Example sentences of "[verb] together [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too .
2 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 .
3 The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 ‘ We 've always been really good friends but had n't worked together for a long time .
8 She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’
9 They had lived together for a long time , but the sister was now reaching the conclusion that the situation could not continue much longer :
10 And the two of them working together over a long time , they would work
11 On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that .
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