Example sentences of "[verb] together [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years :
2 If she would like the family and close friends to gather together for a meal or light refreshments after the service and committal , you will of course have prepared for this beforehand .
3 The men lived together in a compound or — to use their term — a cage .
4 So much so that even when I had abandoned hopes of luring her into my narrow and uncomfortable bed , we frequently got together for a drink or a cheap meal .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The first process is in part an aspect of the interaction of men grouped together in a society and engaged in production .
8 Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father .
9 I attended the final meeting , at which the member states , guided by the Dutch presidency , came together behind a text that they found acceptable .
10 It should be remembered by the advisers that , following completion , the management and the investors will work together as a team and it is not in the investors ' interests to antagonise or demoralise their management team at the outset .
11 The crowd joined together in a hymn before a blessing was given by the rector .
12 I hope we all want to help together as a team and support our already stretched full-time officials .
13 And there are records of this everywhere are n't there you know sort of and and probably you know the the management thought er I do n't know if they thought this far really or we 'll we 'll show them that they ca n't that they ca n't stick together as a union and why should all the quarries stick together .
14 ‘ Lately I 've been getting a hankering to play country music again , so I 've got together with a friend and put together a fun band called Modern Farmer .
15 He hardly comprehended what had been happening ; the reality and unreality merged together like a nightmare or a melodrama .
16 His wife , Shirley , believed we 'd been brought together for a reason and , after a while , she reckoned my sight would be healed .
17 These opposing views should be brought together in a paragraph or essay .
18 The islands could hardly survive without an export crop : some progress was being made in establishing cotton-growing when , in the 1640s , English politics and Dutch commerce worked together in a way that decided the course of the West Indies for centuries .
19 A theory is a model whose internal logic we understand together with a claim that reality conforms to the concepts and logic of the model .
20 " Fever and the jungle go together like a carriage and pair , Chuck , " said the senator lightly .
21 The Swinging ‘ Sixties , Peace and Love and the Beatles go together like a horse and carriage .
22 Fifty years ago , when the world was younger and sex was an altogether simpler if scarcer commodity , there was a popular song , the lyrics of which brooked no argument : ‘ Love and marriage , love and marriage , go together like a horse and carriage .
23 The other girls went together in a group but I was on my own , and I suppose someone could have followed me from the dance …
24 They gathered together under a tree and spread the food out .
25 And yes , she had meant what she had said in her note , that it 'd be nice to get together for a chat and … things .
26 mm , mm , were , were talking about what happens when people who have fallen in love get together and decide to stay together for a bit and its been suggested that marriage can put some strains on er what started off as a very heady mutual experience , if your lucky , let me ask you this , do you think marriage destroys love ? , button one for yes and button two for no , does marriage destroy love ? , as you understand it mm a few are not sure but thirty people have said yes , who said yes
27 A form arrived with the instruction ‘ State exactly how loss occurred ’ , and I wrote ‘ Lord Haig 's dog Wasp and I were sitting together on a sofa when I discovered he was eating my sweater ’ with the gravest doubts that I would be believed .
28 Sitting together on a settee as they faced hostile questioning , Bill Clinton seemed at first to be struggling as he was tackled over the Flowers affair .
29 Though Christie 's says that the Vung Tau sale is lotted to encourage private buyers , with sets of between five and nine matching vases offered per lot ( and designed to be shown , as they were in the 17th century , massed together on a chimneypiece or high shelf ) , Cohen believes buying is more easily done through a dealer .
30 The fierce rivalries of teams and top competitors has masked the warmth of participating together in a team or standing on the terraces cheering on your side .
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