Exempel på drawbridge

• A gate-house, with a drawbridge commands the entrance. 

• But the drawbridge was up. 

• The drawbridge lowered, and open swung the gates. 

• The sometime moat was now full of smooth, green grass, and the drawbridge no longer remains. 

• There were two drawbridges—seldom used but always practicable. 

• The trolley's hitting the one will stop its forward progression and cause it to fall into the water below the drawbridge.

• So doing will send the trolley up the ramp of the open drawbridge and into the air, where it will hit one person standing on a pedestrian bridge overhead.

• What we need is partnership, and not the drawbridge mentality of the nationalists.

• I was teetering on the edge of the drawbridge, but withdrew very quickly.

• We are not talking about raising the drawbridge.

• Pulling up the drawbridge or pretending that the problem does not exist is not responsible government.

• The people in it tilled the land outside, going over by the drawbridge of the castle, and it was a happy community.

• Surely we cannot pull up a drawbridge and say that we do not need to account for ourselves in the way we conduct our affairs.

• We must avoid the drawbridge being pulled up by the premiership, especially when club directors see the money that is available.

• I suspect that that is where he is tonight and that the drawbridge is up.

• It was a barbed wire enclosure surrounded by a stake moat and provided with a drawbridge.

• I am not too sure whether arks have drawbridges, but the analogy is right.

• There is nothing wrong with that, but the drawbridge is being pulled up after them to prevent other parents having the same choices and opportunities.

• For the moment, the drawbridge is effectively up, and there is fury and anger on both sides.

• It is said that replacing the drawbridges with fixed bridges will ultimately save the taxpayer a good deal of money.