Example sentences of "draw up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cars drew up for a quiet haggle , the girls got in . |
| 2 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 3 | They were closed , but just beyond them he cut the engine and drew up to a short flight of steps with a small studded door at the top . |
| 4 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 5 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 6 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 7 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 8 | Railways van drew up outside the big house . |
| 9 | Not wishing to antagonize Harry , when finally they drew up outside the little cottage in Melton Mowbray to which Mrs Appleby had now retired , Madeleine allowed herself to be persuaded inside . |
| 10 | The cab drew up outside an enormous emporium in the very heart of the town , and Ellie alighted while Madame paid off the cab . |
| 11 | They drew up beside the stone-pillared farm gate which Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 12 | When they drew up beside the little band it was Alice Mair who opened the car door and spoke . |
| 13 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
| 14 | We drew up in a tiny village called Pontrobert in Powys — a particularly beautiful part of mid-Wales . |
| 15 | Outside in the war-torn street , Special Forces vehicles drew up in an uncompromising line . |
| 16 | She turned in , then felt her nerves flutter as she drew up before a timber-built single-storeyed house which was backed by several small chalet-type huts , while behind them were numerous sheds . |
| 17 | A form of rich picture was drawn up following the initial investigations , but it was used mainly as a summary of the structures , staffing levels and other essentially static factors that existed in the situation , and not as the basis for selecting a relevant system . |
| 18 | A SHROUD , is composed of a peculiar kind of flannel , woven on purpose , and called shrouding flannel ; it is made of a breadth and a half , full length , so as to cover the feet ; one seam is sewed up , leaving the other open behind , like a pinafore ; slits are cut for arm-holes , and plain long sleeves , without gussets set in ; the front is gathered at the waist , and drawn up into a narrow piece ; this is twice repeated , at intervals of three nails down the skirt , upon each of these gatherings , round the neck and at the wrists , a kind of border of the same flannel , punched at the edge in a pattern , is plaited , and an edging of the same is made at the bottom . |
| 19 | And in the second version he introduces a three-dimensional hand not , as in the Velázquez with the fingers straight and limp , but drawn up into an uneasy gesture , that claws at her skirt rather than rests against it . |
| 20 | He imagined them lying close , arms round one another , Annie , perhaps , with her leg drawn up over the other girl 's haunch , and breathing softly on to one another 's faces . |
| 21 | Officers strutted in their brightest breacan-feiles ; the same length of a finer cloth , four and a half feet wide , held at the waist by a silver-buckled belt to fall double thickness , and the outside layer at the back drawn up over the left shoulder and pinned with a great silver brooch . |
| 22 | The major agreements are drawn up between a small number of tightly-controlled organisations and the outcome of their central negotiations sets guidelines and limits to the industry-wide negotiations which then subsequently take place . |
| 23 | A draft agreement covering the ownership of works of art and the division of cultural property was among the scores of treaties and agreements drawn up between the Czech and Slovak Republics prior to the 1 January dissolution of the seventy-four-year-old state of Czechoslovakia . |
| 24 | After 16 years of dictatorship from 1973 to 1989 an executive President is , under the 1980 Constitution ( drawn up under the previous military regime and amended in 1989 ) elected for a four-year term . |
| 25 | He 'd drawn up outside the old town house , cut the engine . |
| 26 | In view of the evaporation of the objections of the BMA and a large number of doctors to the Government 's policy , does my hon. Friend agree that the debate is being drawn up along the following lines , with the Confederation of Health Service Employees , the National Union of Public Employees and the Labour party on one side and the Government , the taxpayers and the patients on the other ? |
| 27 | A wing-hair was drawn up to a crackling wood fire and Mrs Gotobed sat in it . |
| 28 | As she moved , restless beneath his scrutiny , with a mocking gesture he indicated one of the armchairs drawn up to the flower-filled fireplace . |
| 29 | The " Wildlife Enhancement Scheme " , which is to be trialled in the Culm Measures of Devon and the Pevensey Levels of Sussex , will offer annual management payments in return for agreement from landowners/occupiers to manage the land for conservation , on the basis of a plan drawn up with the local English Nature officer . |
| 30 | Ministers clearly recognise there is widespread concern about the outcome of the new assessment process , the wide variations appearing in eligibility criteria , and about the contracts being drawn up with the independent sector . |