Example sentences of "was draw [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rory , still crushed , his face warmed by the flavoured breath of Arthur Dooley , was drawn backwards from the fray , inexorably . |
| 2 | The RCM prided itself on a broad-minded approach to religion This suited the collective temperament of the ruling body , which was drawn largely from the liberal branch of Judaism , and made sense in terms of practical politics . |
| 3 | Nu was drawn strongly to the Chinese struggle against Japan and paid a visit to China under KMT auspices . |
| 4 | Its first director was Lord Rothschild and its staff was drawn both from the civil service and from outside Whitehall . |
| 5 | His attention was drawn away from the rain-streaked windows by the sound of Gilbert 's voice , again nervously asking questions of Rohmer . |
| 6 | Though the official figures are not easy to interpret it seems that at the outbreak of the Seven Years War about half its manpower was drawn either from the jails of London and other cities or from the crews of foreign ships . |
| 7 | The information from which this history has been compiled was drawn mainly from the published works and office records of the Survey and the two books , ‘ The First Hundred Years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain' by J. S. Flett ( 1937 ) and ‘ The Geological Survey of Great Britain' by E. B. Bailey ( 1952 ) . |
| 8 | She was drawn unquestionably to the appearance of things , though she was aware that she had as yet much ground to cover , and that she had followed many a false trail ; she remembered with particular regret the quantities of eyeshadow which she had once thought desirable , and the pendant earrings of the same epoch . |
| 9 | The general was drawn directly into the invasion of the Philippines and plans to invade Japan . |
| 10 | Its formation may have owed something to the traditional structure of the peasant commune ; its unity and authority were enhanced by the absence of firmly entrenched separate trade unions ; and its electoral procedure was drawn directly from the experience of the Shidlovsky Commission . |