Example sentences of "[vb past] together the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The politicians who cobbled together the convention 's proposals still call themselves Unionists . |
| 2 | Telford drove piles in behind the lock walls and bolted together the iron plates to make the lock both stable and watertight . |
| 3 | When you have a very small , very select , very ladylike grammar school , joined with two rough and ready secondary moderns what basically happened in my view is that when they joined together the grammar school staff , or most of them , could n't cope with the rough and ready aspect the school they came to have . |
| 4 | Although no land has been sold , it appears that the sale of the herd and two subsequent disposals of the milk quota constituted together the sale of a complete business . |
| 5 | Gradually he pieced together the story , visiting or writing to members of the family in several continents to confirm details . |
| 6 | However , CODESA II , which brought together the government , ANC and 17 other organizations , ended in deadlock and delegates failed to adopt any of the reports of the five working parties which had been established at the first CODESA session in December 1991 [ see pp. 38662-63 ; 38705 ] . |
| 7 | The meeting took place in one of the smaller boardrooms on the top floor and brought together the Chairman , Lord Monkton , Hammond Wilde , ‘ Squeezer ’ Lemon and Ms. Georgie Peacock , with Richie and Patrick in attendance . |
| 8 | In the carnage and suffering of the trenches his strongly sacramental Christianity was communicated in memorable addresses and in colloquial verse of sometimes powerful simplicity , which brought together the passion of Christ and the doubt , fear , and courage of soldiers caught in the squalid stalemate of the Flanders trenches . |
| 9 | His notebooks tell a rather more complex story , however , and it was only after several years of work that he eventually put together the idea of natural selection . |
| 10 | Buzz 's Mark Neale and Grant Fee put together the bulk of the visuals ( a series of routines structured round archetypal themes such as love , speed , fear and the like , and according to Gee ‘ all supposed to reflect this idea of Montxo Algora 's that emotions are what will save us in virtual reality ’ . |
| 11 | No-one had noticed that while they huddled together the armour-plating had rusted away . |
| 12 | In February 1914 she scraped together the money for the trip and took lodgings in Montparnasse in a foul-smelling room on the Boulevard Raspail . |
| 13 | But , as an unattached freelance ( I ca n't think how she even scraped together the entry fee for this Fair ) , her opinion counts for very little with the company . |
| 14 | They were going to undo the spells that held together the vortex and bring back Chaos to the world . |
| 15 | Reviewing the Salon d'Automne , Allard grouped together the work of Metzinger , Le Fauconnier and Gleizes , and , using one of the paintings shown by Metzinger an example , stated : ‘ there is thus being born in opposition to Impressionism an art which instead of copying natural phenomena , offers to the mind of the spectator , in their pictorial entirety , elements that as a result of synthesis are fundamental and timeless ’ . |