Example sentences of "[pron] together and [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With help from a tutor I finally put them together and fitted them into the cubic box I was given . |
| 2 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 3 | " We 're going to string them together and hang them on our Christmas tree . " |
| 4 | Even though no two people speak or write in just the same way , groups of people share sufficient language characteristics ( of accent , vocabulary and grammar ) to bind them together and to distinguish them from other groups . |
| 5 | You must tie them together and bury them under the great gate of the city . |
| 6 | He shuffled papers , bringing them together and placing them to one side , face downwards . |
| 7 | But in the UK more than 90 per cent of all aluminium cans are still thrown away — collect yours together and take them to a scrap-metal dealer . |
| 8 | Ronni pulled herself together and looked him in the eye . |
| 9 | The oven was made of sheets of iron , in sections ; and you could fit it or pin it together and dismantle it after use . |