Example sentences of "[was/were] draw [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When we reached the hospital , four cars and a Land Rover were drawn up at the bungalow . |
| 9 | Their skirts were drawn up to the crotch , the heels high , the legs bare , the skin chafed by the cold . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These new procedures were drawn up by the company itself , according to the council 's senior counsel . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Other women were drawn on to the paper , but as on It they were supposed to know their place . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | All of them were drawn together on the basis of a conviction similar to our own that God was calling them to something new . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As Ashi dressed swiftly her eyes were drawn back to the carriage clock . |
| 19 | Her eyes were drawn back to the set , where Dane was still holding court . |
| 20 | The curtains were drawn back to the sound of a hurdy-gurdy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was drawing up outside the hall when he thought of Graham Young . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Rory , still crushed , his face warmed by the flavoured breath of Arthur Dooley , was drawn backwards from the fray , inexorably . |
| 25 | On 10 November 1921 , a new agreement was drawn up between the Company and Croydon Corporation for maintenance of track within the Borough and to permit the construction of a curve at the top of Tamworth Road , only to be used for the transfer of cars . |
| 26 | The Convention was drawn up under the aegis of the Pompidou Group [ see pp. 37394 ; 35127 ] and would enter into force once ratified by three signatories . |
| 27 | She pressed the only button , and the cage was drawn up into the heart of City Hall . |
| 28 | Ellis declined to say how much the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club is being paid for the service , but this is not money which British racing is missing out on , as a contract , subject to review after three years , was drawn up with the Racecourse Association at the beginning of SIS transmission . |
| 29 | In June 1991 , a draft welfare charter was drawn up at the University of Witwatersrand recommending that ‘ free and compulsory education until the age of 16 be introduced ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |