Example sentences of "[noun sg] draw [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the afternoon drew to a close , Mildred crept downstairs and out into the darkening yard . |
| 2 | Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round . |
| 3 | Her mouth drawn into a thin line . |
| 4 | The coach drew to a jerky halt near the curbside . |
| 5 | As the campaign drew to a close , however , readers of lowbrow papers detected significantly more bias . |
| 6 | Also as the campaign drew to a close , partisan voters alleged more unfavourable bias on television news and more favourable bias in their daily papers . |
| 7 | As the campaign drew to a close , a more positive note was sounded with advertisements offering a vision of a " new South Africa " with racial harmony and economic prosperity . |
| 8 | Interestingly , this work drew to a large extent upon the highly-theorised use of psychoanalysis and deconstruction ; it emerged around the same time that the feminist anti-pornography movement , on a grassroots and activist basis , was also seriously problematising our culture 's sight of women 's bodies . |
| 9 | Swathes of rain cloaked the noisy inn like the bed-curtain drawn round a feverish and delirious child , while the dark , deserted houses of the rest of the village kept a silent , gloomy vigil round about . |
| 10 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 11 | Clearly he was expected , because it was opened immediately by a thin , elderly woman dressed neatly in conservative black , her grizzled hair drawn into a tight bun at the nape of her neck . |
| 12 | In Central America it stands out as a model of high quality provision drawn from a small resource base . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's the start of a thing that 's sweet , ’ he told Tom one evening drawing on a long pipe filled with the first pluckings of their own tobacco . |
| 14 | At last the evening drew to a close and outdoor clothes were brought down from where they had been laid on beds . |
| 15 | Every time a record drew to a close my heart started up again , my mind went blank about what came next , and my glasses slid down my perspiring nose . |
| 16 | The Green Party Conference drew to a close today and they certainly had something to talk about with the publication of the government 's White Paper on the environment . |
| 17 | What can be discounted as nonsense on the other hand is the conclusion drawn by a Soviet historian with regard to the Tambov revolt : ‘ In that period the kulaks ’ political banditry became the most important means of struggle by international imperialism , Antonov could not even make contact with subversive elements in Kursk guberniia , let alone London . |
| 18 | He looked down on her , his brow drawn into an angry frown . |
| 19 | Few schools serve a homogeneous intake , the majority draw on a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds and care needs to be taken that false assumptions are not made about parents ' hopes for their children and their beliefs about the purpose of education . |
| 20 | And tickets are to go on sale for an Easter draw with a huge Easter Egg as first prize . |
| 21 | As the reform decade drew to a close , China appeared to be approaching a crisis situation , with rising inflation , food shortages , official corruption and other economic and social problems becoming more apparent . |
| 22 | The clear autumn day drew to a close and Corbett made them rest their horses for a while . |
| 23 | The next section examines evidence drawn from a three-year monitoring study carried out by the author and colleagues in the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts . |
| 24 | Gate takings from designated provincial matches were being given to the Patriotic Fund , the first lists of killed and wounded were being published , and , as the season drew to a close , newspaper pages were filled with the photographs of the casualties from Gallipoli , New Zealand 's bloody initiation into modern warfare . |
| 25 | During the 2nd World War seasons , as his career drew to a close , Albert became a magnificent utility player for the Palace , turning out in any position : as a full-back one week , a winger or striker the next , then as centre-half the next ! |
| 26 | The fulling mills still survived on site , although Stratford Mill 's involvement in the cloth trade drew to a close around 1738 , the first on the Painswick Stream to do so . |
| 27 | Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians . |
| 28 | As a result , the chemical formulae ( trivalent carbons , ancient representations for aromatic rings , azide drawn as a three-membered ring ) are atrocious in a volume of otherwise high production quality . |
| 29 | But doing the publicity for his new film , The Freshman , a sweetly off-beat little comedy in which he plays Clark Kellog , an innocent film student drawn into an impenetrable plot involving rare animals and gangster gourmets , Matthew Broderick is n't allowed even this consolation . |
| 30 | AN ULSTER teenager was in a spin last week after prematurely celebrating winning a brand new car in a prize draw at a local disco . |