Example sentences of "drawn [adv] into the [noun] " 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 | Slowly , Aenarion was drawn down into the daemon 's innards . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The smoke is drawn gently into the hole and then , several minutes later , wisps of it emerge from the top of a chimney twenty yards away . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The general was drawn directly into the invasion of the Philippines and plans to invade Japan . |
| 8 | This prompted fears that US personnel might be drawn directly into the politicians ' nightmare — someone else 's war , the spectre of another Viet Nam . |
| 9 | She pressed the only button , and the cage was drawn up into the heart of City Hall . |
| 10 | With loop-in wiring , the wires are labelled carefully , and drawn up into the space above the ceiling , where they should be reconnected in a junction box , in exactly the same way that they were connected in the ceiling rose , and a cable taken from this junction box to the light fitting through the hole in the ceiling ( if the new light fitting is in the same place ) . |
| 11 | After doing this for perhaps ten seconds , the fanners beside the entrance stop simultaneously and fresh air is drawn back into the hive . |
| 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 | The last thing she wanted , the day before she rode Shine On , was to be drawn back into the past . |
| 14 | But gradually the blood is drawn back into the body and the veins harden into rigid struts that will give the wing its strength . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Even at 10 mls the anti-surge plunger ensures that the liquid is drawn smoothly into the tip without vortexing . |
| 17 | It does this with a strong suck and , since the bait is usually on a hair-rig , the hook is also drawn well into the mouth . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Unless the Training Authority backed its proposals with hard cash , it found itself drawn increasingly into the market in a rather ambiguous purchase/supplier role . |
| 20 | Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict . |