Example sentences of "they [verb] together [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage . |
2 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
3 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
4 | Tendrils from the two black shapes reached out to entwine with each other , pulling their cores closer together until , as Ace watched in amazement , they melded together into a single muscular column of flesh crowned with thorns . |
5 | They sit together in a non-smoking section . |
6 | Our first aim , therefore , is to isolate significant typical events and units of social life and activity , and then to probe for the underlying blueprint , often implicit rather than explicit , that will show how they fit together into a meaningful pattern . |
7 | Each side has maintained its own perceptual bubble but these have been made compatible so they fit together as a whole . |
8 | They moved together in a dance as old as time until finally Travis slid between her parted thighs , hands going to her hips to hold her tightly against him and feel his desire . |
9 | They interact together in a continuous , incredibly complex and unpredictable process . |
10 | The reporter thanked him , and the camera tracked him as he trudged over to the other members of the team and they headed together towards a dark crack in the hillside . |
11 | So much is this the case that , in the mid-seventeenth century , they came together in a formally institutionalized way in the founding of the Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge . |
12 | However , many of those connections which Walcott thought he had identified appear to have been tied together by little more than familial relationship ; he was not able to show that they acted together as a cohesive political force . |
13 | In London , the social circle of such characters was known as ‘ The Altogethery ’ , as they stuck together in a social mire of their own making . |
14 | They walked together across a cobbled square . |
15 | They walked together down a passage , Wickham on his way out and Darby seeking a colleague . |
16 | Charles suggested they get together at a later date to sort it out . |
17 | They worked together in a laboratory studying growth patterns and ‘ alkaloids ’ when they found the recipe for the continuous growth of living things . |
18 | They gather together in a dense fleet a thousand or more strong , and paddle steadily towards an inlet or a small bay , splashing vigorously with their wings and feet . |
19 | Between them they brought together in a hotel in Windsor the chairmen of sixty major companies in Britain and a crowd of bright , articulate members of the black community . |
20 | They gathered together under a tree and spread the food out . |
21 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |
22 | It was , after all , a wonderful sensation creeping through her in response to his lips , and she found herself drifting into co-operation with him , holding his perfect body against her , feeling his heart beat and knowing that they fitted together in a most satisfactory way . |
23 | They stood together for a moment in the doorway , linking arms proudly . |
24 | They stood together for a few moments , her head sunk in his mighty chest , his head finally bowed as he looked down on her . |
25 | When they travelled together in a police car they had driven around in silence . |
26 | It does not matter whether the successor and the tenant resided together in one or more houses or whether the residences were all council houses provided they resided together in a council house at the moment of death and provided that the successor and the tenant resided together during the period of 12 months prior to the death of the tenant . |
27 | They sat together for a few moments more , then he groaned . |
28 | Quite a lot is known about how neurones are interconnected in different parts of the brain , and how they work together as a computing device . |
29 | They have harmonic and melodic qualities which make them complete in themselves , yet they work together as a separate layer , in a kind of dialogue with the soprano melody . |
30 | Is he aware that that progress has been made not merely because of the skill of the consultants and of the nursing staff but because of the way they work together as a team ? |