Example sentences of "together [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | What right did he have to come back into her life like this , trying to shatter it into little pieces that could n't be put back together for a second time ? |
2 | ‘ We 've always been really good friends but had n't worked together for a long time . |
3 | They had lived together for a long time , but the sister was now reaching the conclusion that the situation could not continue much longer : |
4 | CHARLES and Diana will be together for a long time to come . |
5 | Earlier marriages with fewer children means that couples are together for a long time after their children have left home . |
6 | We splashed and laughed and played together for a long time , sharing their delight at looking underwater through a diving mask for the first time . |
7 | On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that . |
8 | Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much . |
9 | The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’ |
10 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
11 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |
12 | They stood clasped together for a long time , then he bent his head and kissed her , softly at first , then with such increasing passion that she could feel his heart beating like a drum . |
13 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |
14 | And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments |
15 | And the two of them working together over a long time , they would work |
16 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |