Example sentences of "[v-ing] together [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she reached the foot of the narrow stair Penry emerged from the kitchen , his black eyebrows knitting together in a daunting frown at the sight of her . |
| 2 | To quote the Federation 's annual report for 1948–49 , ‘ one purpose of the Federation ’ is ‘ that of bringing together in a friendly atmosphere the members of different Branches and Groups and thereby strengthening the unity and spirit of the WEA in Essex ’ . |
| 3 | We start by bringing together in a compact and comparative form the key data for the various groups of intermediaries , in Table 4.3 . |
| 4 | Bernice could see Legion 's body splitting into a firework display of multi-coloured fronds , and slowly drawing together into a hairy black ovoid supported by three pipe-cleaner legs . |
| 5 | We were appearing together at a literary lunch in Cleethorpes — he was promoting the latest edition of his diaries — and someone was playing the organ whilst we were eating . |
| 6 | Ecosystem was a term proposed by the plant ecologist A.G. Tansley in 1935 as a general term for both the biome which was ‘ the whole complex of organisms — both animals and plants — naturally living together as a sociological unit ’ and for its habitat . |
| 7 | The band , forced to play covers of Beatles songs and American country music ( the staple diet of Rhodesian radio ) , immediately switched to traditional African songs written specifically about celebrating freedom and living together in a new country . |
| 8 | There is also some evidence that couples are living together in a stable relationship without being married , having a child , and then getting married later . |
| 9 | For example , the ‘ village community ’ can signify nothing more than a type of settlement — a small number of people living together in a rural location usually in a nucleated pattern . |
| 10 | Andrew Kuttner , Pat Sutton and Eddie Welch have been training together on a regular basis at the Sports Centre for two years . |
| 11 | Firstly , they bind a piece of writing together as a single entity , giving it a connectedness that makes it read as a whole rather than as a string of separate jottings . |
| 12 | The individual course , and the student experience on that course , can not constitute a ‘ secret garden ’ , but must be open for critical examination by the staff acting together as a corporate body . |
| 13 | This posits that the company or any group of individuals acting together for a common purpose creates a living organism , or a real person , capable of willing and acting through the people who are its organs just as a natural person wills and acts through their brain , mouth and hands . |
| 14 | The accused and that person were acting together in a dishonest enterprise . |
| 15 | My vision is of a team pulling together with a common aim and purpose to give glory to God and see His Kingdom extended in our part of the South Side of Glasgow . |
| 16 | By calculating which gods would be marching together on a given day , the priests could determine the combined influence of all marchers and thus forecast the fate of mankind . |
| 17 | We began flying together in a Raven flew-wing microlight that we owned , and spent two very happy years flying around Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire in her . |
| 18 | Jane had had wide imaginings of everybody 's abilities coming together to a common end , but fortunately she had kept her thoughts to herself . |
| 19 | These , as he entered the headship , were coming together as a mixed voluntary-aided comprehensive high school . |
| 20 | The traditional system for involvement of clinicians at District level incorporates some element of divisional structures for different specialities coming together as a representative body as the Medical Executive Committee . |
| 21 | The story is similar in other areas , with an older organization or group of charities coming together as a local Family Welfare Association . |
| 22 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 23 | On Easter Sunday and Monday April 19th and 20th , farm shops and food and drink producers from southern England are coming together at a traditional food fair at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum , Singleton , near Chichester , to show how local produce can be bought on a regional basis . |
| 24 | In 1704 Petiver and Sherard carried out a botanising expedition in a stylish manner , travelling together in a two-horse chaise with a servant . |
| 25 | The other dead men are David Russell , 22 , of Lochgelly , and Graham Spence , 39 , of Crosshill , who were travelling together in a white transit . |
| 26 | The regional realignment during the Gulf war , he contended , had meant Arab states and Israel standing together against a common aggressor , Iraq . |
| 27 | They were sitting together over a rough table in a room in a farmhouse outside Abergavenny . |
| 28 | When the door swung open , I could see nothing but bars of light , curving together like a luminous zebra skin high above . |
| 29 | There is something beautifully simple and old fashioned about the whole family working and playing together on a warm afternoon beside a clean , bubbling stream . |
| 30 | He and his partner , Gary Armstrong , playing together in a major international for the 25th time , plus a few other Scots , must have booked their places on the forthcoming British Lions tour to New Zealand . |