Example sentences of "drawer [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opened the drawer that had the pheasant 's egg in . |
| 2 | close the till drawer and thank the customer |
| 3 | I found a felt-tip pen in the desk drawer and addressed the envelope to ‘ Mr F. MacLean ’ care of a pub I knew in Southwark where they knew me by that name . |
| 4 | ‘ By the way , Mr Beckenham , I have something for you , ’ he said when he had done , opening a drawer and locating a small visiting card . |
| 5 | She was pulling underwear from a drawer and searching every piece as she picked it up . |
| 6 | He put the papers back into the drawer and locked the desk , but continued to sit there . |
| 7 | Arthur Kobold delved into a desk drawer and produced an enormous fruit cake . |
| 8 | With his gloved hands , he pulled open the top drawer and found a stack of white writing paper , of cheap quality , headed with the name of the church , and a box of envelopes . |
| 9 | I replaced the sealed tin and the plastic drawer and lit the tiny pyre with a match . |
| 10 | Someone had trapped folded paper in the bottom drawer and removed the handles so it could no longer be opened except , perhaps , by a very strong man . |
| 11 | She opened the top drawer and withdrew an object wrapped in purple silk . |
| 12 | Then he went to another drawer and extracted a piece of paper , squinting at it carefully before he handed it over . |
| 13 | He shut the drawer and turned the key . |
| 14 | In one of the two miniature drawers that flanked the mirror he found a letter from the girl 's father , postmarked New York . |
| 15 | It goes wandering through the files unchecked , pulling open the drawers and scattering the papers , writing wild minutes of its own . |
| 16 | He sat in his drawers and had a bottle of beer . |
| 17 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 18 | We throw clothes back in their drawers and remake the bed . |
| 19 | They began to look in cupboards and drawers and to stack a tray with what was needed . |
| 20 | If they took out one of these drawers and have a lockable cupboard I 'd have it no questions . |
| 21 | She put him on the chest of drawers and fetched a nut out of his special box . |