Example sentences of "[v-ing] together the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She was still gathering together the finance she needed .
2 They occupy the time that seems vacant , as if you were just hanging around doing nothing — but where in reality the well is filling up , where you are gathering together the material that will make up your narrative ; rearranging it , transforming it .
3 Bringing together the world of books and music , it includes extracts from their own writings , contemporary anecdotes and impressions and songs by composers such as Handel , Haydn , Mozart and Mendelssohn , as well as two from Anne 's Song Book .
4 The conference , bringing together the world 's seven leading industrial nations , centred on trade talks .
5 Prof Pikas said his methods were non-accusatory , and involved asking the bully for a solution to the problem , bringing together the bully and the victim , and discussing ways they can live together .
6 A show to promote the charity 's work in India … weaving together the colour and vitality of the country to create an exclusive collection from the world 's leading fashion houses .
7 Placement may assist in pulling together the framework and coherent objectives for partnerships ; can explore how other organisations may be used ; is able to secure commitment to growth by partners through direct experience of one another ; establishes communications between the various partners ; may be used to identify who should be involved and at what levels ; provides a regular data and information flow through its exchange mechanism ; may indicate for the local area the support available from national employers that may be utilised at the local level ; constructs environments where introductions are purposeful between the partners and can adopt an incremental approach to partnership activity .
8 By piecing together the jigsaw fragments , I was able to recreate the chapter .
9 Archaeology is not a hermetic discipline it benefits from a wide range of related sciences in piecing together the past .
10 From these sources he is piecing together the vocabulary and grammar of Gothic .
11 Piecing together the evidence from the incident with the K6E pilot , it seems almost certain that the pilot blacked out during the recovery .
12 In analysing the information that comes in through the eyes , the brain works ‘ bottom up ’ , piecing together the information from individual retinal cells into larger wholes , and ‘ top down ’ , comparing pre-existing models in the brain with the visual input .
13 For the whole economy the social cost of monopoly power is obtained by adding together the deadweight burden triangles such as ACB for all industries in which marginal cost and marginal revenue are less than price and social marginal benefit .
14 It was Marshall who took the game right away from England , holding together the tail for 62 not out and stretching the total to 399 .
15 His initiative in calling together the World Religions at Assisi and his message to the annual meeting of World Religions each year since Assisi shows how important he considers interreligious understanding and co-operation .
16 Williamson 's Fire ( 1901 ) competently builds tension by running together the story of a man in a burning room and the fire brigade scurrying to his rescue .
17 When putting together the range and support materials said , ‘ Our objective was to produce a range which is simple and exciting to sell , attractive for the merchant to stock and easy for the farmer to use .
18 Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson whose own title defence is in tatters , admitted : ‘ There are eight or so teams up there , but there is no indication that any of them are putting together the kind of run that looks ominous ‘ Blackburn showed the sort of confidence against us that comes from the feeling that you have got a chance .
19 You may not be putting together the salad on your plate or cooking your main course in the kitchen , but you do have a certain control over what goes onto your plate .
20 They were dining together the night before their flight to Bucharest .
21 Striding together the Doctor and Blake returned to the murder scene .
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