Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] together " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ace glanced around , noting the clay bottles and pots sealed with wax that were stacked together in rickety cupboards . |
| 2 | A flower study by the seventeenth-century Flemish painter , Baptiste , is certainly by the artist , and bears his signature : but the blooms ( and signature ) were pieced together from pirated canvases . |
| 3 | The last minutes of their lives were pieced together by forensic teams hunting the killers . |
| 4 | Consequently , mental phenomena could emerge from a physical system which does not contain neurons at all , if its physical components were arranged together in a particular way . |
| 5 | A couple of Minutemen were binding together two cloth-padded lengths of wood . |
| 6 | The children went into voluntary care in June 1991 and were placed together with foster parents . |
| 7 | In one period , all were placed together as if spelled out in full as ‘ MAC ’ . |
| 8 | In one period , all were placed together as if spelled out in full as ‘ MAC ’ . |
| 9 | When all the plates were riveted together , the structure would form a square tube fourteen feet wide and about twenty-five feet high overall — big enough for a train to pass through . |
| 10 | They were fastened together , too , in such a way that they moved with the person — who was Mama . |
| 11 | When thse same agents were given together with ia saline , the ICJ transit was not significantly altered . |
| 12 | We strongly suspected that when these Black women sought assistance , eg from local authority housing departments , institutionalised racism plus the sexism they experienced , were compounded together and further exasperated their problems . |
| 13 | The two figures have been kind of squelched together just as in , in Exodus there are two , sorry in erm in er Genesis there are two er Garden of Eden stories so they claim there are two Moses figures who have been erm as it were compounded together , but both of them says Freud were powerful religious leaders and they probably did give their followers moral principles , perhaps not exactly as we have but something very like it and so Freud is not sceptical about that . |
| 14 | George Lodge and Gilbert Blaine must have been old acquaintances for they were hawking together in Caithness in 1913 . |
| 15 | Both applications were heard together , on the preliminary point of whether the Divisional Court had jurisdiction , on 13–14th February 1992 , the Bar Council being represented by Counsel . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Reading Council were lashing together a municipal PR exercise , using as a dodgy pretext the 400th anniversary of the destruction of the local abbey by Henry VIII . |
| 17 | And , quickly now , the irrevocable moment was approaching , when his passion , which she could feel hard against her , would demand fulfilment , and in doing so might destroy the fragile palace of love which they were building together . |
| 18 | As the helicopter came down to land , to their dismay they saw that the organizers had not only laid on about fifteen different activities for the Prince to inspect , including mountain-bike scrambling ; but children from no fewer than five primary schools were gathered together in great banks to greet him . |
| 19 | But the paper lived on — in congressional hearings , in national newspapers and in heated disputes wherever two or more scientists were gathered together . |
| 20 | When two or three such persons were gathered together at our servants ' hall — I mean of the calibre of , say , Mr Graham , with whom now , sadly , I seem to have lost touch — we would have some of the most stimulating and intelligent debates on every aspect of our vocation . |
| 21 | The first observation I was able to make when the books were gathered together was that , although almost all the press coverage had been about public libraries , since they were the focus of political controversy , only c . |
| 22 | Dissatisfied as he was , it was while Bishop of Bristol that he made the moral stand which guaranteed that his name would be heard for three centuries whenever Cornish men were gathered together . |
| 23 | If a group of young people , from all races , all countries and bearing all creeds were gathered together after having been introduced to the concept of the Created God , and were able to set aside , for the time being , their own taught beliefs , they would find that they had been offered an area of religious discussion which would be on completely neutral ground . |
| 24 | In this country this achievement was largely due to the group of highly intelligent young men who were gathered together at Farnborough in the famous Chudleigh Mess in the first War . |
| 25 | This year 's Convention remembered the Doolittle Raiders an impressive collection of B–25 Mitchell bombers were gathered together to re-enact that historic first air attack ( April 18 , 1942 ) by US Forces on Japan , operating , as President Roosevelt called it , from Shangri La ! |
| 26 | One of the monks , describing the presence , said he could ‘ perceive the fragrance of such a wonderful odour , as if all the flowers on earth were gathered together in one place ; I feel also a glow of heat within me — not at all painful , but most pleasing — and a certain unusual and unexplainable joy poured into my heart , which all of a sudden so refreshes and gladdens me I forget grief and weariness of every kind ’ . |
| 27 | Earlier in 1912 Apollinaire had written a series of articles for Les Soirées de Paris and these were gathered together with some additional material to form the bulk of his Les Peintres Cubistes which was issued in March of the following year . |
| 28 | The ingredients were gathered together for me by Lord Wittisham , the kidneys themselves prepared by Mr Pegg , and I attended to the final cooking and preparation of the sauce . ’ |
| 29 | One of the features of the 1991 Experimental Aircraft Association convention at Oshkosh , was a celebration of the Golden Age of Air Racing , when as many as possible of the surviving pre-war racers were gathered together . |
| 30 | He was taken out of the garden at put on trial , all the others were gathered together swiftly Normally a Jewish trial would take much longer than this . |