Example sentences of "[vb past] together [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1918 he met the painter Arthur Lett-Haines ( 1894–1978 ) , and despite other liaisons the two lived together for sixty years until Haines 's death in 1978 . |
| 2 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 3 | T. Behrens 's book commemorates a young couple who lived together for seventeen years in a solitude à deux and who then took their own lives — incompetently and lingeringly . |
| 4 | They lived together for four years , and then two years ago they broke up . |
| 5 | Many now recall how happily Jews and Arabs lived together before 1948 , although it is a fact that in some parts of Palestine near civil war existed between the two communities long before that date . |
| 6 | They met in 1968 , lived together from 1969 , married in 1978 and were divorced in 1987 . |
| 7 | They all lived together in two rooms-and a courtyard . |
| 8 | To plan the strategy Jones and Palmer got together on 7 April with Bart Czirr , a physicist from the University , and Johann Rafelski , a theorist who had been interested in Jones ' work on piezonuclear fusion since 1985 , and who was about to move from Cape Town to the University of Arizona . |
| 9 | They held each other tight , so tight that it took their breath away , zipped together into one being . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Roping up , we moved together for 200 to 300 feet to the foot of the first big ice pitch in the corner system . |
| 12 | We came together on one point , and that was our attitude towards the media . |
| 13 | Willey and Balderstone , both on debut , stemmed the tide for a while , and then Greig and Knott came together at 169 for 5 with the follow-on a distinct possibility . |
| 14 | They came together at 95 for 8 , with 43 still needed and England looking , a near-certainty . |
| 15 | The Group of 77 , named for 77 underdeveloped southern countries , unaligned with either the Soviet or the US camp , came together in 1964 through their common membership of the United Nations ( Sauvant , 1981 ) . |
| 16 | The first version of the Robert Cray band came together in 1974 , and slowly built a following around America 's North West coast . |
| 17 | ( The Library Association School Libraries Section was not founded till I 936 , and the School Library Association till 1937 ; when the two came together in 1945 under the latter name , the sad separation of school librarianship from other branches of one profession was reinforced . ) |
| 18 | Consequently , when a handful of practitioners came together in 1979 , it did so with a single guiding principle : ‘ the real measure of development is the ability of a people to build its own comprehensive and complimentary and independent infrastructure that is capable of dealing with its own problems , needs and aspirations . ’ |
| 19 | The project never materialised owing to a federal moratorium on housing funds , but the two strands of building preservation and community involvement came together in 1979 with the incorporation of the MCC . |
| 20 | In this single speech , Law foreshadowed the development of the party for the next fifteen years ; the strategic dilemma over relations with the other parties after the war , the need to make real concessions to make a coalition workable , the openings that could be created by a national leader of independent reputation ( Baldwin as it turned out ) , and the outcome when the moderate men of all parties came together in 1931 . |
| 21 | Several local groups came together in 1901 to form the SR party , and were joined the following year by the émigré Agrarian Socialist League . |
| 22 | It was a group which came together in 1972 in an attempt to focus attention on the severity and inconsistencies of sentences being given in the courts to loyalists charged with politically motivated offences in contrast to those being given to republicans . |
| 23 | There — breaking new ground in the capital of South Africa — more than 400 people , black , brown and white , lived and conferred together in one of the city 's best hotels . |
| 24 | They each led a procession , one from the church and one from the school , but with the demise of the iron company and its band these two joined together in one procession . |
| 25 | During World War Two , the fortunes of those two bomber squadrons bore striking similarities , they arrived together in 1943 and left together in 1945 , they flew the same type of aircraft , Halifax and Lancaster , and shared the same operations . |
| 26 | The fields surrounding the churchyard had long ago been relieved from private ownership and lumped together into one huge collective farm . |
| 27 | They worked together for six months in project planning and Brown took a teaching job at the Strathclyde Business School which also allowed him to keep looking for hotel sites . |
| 28 | Our knowledge of this comes very largely from David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel , who worked together for twenty years at Harvard Medical School , recording from single neurons of the visual cortex — the part of the neocortex that receives its input mainly from the eyes . |
| 29 | American and Japanese scientists worked together for three seasons , sharing equally in the specimens discovered . |
| 30 | The turning point in our campaign came in 1987 when the Easthall Residents Association ( ERA ) and our allies worked together on two unique initiatives — the Heatfest Housing Project and ‘ Housing makes you Sick ’ — the largest fully independent survey into housing and health ever carried out in Britain . |