Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He says that the kids pulled together as a team . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The almost blue water tumbled over myriad falls and drops like pearls strung together on a necklace , each one challenging but nowhere desperate . |
| 8 | One of two silver cups found together with a set of wine-drinking utensils in a grave . |
| 9 | Open sprung mattresses are generally cheaper buys with the coil springs held together within a framework of wire . |
| 10 | Open green pastures and the distinctive monoliths gathered together in a circle . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was in rumpled pyjamas , the trousers held together with a safety pin , but he had shaved and looked alert and cheerful . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The equipment consists of a number of machines linked together in a network . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He appeared to ignore her sarcasm , his brows drawn together in a frown . |
| 17 | His black brows drawn together in a frown , he turned away . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This material consists of a very large number of thin glass fibres glued together with a resin . |
| 20 | The first process is in part an aspect of the interaction of men grouped together in a society and engaged in production . |
| 21 | It showed three little girls in sandals and sundresses grouped together with a spaniel dog . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It 's beyond our Ken , TV 's voice of soccer and it 's top commentator through the 50s and 60s , that anyone could prefer the domestic Premier League highlights cobbled together for an hour on BBC 's Saturday night Match of the Day . |