Example sentences of "[was/were] draw [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Individual ramblers were drawn principally from the upper echelons of Victorian society , mainly aesthetes , academics and members of the legal profession . |
| 3 | These teams were drawn together in the European Championship in West Germany last year , when England lost to the other two . |
| 4 | The RCM prided itself on a broad-minded approach to religion This suited the collective temperament of the ruling body , which was drawn largely from the liberal branch of Judaism , and made sense in terms of practical politics . |
| 5 | Nu was drawn strongly to the Chinese struggle against Japan and paid a visit to China under KMT auspices . |
| 6 | Its first director was Lord Rothschild and its staff was drawn both from the civil service and from outside Whitehall . |
| 7 | His attention was drawn away from the rain-streaked windows by the sound of Gilbert 's voice , again nervously asking questions of Rohmer . |
| 8 | A form of rich picture was drawn up following the initial investigations , but it was used mainly as a summary of the structures , staffing levels and other essentially static factors that existed in the situation , and not as the basis for selecting a relevant system . |
| 9 | This precise and disheartening indictment was drawn up by the late Dr Enid Starkie , Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford , and Flaubert 's most exhaustive British biographer . |
| 10 | The information from which this history has been compiled was drawn mainly from the published works and office records of the Survey and the two books , ‘ The First Hundred Years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain' by J. S. Flett ( 1937 ) and ‘ The Geological Survey of Great Britain' by E. B. Bailey ( 1952 ) . |
| 11 | All moisture was drawn out of the dead before they could rot . |
| 12 | But Ruth 's eye was drawn back to the great tower of rock , and on the very top , high above , she seemed to see a jut of walls and pinnacles , glimmering like hard edges of light . |