Example sentences of "was draw [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the other girl 's fixed gaze , Anita noticed that a large black chauffeur-driven limousine was drawing up to the edge of the road . |
| 2 | He was drawing up outside the hall when he thought of Graham Young . |
| 3 | The sea was drawing off across the foreshore — leaving acre after acre of rocks — with a long series of hollow roars , diminishing , diminuendo on diminuendo . |
| 4 | On 10 November 1921 , a new agreement was drawn up between the Company and Croydon Corporation for maintenance of track within the Borough and to permit the construction of a curve at the top of Tamworth Road , only to be used for the transfer of cars . |
| 5 | The Convention was drawn up under the aegis of the Pompidou Group [ see pp. 37394 ; 35127 ] and would enter into force once ratified by three signatories . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She pressed the only button , and the cage was drawn up into the heart of City Hall . |
| 8 | Ellis declined to say how much the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club is being paid for the service , but this is not money which British racing is missing out on , as a contract , subject to review after three years , was drawn up with the Racecourse Association at the beginning of SIS transmission . |
| 9 | As I recall , he had not been initially so preoccupied with the peace treaty when it was drawn up at the end of the Great War , and I think it is fair to say that his interest was prompted not so much by an analysis of the treaty , but by his friendship with Herr Karl-Heinz Bremann . |
| 10 | The Statement of principles and Objectives of the Federation was drawn up at the conference and signed by all the organizations present at the conference ( see Annex ) . |
| 11 | In June 1991 , a draft welfare charter was drawn up at the University of Witwatersrand recommending that ‘ free and compulsory education until the age of 16 be introduced ’ . |
| 12 | It was a comparatively fine day , and a table was drawn up to the window . |
| 13 | Nowhere was this more apparent than in the complicated pattern of voting that was drawn up for the Council , varying according to the nature and source of the issue under discussion and ranging from simply majorities through qualified majorities to unanimity . |
| 14 | Over lunch at the Roof Gardens , an agreement was drawn up for the purchase of Powell 's share in Virgin , giving him one million pounds , the Scala cinema and the video-editing suites . |
| 15 | The forged document , the so-called " Donation of Constantine " , which was drawn up before the mid-eighth century , when the papacy was anxious to use and control the Frankish leaders , claimed that Constantine had given his imperial palace of the Lateran and dominion over " the city of Rome and all the places , cities and provinces of Italy and the West " to Pope Sylvester , handing the pope his imperial insignia and symbols — the lance , sceptre , orb , imperial standards , purple-scarlet mantle , imperial pallium and tunic . |
| 16 | After a couple of hours , during which some sticks and other items were thrown at the police and insults were shouted , a mounted police line was drawn up behind the police cordon and a row of police vans . |
| 17 | A list of the social and economic problems which could be identified was drawn up by the Executive Committee and approved by the full Association . |
| 18 | This precise and disheartening indictment was drawn up by the late Dr Enid Starkie , Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford , and Flaubert 's most exhaustive British biographer . |
| 19 | The programme for the first year was drawn up by the three partners during a week-long visit to Fife . |
| 20 | Under the programme , which was drawn up by the EC Commission , Albania was to be given 50,000 tonnes of EC wheat ; further donations amounting to 100,000 tonnes of wheat were to be canvassed from other Western countries . |
| 21 | Traditionally the contract of employment was drawn up by the employer and there was little or no negotiation as to its contents . |
| 22 | A PUBLIC inquiry is to investigate Armagh area plan which was drawn up by the DoE . |
| 23 | The document was drawn up by the Association of Premier League and Football League Referees and Linesmen and launched by its president , John Deakin , at a London hotel yesterday . |
| 24 | Finally , in April , 1988 , an agenda for withdrawal - many would say retreat - was drawn up in the Geneva accords : all 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan would be pulled out by February 15 , 1989 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | Slowly at first , then ever more rapidly , she was drawn out across the lake . |
| 27 | All moisture was drawn out of the dead before they could rot . |
| 28 | Already the features were changing as moisture was drawn out of the flesh , but remembering how Iritnefert had looked when he had first seen her , he could understand how the two girls could be confused . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But Ruth 's eye was drawn back to the great tower of rock , and on the very top , high above , she seemed to see a jut of walls and pinnacles , glimmering like hard edges of light . |