Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] drawn [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | National guidelines were drawn up after the Cairngorms tragedy . |
| 2 | As Ashi dressed swiftly her eyes were drawn back to the carriage clock . |
| 3 | Her eyes were drawn back to the set , where Dane was still holding court . |
| 4 | Their skirts were drawn up to the crotch , the heels high , the legs bare , the skin chafed by the cold . |
| 5 | The curtains were drawn back to the sound of a hurdy-gurdy . |
| 6 | These new procedures were drawn up by the company itself , according to the council 's senior counsel . |
| 7 | Its original boundaries were drawn up without the benefit of any systematic survey ; no LFA land was de-designated when the UK LFA was substantially extended early in 1984 to include the so-called marginal land . |
| 8 | The boundaries were drawn up for the Directive on a Commune by Commune basis with the vast majority of Communes being entirely allocated to one or other LFA zone . |
| 9 | With competition becoming intense the first set of Motor Racing rules were drawn up for the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris race of 1898 . |
| 10 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 11 | A few fishing boats sat in the lagoon , some outrigger canoes were drawn up on the sand and one small pleasure yacht , which must have come from another island , was anchored to a buoy . |
| 12 | Other women were drawn on to the paper , but as on It they were supposed to know their place . |