Example sentences of "be drawn [adv prt] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had meant only to run up the road for a breath of air when the rain stopped and she had been drawn on into the spring evening until now she had half an hour 's brisk walk to get home . |
| 2 | Their eye-sockets have no bony floor , so when they blink , the eye-balls are drawn down into the skull and make a bulge in the roof of the mouth which squeezes the lump of food to the back of the throat . |
| 3 | The last thing she wanted , the day before she rode Shine On , was to be drawn back into the past . |
| 4 | Its 80-kilometre , elliptical layout is designed to carry water for six million Londoners to strategically placed pump shafts , from which it can be drawn off into the local network . |
| 5 | In the case of the breeding aquarium , even when gravel tidies are employed , the fry can end up being drawn through into the gravel , and lost . |
| 6 | Spain was changing , however , in spite of Franco 's reluctance to recognize the fact , for it was slowly being drawn back into the international mainstream . |
| 7 | But gradually the blood is drawn back into the body and the veins harden into rigid struts that will give the wing its strength . |
| 8 | After doing this for perhaps ten seconds , the fanners beside the entrance stop simultaneously and fresh air is drawn back into the hive . |
| 9 | He had talked with two colleagues about the possibility of fusion occurring when water is drawn down into the Earth 's mantle at boundaries between tectonic plates . |
| 10 | She pressed the only button , and the cage was drawn up into the heart of City Hall . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Slowly , Aenarion was drawn down into the daemon 's innards . |