Sentence examples for drawer the plans from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, an engineer at an Israeli company that had tendered to build the new terminal at Entebbe airport came forward: he happened to have, stashed in his desk drawer, the plans of the old building in which the passengers were now held hostage.

County councils said no, again and again, and the developers stuck the plans in their bottom drawers.

"The plans had been in the drawer for a while.

It won him the Royal Academy gold medal in 1776, but the plans have remained in a drawer ever since.

"In Spain there's been a lot of planning about cycling, but then the plans get put into a drawer," Cebrián says.

But first check your drawer to see if the plan sent you one you haven't read.

I put the plan in a drawer and didn't really think about it.

Coastal advocates like much, though not all, of what they've read in the national, oil-spill commission report released this month, and instead of stashing the document in a desk drawer, they plan to stay engaged and speak up about its ideas.

Despite Arzua's best intentions the plan remained in the drawer, and the IPPUC, set up in 1965 to implement this masterplan, remained largely idle.

The chest shown here had to fit in a cavity in the wall that was 37" wide and 24" deep and went up all the way to the ceiling, so the chest of drawers was planned to be about 4 feet (1.2 m) tall, 3 feet (0.9 m) wide and 2 feet (0.6 m) deep.

I've got a whole drawer-full of plans".