Example sentences of "[vb past] together for [adj] " 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 | Happily they lived together for several weeks , until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town . |
| 6 | Roping up , we moved together for 200 to 300 feet to the foot of the first big ice pitch in the corner system . |
| 7 | Unlike NATO , which came together for collective defence , the European Community includes neutral Ireland and may soon include neutral Sweden and Austria too . |
| 8 | Thus employers came together for mutual support since labour 's ( political ) goals posed a threat not merely to individual employers but collectively to employers as a class . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They worked together for many years ; they would drink together on an evening . |
| 11 | Clearly all things worked together for good in this family where friction was as rare as in a well-oiled machine . |
| 12 | , centre , with workmate , right , and ( retired ) who worked together for most of 's 20 years at . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We marched together to and from Aldermaston , we worked together for co-operative socialism , we campaigned together for health , welfare , employment , education and housing in our ‘ inner city ’ constituencies . |
| 15 | American and Japanese scientists worked together for three seasons , sharing equally in the specimens discovered . |
| 16 | Yes , her and I went together for seventeen year , before us got married . ’ |
| 17 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |
| 18 | That summer the maternal grandmother 's gift of a Ramadan feast was brought without question to the family majlis , and the young Sheikh , his friends and I sat together for those last painful moments of the first day of Ramadan . |
| 19 | In the event I was shown into a small room with Her Majesty , where we sat together for some twenty minutes chatting amiably about almost anything under the sun . |
| 20 | The couple stayed together for little more than a year and their son died before he was 12 months old , an incident that was to haunt Gallacher throughout his precociously successful playing career . |
| 21 | We stayed together for two years . |