Example sentences of "[verb] together in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 2 | Open green pastures and the distinctive monoliths gathered together in a circle . |
| 3 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 4 | The men lived together in a compound or — to use their term — a cage . |
| 5 | The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired . |
| 6 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 7 | Eric 's guitar sounded like two steel rail wagons clanging together in a Chicago freight yard at 4am . |
| 8 | Air and earth , she told herself again , her brows drawing together in a grimace . |
| 9 | Paintings which beg to be viewed at a distance , one by one , are squeezed together in a room as narrow , bare and poorly lit as a urinal in an airport . |
| 10 | They 're still impressive , with the chimney , flues , dressing floors and the remnants of the smelting hearths clustered together in a valley whose sides are covered with heaps of spoil . |
| 11 | ‘ You know , the Chou believed that Heaven and Earth were once inextricably mixed together in a state of undifferentiated chaos , like a chicken 's egg . |
| 12 | The packet contained two smaller packets — one blue , one white , which were mixed together in a tumbler of water . |
| 13 | The real success formula became evident from the very beginning a mixture of good humour , innuendo , cliché , double-entendre all mixed together in a cauldron of what was plainly goodwill and a desire for a good time . |
| 14 | The sheep wisely leave it alone and most bugs do , too , for it contains two chemicals which , when mixed together in a creature 's stomach , make cyanide . |
| 15 | It is more like a slow process of sifting , in which , by a long series of stages , and with many pauses , grains of one kind tend to come together in a heap ’ . |
| 16 | I do n't think he conceived ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ as a concept album , but the songs slotted together in a way that it became a concept , and the way he presented it on stage , how he wanted to look , how the boy 's costumes looked ( facsimiles of his — though his were patterned and theirs were simple ) meant that he 'd breathe life into a concept hero . |
| 17 | That 's what makes us significant , three very different kinds of people able to work together in a band . ’ |
| 18 | Its quest is for an active invention of a whole pattern of ‘ effective partnerships ’ , to help Northerners and northern agencies of all kinds to work together in a co-operative of enlightened self-interest . |
| 19 | It 's clear that the many non-party political groups which sprang up in the wake of the election , bodies such as Common Cause and Scotland United , are now prepared to work together in a coalition to stage further events highlighting the deficiencies of the current constitutional arrangements . |
| 20 | Soon after , all the rabbits had come together in a kind of hollow . |
| 21 | Word has it that an unlikely combination of forces have come together in a bid to establish a new standard for installing Unix software from graphical user interfaces and will be showing their stuff next month 's Uniforum show in San Francisco . |
| 22 | There are obviously more overheads when the client group is geographically dispersed rather than grouped together in a home . |
| 23 | The first process is in part an aspect of the interaction of men grouped together in a society and engaged in production . |
| 24 | Several genera ( plural of genus ) may be grouped together in a family , several families together in a superfamily , and the superfamilies themselves are clustered into classes , two or more of which combine to make the phylum . |
| 25 | They moved together in a dance as old as time until finally Travis slid between her parted thighs , hands going to her hips to hold her tightly against him and feel his desire . |
| 26 | Tamar 's brows drew together in a frown . |
| 27 | Jonadab 's lips set in a straight line and his brows drew together in a frown . |
| 28 | His eyebrows drew together in a frown . |
| 29 | His brows drew together in a frown . |
| 30 | Madeleine 's brows drew together in a scowl . |