Example sentences of "[verb] together for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gooch , manager Keith Fletcher and England chairman Ted Dexter all praised the Whittingdale sponsorship which has allowed them to gather together for two days in each of the last six weeks . |
| 2 | Engineers are devising a modular robot ( see picture ) comprising standard sections that can be joined together for specific applications . |
| 3 | Now 45 people had joined together for 2 hours of fun . |
| 4 | In 1918 he met the painter Arthur Lett-Haines ( 1894–1978 ) , and despite other liaisons the two lived together for sixty years until Haines 's death in 1978 . |
| 5 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 6 | T. Behrens 's book commemorates a young couple who lived together for seventeen years in a solitude à deux and who then took their own lives — incompetently and lingeringly . |
| 7 | They lived together for four years , and then two years ago they broke up . |
| 8 | Happily they lived together for several weeks , until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town . |
| 9 | Mothers and calves may remain together for many years , from 3–6 or even 8 years . |
| 10 | A spokesperson for the band confirmed a national tour is currently being pieced together for late autumn . |
| 11 | He and I do not perhaps instantly fit into the standard parliamentary stereotypes of the steady old stallion and the keen young foal who are usually harnessed together for this occasion . |
| 12 | If it is to be more than a symbolic marker of the moment when North and South decided in principle to work together for mutual survival , a number of decisions on how to administer it will have to be made . |
| 13 | And it is the exciting part of my job is to make these links work , start to build on them , and over our links in the city on the environmental and group with Tony Benn , that 's that 's doing a very good job , he is a platform for this , for each other , but I think there 's a lot more we can do locally erm within the city to build those links , and to work together for better answers for the city , and I hope that , on a practical level , one of the things that interested me was your grants team for local organisations , and I would like to think myself here today , we might look at the health authority , and try to join with them to make some erm practical contribution , particularly to those many carers , and groups of people who have problems , and we 're not all just professionals best able to put over during our normal nine-to-five or eight-to-eight days , we we can . |
| 14 | In the winter of 1940–41 a number of public figures contacted by the left-of-centre owner of Picture Post , Edward Hulton , agreed to work together for greater efficiency , vigour and democracy in the prosecution of the war . |
| 15 | A media education programme therefore presupposes that a group of people will continue to work together for several years . |
| 16 | BRING YOUR PATIO TO LIFE WITH PLENTY OF COLOUR , SUCH AS A COLLECTION OF BRIGHT LONG-LASTING FLOWERS IN POTS GROUPED TOGETHER FOR MAXIMUM IMPACT . |
| 17 | Inevitably , men pushed together for long periods of time became edgy and , by the time the prison was freed from the grip of the snow , three men had been knifed ( one of whom had lost a kidney ) and another had been beaten severely with a pool cue . |
| 18 | For when Erik and her husband , Trevor , from Oxford , eventually decided to tie the knot after living together for eight years , the prospect of a conventional white wedding did n't even enter their heads . |
| 19 | Anyway , they know each other pretty well , having been living together for two years now . |
| 20 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 21 | It was originally founded as the Deaf Friends ' Club for the oral deaf who desired to have the opportunity of meeting together for social intercourse and mutual improvement . |
| 22 | Unlike NATO , which came together for collective defence , the European Community includes neutral Ireland and may soon include neutral Sweden and Austria too . |
| 23 | Thus employers came together for mutual support since labour 's ( political ) goals posed a threat not merely to individual employers but collectively to employers as a class . |
| 24 | However , at the financial year end all the invoices that had been received but had not been paid would be collected together for each department say , and a total entry would be put through the books accruing all the payments due to be made . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As you yourself said , on Sunday , we have acted together for ten years and never had a quarrel , although we have had many a grave difference on questions of policy . |
| 27 | While the canal boatmen were away without their families the women who remained were drawn together for mutual support . |
| 28 | I think the whole idea of us managing to stick together for seven months , you know th the fact that we did , bar a few exceptions , you know it 's it 's amazing . |
| 29 | The Aquarium also has an attractive bar/lounge with colour TV and video , where Club clients get together for regular party nights . |
| 30 | Retirement and the receipt of a National Insurance pension were therefore tied together for 40 years until October 1989 , when the earnings rule and the retirement condition were abolished . |