Example sentences of "drawn up over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mother and baby lie side by side : Mrs Williams , represented as wearing day-clothes , is propped up on her right elbow , staring adoringly at her deceased infant ; the latter is wrapped in a fine close-fitting linen shroud , drawn up over the feet rather than under , and tied at the knees with a fairly broad linen band . |
| 3 | The new measures , similar to those in force in Britain and the US , were drawn up over the summer by Mr Lang 's Ministry , which is said to be interested in extending the French insurance model to the whole of Europe . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And the shape Aldhelm would present was that of a man young by his step and pace , in a dun-coloured cloak wrapped about him against the rain , and with the pointed hood drawn up over his head . |