Example sentences of "[verb] together in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in areas remote from this authority , as in isolated mining settlements , or where the state was itself weak , as in the United States , could bourgeois masters exercise that sort of direct rule , whether by command over the local forces of public authority , by private armies of Pinkerton men , or by banding together in armed groups of ‘ vigilantes ’ to maintain ‘ order ’ . |
| 2 | Ace glanced around , noting the clay bottles and pots sealed with wax that were stacked together in rickety cupboards . |
| 3 | As the helicopter came down to land , to their dismay they saw that the organizers had not only laid on about fifteen different activities for the Prince to inspect , including mountain-bike scrambling ; but children from no fewer than five primary schools were gathered together in great banks to greet him . |
| 4 | It was the first time our national and international network had gathered together in one place and made us all realise just how much the work has grown . ’ |
| 5 | By the day before the completion of sale all the goods in her house had been gathered together in one room downstairs , some packed in wooden crates , some in black leather cases and tapestry bags , some still living free . |
| 6 | One of the monks , describing the presence , said he could ‘ perceive the fragrance of such a wonderful odour , as if all the flowers on earth were gathered together in one place ; I feel also a glow of heat within me — not at all painful , but most pleasing — and a certain unusual and unexplainable joy poured into my heart , which all of a sudden so refreshes and gladdens me I forget grief and weariness of every kind ’ . |
| 7 | Apart , then , from those for whom the virtue of representative democracy is precisely that it restricts and restrains popular power , and even , as in Britain , involves the vesting of sovereignty in the representative institutions rather than in the people themselves the chief argument in defence of representative democracy has been an essentially pragmatic one : that it is the best that can be devised in the context of large societies where the citizens are too many and too scattered to be gathered together in one place . |
| 8 | All expertise in a particular technique or on a certain topic can be gathered together in one place , and the level of collective knowledge can then be ascertained , supported and made available . |
| 9 | With all pupils gathered together in one room always with Roger supervising , at the end of the day , control is enforced in a highly visible and audible manner . |
| 10 | The anger and hurt she had felt gathered together in one anguished cry . |
| 11 | Some are rapid swimmers gathered together in silvery shoals , others sluggish bottom dwellers spending most of their time buried in sediment . |
| 12 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
| 13 | For all the young people who have shared not just today but shared together in this weekend thank you God . |
| 14 | If you 've never seen the Tan Hill on a bleary winter 's day when winds are driving wet sleet over the hellhole of Sleightholme Moor and the sky and the land are welded together in one sullen , sodden grey , then you 've missed a treat . |
| 15 | Three of these cantons ( Uri Schwyz and Unterwalden ) first joined together in 1291 . |
| 16 | He was proud that their freedom parade and service and the mayor 's installation should be joined together in this way . |
| 17 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 18 | Now there was nothing left to him but the conflicting passions of his terror and his furious pride , knotted together in inextricable warfare in his bowels . |
| 19 | When this happens , the individuals may disperse or they may stay together in new groupings . |
| 20 | Some anchoresses lived together in adjacent apartments and nearly all had servants . |
| 21 | They all lived together in two rooms-and a courtyard . |
| 22 | ‘ They lived together in Red Hall and then he went his way and she went hers . |
| 23 | This huge old hospital is known by the Milanese as the Ca'Grande , or ‘ Great House ’ , and was built by Francesco Sforza in 1456 as a way of bringing together in one place about thirty little hospitals which had grown up around the Porta Romana . |
| 24 | The great peace congresses which punctuated the history of the period gave particular scope , by bringing together in one place the representatives of a large number of different States , for disputes of this kind . |
| 25 | By the nineteenth century the church was almost in ruins , for only its sturdy medieval tower remained intact ; the whole building was restored in 1838 when fragments of the ancient structure were patched together in new walls . |
| 26 | Although theory and practice are meant to go together in most accounts of economic endeavour , one area where there seems to be an alarming gap is between tax theory and tax practice . |
| 27 | As they clung together in that unutterable pleasure , he felt that they were defying everything that had persecuted them . |
| 28 | He would sit there all day doing this , sleeping sometimes in his chair but never tuning off , trying to make all these pieces of television fit together in some way . |
| 29 | Most sailing clubs will have a few catamarans clustered together in one end of the dinghy park , but if you are keen to race one it is best to choose a club that has plenty of water space and specialises in a large multihull fleet . |
| 30 | The colour is produced by imperfections and impurities in the diamond , for example , a yellow colour results when the diamond contains nitrogen atoms clustered together in equilateral triangles with each nitrogen atom replacing one carbon atom of the perfect diamond ( Figure 4 ) . |