Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] together [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of the summit was , above all , that it had taken place , and that the two leaders had been pictured together in amicable fireside discussion . |
| 2 | At the far end was a small rocky hillock as if huge boulders had been jammed together by the hand of some mythical giant . |
| 3 | The works of Metzinger , Gleizes and Le Fauconnier had been hung together by chance at the Salon d'Automne of 1910 , but the common characteristics which the critics saw in their styles , and the excitement expressed by the poets and authors at Mercereau 's and at the Closerie des Lilas over the possibilities of a new school of painting , seem to have made the painters aware of each other ; Apollinaire and Salmon in particular , although both were in many ways insensitive to painting , realized that Picasso 's latest style contained the elements of a new art , and felt that the work of several other painters was evolving in a similar direction . |
| 4 | Written application had been made in advance , and , except for four theses on loan , all had been collected together for this study either within the thesis area or in the thesis collection area of the Stack , to which access was permitted on this occasion . |
| 5 | I wish you and I had been tied together for ever ! ’ |
| 6 | Unbeknownst to keeper and defender , their laces had been tied together by Sid Dicker , Athletico sponge man and , for this match , replacement linesman . |
| 7 | The layers of horn and yew had been blended together with such care that it was hard to tell which was set upon which . |
| 8 | That is a reference back to the events of chapter 16 , and strange though it is , it is no more extraordinary than their wish in Exodus 16 that they had been killed together with the Egyptians at the time of the Passover . |
| 9 | By the day before the completion of sale all the goods in her house had been gathered together in one room downstairs , some packed in wooden crates , some in black leather cases and tapestry bags , some still living free . |
| 10 | Mr Hall denied this and maintained his 270 new recruits had been bonded together by the ugly scenes which confronted them each day as they passed picket lines . |
| 11 | The whole train , attired in the plum-and-spilt-milk livery of the LNWR and Caledonian Railways , had been assembled together by Rick Edmondson , then chairman of Rotherham diesel locomotive manufacturers Thomas Hill , and leased to the Great Scottish & Western Railway Company , under a fiveyear agreement . |
| 12 | The women had been crammed together like animals , she thought . |
| 13 | Again and again , people told me in Prague earlier this month how the Forum had been held together at difficult moments by his irrestistible decency and gentle authority . |
| 14 | The youth market , which had been held together in a fragile unity , fragmented : on the one hand into Teenybop , on the other into the Underground . |
| 15 | Had she been asked the same question in different surroundings her amazement might have been tempered with doubt that Nahum Morey was in his right mind , but in this confined space she began to share his conviction that they had been drawn together by their various needs . |
| 16 | The band had been thrown together at the last moment ; and none of the musicians looked or sounded as if he was enjoying the experience . |
| 17 | All his dealings had been with himself and that larger self of family which had been thrown together by marriage or accident : he had never been able to go out from his shell of self . |
| 18 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 19 | They had been brought together in St Petersburg two months ago . |
| 20 | It is as though the historic opponents of medieval times , the aristocrats and the guildsmen , had been brought together in harmony . |
| 21 | My one pound , seventeen shillings had been put together over a number of years by saving money given me on my birthdays by relatives . |
| 22 | The Mackie Memorial Library had been put together for just this purpose a hundred years before , and these were the very books being sold by Derbyshire library staff . |
| 23 | These were a mixed lot , for the University had been put together by stages since its original foundation in the late reign of George the Fourth . |
| 24 | However , after a £50,000,000 compensation package for UK depositors and employees had been put together by the Abu Dhabi government on July 30 , the High Court in London granted the bank a four-month delay to allow more time for majority shareholders to explore ways of reviving BCCI . |
| 25 | It was like a machine where every single bit was perfectly made , but had been put together by a one-handed nome in the dark . |
| 26 | Previously they had been grouped together in one modern frame . |