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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blinds...drawn (= pulled down )
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The blinds were drawn to protect the new furniture from the sun.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be at daggers drawn
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In practice they are at daggers drawn as the furore over Tom Clarke's pronouncements on the subject this week amply illustrates.
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The prospect of an interesting friendship had been destroyed and now they were at daggers drawn.
be drawn
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An analogy can be drawn with the notion of mutations in genetics.
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Charles's distant cousin John Carroll was drawn only once from the religious into the civil sphere during the war.
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I was drawn to the spectacular view.
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Lights were on in all the rooms facing the front and the curtains were drawn .
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The first correct entry to be drawn at random will be notified by phone and the Guitarist carrier pigeon will do the rest.
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The more the continents are exposed to weathering, the more carbon dioxide is drawn down from the atmosphere.
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The truth of course is that it is both and no line can be drawn .
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Thereafter a comparison is drawn between informal settlements and the Elandskloof case.
be drawn against sb
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The curtains, so blue that they were almost black, were drawn against the view.
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Window shades were drawn against the afternoon sun and the light in the house had an amber cast.
be drawn/pulled/picked out of the/a hat
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her face was pale and drawn , and she seemed to have been crying.
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Terry's face was pale and drawn when she finally arrived.
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The doctor came out, looking drawn and exhausted.
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The emergency meeting had lasted all night, and the President looked drawn as he read the statement.
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When Jack arrived he sat down slowly, his face drawn , with beads of sweat on his forehead.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Shapes moved against the drawn curtains of the room beyond, and a few seconds later the girl came forward into the light.