 | Having worked out the general layout , the main outlines of the plants and substrates and so on were drawn in with the washes of the appropriate colours . |
| 19 | This Progressive influence lingered on as a minor theme in the cinema of the 1920s and was an obvious outlet for the continental directors who were drawn in by the glamour and potential of Hollywood . |
| 20 | All of them were drawn together on the basis of a conviction similar to our own that God was calling them to something new . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As Ashi dressed swiftly her eyes were drawn back to the carriage clock . |
| 24 | Her eyes were drawn back to the set , where Dane was still holding court . |
| 25 | The curtains were drawn back to the sound of a hurdy-gurdy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He was drawing up outside the hall when he thought of Graham Young . |
| 28 | The sea was drawing off across the foreshore — leaving acre after acre of rocks — with a long series of hollow roars , diminishing , diminuendo on diminuendo . |
| 29 | Rory , still crushed , his face warmed by the flavoured breath of Arthur Dooley , was drawn backwards from the fray , inexorably . |
| 30 | 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 . |