Example sentences of "could [vb infin] together " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , while it goes to great lengths to be friendly and avoid jargon , because it is an American book , you do need to be happy with US slang speech to enjoy it , and sometimes even to understand it , as in ‘ Obtuse code-word sorters divvy those ’ , ‘ Most DOS programs are text-based critters ’ , or ‘ To counter this bad trip , the Windows programmers created a communal work place where all the programs could groove together peacefully ’ . |
| 2 | The iron was in two parts which you could screw together . |
| 3 | Leon Trotsky argued in the run-up to the short-lived 1905 uprising that Russia could telescope together two revolutionary stages — first , the ‘ bourgeois ’ political revolution to topple the feudal apparatus of Czarism and establish a liberal constitutional regime ; and , second , the working-class social revolution to decisively overthrow capitalism . |
| 4 | If you have editing facilities , you could edit together a succession of short " clips " of different people talking about the same subject . |
| 5 | Earthly life is inveterately complex ; of all natural materials , only water could bring together such a rich variety of elements , so conveniently , as this life requires . |
| 6 | We were all very wary of each other , not really knowing that we wanted , what was possible or even what gay people could do together besides have sex . |
| 7 | It was something quiet that we could do together . ’ |
| 8 | So can you g tell me any numbers that you could any two numbers you could multiply together to make twelve . |
| 9 | Why it comes in handy to know all the things that you could multiply together to know three hundred and sixty . |
| 10 | Under this system prisoners could work together and use the same dormitories , but they were forbidden to speak to one another or communicate in any other way ; they were , therefore , under constant close surveillance day and night . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't mean to be nasty or anything but I do n't really think we could work together , do you ? ’ |
| 12 | He continued to hope that he and the king could work together and , strangely enough , he seems to have had a great deal of personal sympathy with the king . |
| 13 | Sun 's Scott McNealy says the deal was forged after long-term discussions on how the two companies could work together . |
| 14 | The Helsinki Accords were significant in part because they showed that America and the Europeans could work together in defining Western aims , especially in the field of détente , and gave hope of lasting stability in Europe . |
| 15 | CAP had many positive effects , not least in showing that the Six could work together on a very complicated issue . |
| 16 | McLaren felt they could work together , and he started raising money on another project , to be entitled The Great Rock ‘ n ’ Roll Swindle — a documentary history of how McLaren and the Sex Pistols had taken the record industry for a ride . |
| 17 | Painters were no less involved than sculptors in the breakdown of archaic conventions , and this shows how closely they could work together . |
| 18 | Differences remained ; but it was also clear that in many cases the two countries could work together , on an equal and principled basis , without prejudice to the interests of other countries . |
| 19 | Shrewd , devious and Arab-looking , Dany Habib and Coleman took to each other on sight , despite their professional caution , sensing they could work together . |
| 20 | They also complained about unfairness , but there was no willingness to look at the charges or to have proper consultation with local authorities to see how they and the Government could work together to improve the general standards of our beaches . |
| 21 | Doubts about the military agreement centred on whether the army and the police could work together , given the traditional animosity between the two and pervasive drug-related corruption in both forces as a direct result of low pay . |
| 22 | We have to admit that each one of us could fail in what we were supposed to be doing and in fact then we could work together , that we could forgive each other and that we could support each other in our work . |
| 23 | Coventry possessed two big ones with assets totalling £321 , while the little village of Burnham Sutton , Norfolk , had no fewer than four , though they could scrape together only £11 . |
| 24 | As a family , therefore , we have perfectly happily left what little savings we could scrape together over the last 20 years or so with the Woolwich Building Society , whose efficiency and ethics we have never had any reason to doubt . |
| 25 | We were still in the Air Force , postings could come out of the blue at any time , so every hour we could spend together was important . |
| 26 | Afterwards Brewer said he could see Auckland holding the shield for as long as they could keep together their very strong scrum of Olo Brown , Sean Fitzpatrick , Steve McDowell , Michael Jones , Gary Whetton , Robin Brooke , Mark Carter and Zinzan Brooke — All Blacks all . |
| 27 | It offered Laura and Bernard endless possibilities for decoration inside and , after more than twenty years of marriage , it was the first large house they could plan together , yet another incentive towards developing the home furnishing side of the business . |
| 28 | She longed to be back in his arms , to let his lips open her own , to melt against him , to give — and to take — the delight which instinctively she knew they could create together . |
| 29 | ‘ I think Jimi would have still been fusing things , and when he got done finding everything that he could fuse together then he would have invented a couple more things and then fused them with everything else . |
| 30 | Clearly he set great store on the value of whole-tone harmony and the versatility of a system which could fuse together tonal zones which would otherwise not easily be compatible . |