Example sentences of "[was/were] draw [adv] into [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It is thanks to these men of ability and vision that the deaf communities in Britain became so well established and respected , and that the deaf communities were drawn together into a national movement which after a false start exists to this day in the British Deaf Association .
3 She pressed the only button , and the cage was drawn up into the heart of City Hall .
4 Now a freelance journalist , in his first piece for Esquire he returns to Pinner to trace the story of a young man who was drawn inexorably into a spiral which led to murder ( When Iain Met Tommy , page 126 ) .
5 The general was drawn directly into the invasion of the Philippines and plans to invade Japan .
6 ‘ Yes … and although he himself wanted the contemplative life , he was drawn out into the world and given the episcopate of Strathclyde , at Glasgow , when he was twenty-five years old .
7 She was wearing huge aviator glasses , designed to hide but only drawing attention to the palely perfect face , the unlipsticked mouth , the silvery blonde hair fine as maize silk , which was drawn back into the nape of her neck .
8 Slowly , Aenarion was drawn down into the daemon 's innards .
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