Example sentences of "[was/were] draw [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After a couple of hours , during which some sticks and other items were thrown at the police and insults were shouted , a mounted police line was drawn up behind the police cordon and a row of police vans . |