Sentence examples for was drawn away from inspiring English sources

My attention was drawn away from the Rothko by a painting I found vaguely familiar.

As with artichoke leaves, the spicy flesh remained on our tongues as the coarse skin was drawn away and discarded.

But right away our attention was drawn away from the mechanics of the search, by the camera and the way it moved.

If one Albanian club was drawn at home in the first leg and the other was drawn away, there would be no issue.

To his champion Lawrence Gowing he was "drawn away from his time to express the subtlest and least expressible meanings of humanity".

Five thousand men shouted, "Guti," and Gutiérrez Hernández, a tiny bright figure, was drawn away from his teammates like a puppet on a string, raising his arm as if in surrender.

Because the Pentagon insisted on maintaining a "small footprint" in Afghanistan and because Iraq was drawing away resources, General Barno commanded fewer than 20,000 troops.

I think people's attention is drawn away from giving".

Weisz is drawn away from her stuffy husband towards a dashing but heartless young pilot.

If they cut them drastically, as Northern Ireland has said it would do, companies may be drawn away from England.

Chief executive Roger Whiteside said the main cause of Greggs' problems was customers being drawn away by rivals.