Example sentences of "[vb past] together a " in BNC.

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1 He got together a serious amount of cash and called a meeting with the skaters to ask them what they wanted ; 3 skaters turned up .
2 Through his own efforts , he got together a group of people interested in the spiritual care of the blind as well as the deaf and formed the Leeds United Institution for the Blind , the Deaf and the Dumb in 1850 although it was not until 1875 that the foundation stone of their first centre was laid .
3 A research scientist called Mulk got together a group of followers and created two robots , assassination machines designed to put an end to Bangler 's reign of terror , once and for all …
4 Shortly after his arrival he got together a conference of Anglo-Burmans , who agreed that when they returned to Burma they would ally themselves more closely with the people of the country rather than as exclusively with the British side of their heritage as they had tended to do in pre-war days .
5 We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired .
6 As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby .
7 Well , we sort of got together a couple of times — he was an interesting sort of man — done a lot of sailing , single-handed stuff .
8 So Ralph got together a group of dealers people like Sidney Janis , Alexandre Rosenberg , Klaus Perls , Pierre Matisse .
9 We got together a group of important dealers and they all came over and testified , and the gallery owner said the artist was lying , but in the end the show was closed and the gallery closed .
10 Between Silver and myself , we got together a crew of the toughest seamen you can imagine .
11 Arrese got together a study-group of hard-line Falangists , whose mission was to draft four documents : a new version of the Party Statutes , which had last been revised seventeen years earlier , in August 1939 ; a law of the Fundamental Principles of the State , which was to encapsulate the basic tenets of Francoism ; a law of the Movement , which was to give legal form to the distinction between " the Party " , FET y de las JONS , as a clearly delimited group of political activists , and " the Movement " , which encompassed all those who actively or passively subscribed to the values which inspired Francoism ; and an Organizational Law of the Government , which was to lay down ground-rules for the legislative and executive powers of the government .
12 In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard .
13 Open champion Faldo threaded together an immaculate last round of 67 , including four birdies and not a dropped shot , to finish joint second with three others on 281 .
14 Some of his achievements are cheered by all , or nearly all : the way in which he stitched together an international coalition against Saddam Hussein ; the way he managed to use the United Nations to prosecute American policy ; his courage .
15 She cobbled together a rough draft and then rewrote it , trying to remove the more ostentatious signs of plagiarism .
16 He cobbled together a brunch of cold remains from the fridge , with lemon tea .
17 Agassi it was who strung together a great series of returns to the big serving Ivanisovic .
18 They played together a couple of evenings every month , but after that first time by mutual consent they never made love in her house , any more than they did in his .
19 Right so if we added together a sixth and a twelfth what will it make ?
20 They danced together a lot . ’
21 He reckoned that the population of the day numbered somewhere between six and nine hundred people , but he based this on the fact that the laird pressed together an army of a hundred men for the ‘ 45 , and according to Johnson ‘ the sixth part of a people is supposed capable of bearing arms ’ .
22 It was from these informants that he pieced together a picture of organised crime as being controlled by key personnel in the police force , local government , business and the legal profession .
23 Well we were all union members , and everybody wanted to be together , if you are if you are in the union well we had to stuck together an the the more we stayed together the stronger we are , to keep out if we can stay out .
24 And a fresh , even an iconoclastic , influence , even a little healthy rivalry , could be more effective operationally than the collusive and macho freemasonry which frequently bound together a team of all male officers .
25 In 1963 he called together a representative meeting to discuss plans to move forward from the Curriculum Steering Group and create a new and ( of course ) co-operative body which would assume responsibility for the national examination system , for giving advice on the school curriculum , and for relating the two .
26 Realising that things were getting behind , Roycroft pulled together a policy group consisting of himself , Gary Smith , and Clare Dodgson ( chief executives of the health authority and the family health services authority ) .
27 And there were two of us worked together a lad my age and myself .
28 We seemed to get on awfully well on the court , and we laughed together a lot during the game .
29 That 'd be nice if we all went together a lot with Oliver would n't it ?
30 Even so , when we gathered together a superb voluntary team of some of the UK 's top communicators for both the 1983 and 1987 General Elections , the Conservative Party could not find any strategic use for them .
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