Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] together [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Jonathon had a high , airy attic , freshly whitewashed , with a little iron bed with a cover made of knitted squares sewn together like a refugee blanket . |
3 | The conference would become a rally before which John Major must perform , reading from a thirty-minute script cobbled together by a squad of clever young men . |
4 | Their eyes locked together for an instant , and Alyssia felt suddenly dizzy , as though the breath had been knocked out of her , then she regained her self-control , and replied politely , ‘ I 'll be down for lunch . ’ |
5 | Their eyes locked together for an instant , and she felt as though he was seeing right into her soul , into bits of her that no one had ever seen before . |
6 | He says that the kids pulled together as a team . |
7 | 1 a polymer molecule consists of a large number of identical monomer units strung together in a chain ( linear polymer ) or in some other geometrical arrangement , which may be quite a complicated three-dimensional one . |
8 | The almost blue water tumbled over myriad falls and drops like pearls strung together on a necklace , each one challenging but nowhere desperate . |
9 | One of two silver cups found together with a set of wine-drinking utensils in a grave . |
10 | Open sprung mattresses are generally cheaper buys with the coil springs held together within a framework of wire . |
11 | Open green pastures and the distinctive monoliths gathered together in a circle . |
12 | Both views are right ( Handy and Aitken 1986:34 ) : In that they are collections of individuals brought together for a purpose , schools are subject to all the problems , limitations and excitements that are inherent in getting people to work together , wherever they do it . |
13 | He was in rumpled pyjamas , the trousers held together with a safety pin , but he had shaved and looked alert and cheerful . |
14 | If the adult plants are looking weary , then these can be removed , the severed stems picked over , the healthiest pieces bunched together with a strip of lead or piece of wire , and then replanted in the vacant baskets . |
15 | The equipment consists of a number of machines linked together in a network . |
16 | It 's a frustrating exercise to wander backwards and forwards through a full-sized abstract , its plans and pages held together by a thread or a rusty pin , pursuing some trivial and tedious point . |
17 | It 's a real effort to click back to that frame of mind , which is bad because fanaticism is the true experience of pop , not discrimination and broad-mindedness — I think of the splendid devotion of all those boys and girls , who as soon as they 've got hold of the new Cure or New Order or Bunnymen record , immediately set to learning the lyrics by heart , then spend days exhaustively interpreting the Tablets From on High , struggling to establish some fit between their experience and what is actually some drunken doggerel cobbled together in a studio off-moment . |
18 | He appeared to ignore her sarcasm , his brows drawn together in a frown . |
19 | His black brows drawn together in a frown , he turned away . |
20 | A besom is a particular kind of brush made from bundles of tough twigs such as heather stems tied together round a handle of , for instance , hazel . |
21 | This material consists of a very large number of thin glass fibres glued together with a resin . |
22 | The first process is in part an aspect of the interaction of men grouped together in a society and engaged in production . |
23 | It showed three little girls in sandals and sundresses grouped together with a spaniel dog . |
24 | Anderston was a warren of narrow gas-lit streets , of tenements linked together by a spider 's web of overhead tram wires , swaying in the wind above the cobbles . |
25 | Aunt Tossie 's dressing-table was a picture of proper arrangement , quite unlike her tumbled bed , or the pink satin corset playing fast and loose with the long slit drawers thrown together on a tapestry chair — a chair covered in great beaded roses , laughing at the fun , over one arm black lace stockings trailed negligent as if there was no tomorrow . |
26 | Charity stared , stunned , at the open , upside-down jewellery box on her bathroom floor , and at the necklace that winked up at her , looking like a dozen teardrops strung together on a web of silver . |
27 | ‘ He had a 21-day trek planned together with a rafting expedition . ’ |
28 | He had an artificial jaw held together by a gold armature , and his twisted smile revealed two solid rows of gold teeth . |
29 | This followed a succession of smaller mergers during the previous decade as the once dominant , but then struggling , independent British car makers joined together in an attempt to gain economies of scale and to maintain their market share in the face of fierce international competition . |
30 | A limitation is placed upon the accuracy with which one can specify the amount of energy transferred together with a knowledge of the time at which the transfer took place . |