I. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
add numbers together
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Add the two numbers together and divide by three.
alone together
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My wife and I like to spend time alone together away from the kids.
clipped together
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a stack of bills clipped together
close together
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They were sitting close together on the couch.
establish/piece together the facts (= find out what actually happened in a situation )
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The police are still piecing together the facts.
eyes locked together (= they could not look away from each other )
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Their eyes locked together for an instant.
hands clasped...together
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She stood with her hands clasped tightly together .
herded together
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The prisoners were herded together .
rubbed...hands together
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He rubbed his hands together with embarrassment.
slotted together (= put together using slots )
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All the wood parts come pre-cut so that they can be slotted together .
stood together (= stayed united )
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countries that have stood together in times of crisis
stuck together through thick and thin
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Then, families stuck together through thick and thin .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
act
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The two experimental set-ups were different, incompatible, and so could not act together .
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That's why I think it could be a group of them acting together .
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It had been unthinkable that either one of them could be ignored, much less the two acting together .
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Fifthly, the periodic meetings of Great Powers which together acted as self-appointed guarantors of international law and order.
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The strong impression I had was of a people who acted together because of a preconceived plan: a people programmed.
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Ducal servants from all areas acted together .
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Compassion is feeling and acting together .
add
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Superposition is of the essence of waves, which can be added together to reinforce or cancel each other out.
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Turnover has to be calculated by adding together the respective turnovers of all parent and subsidiary companies.
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Let us consider again the problem of adding together N values held in store locations 100, 101, 102, and so on.
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Your income will be added together and any benefit entitlement will be split equally between you.
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For this purpose the state pension and your earnings are added together , but the tax is deducted from your earnings.
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Nylon cord: To calculate the amount, add together the width of the blind plus four times the length.
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Many different component causes can add together to produce a particular outcome, a process known as multiple causality.
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Both companies, however, carelessly add together the money costs of fixed assets they acquired in different years.
band
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So desperate has the situation become that 18 estates have banded together and called in Dave Dunn.
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Some of the storekeepers had banded together to hire their own detective force; so had the railroads and hotels.
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They feel that they can band together with others in a kind of joint enterprise to beat the disease.
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To survive in the managed care environment, virtually all hospitals are banding together to increase their efficiency and keep costs competitive.
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Fortunately a small group of folk banded together determined to save the bird and the rescue operation began.
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They were forced to band together because the city was doing nothing for them.
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Those who feel threatened band together .
bind
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We are bound together by a common heritage of faith and culture.
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The boats are made mostly of rice straw, woven and bound together .
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The two sentences are bound together by a cohesive tie.
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They are bound together by common ancestry, a shared history, and a common cultural heritage, along with religion.
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Both camps have long been bound together by a shared interest in the punter's pound.
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In other words, Ahab fails to realize that good and evil are inextricably bound together and can not be separated.
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Because we are bound together , although he doesn't see it that way, by our interest in Belinda.
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Like a couple of convicts bound together by a ball and chain, neither could betray the other without exposing himself.
bring
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Each had a board of civil servants to bring together local representatives of central departments related to economic development.
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Jeanne Tripplehorn pairs with Dylan McDermott in this comedy about a ridiculous romantic and an utter realist brought together by destiny.
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Most of these bring together major property players, looking for quick wins through their bulk-buying power.
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The Surrealists had exposed and challenged some of the prevailing conditions by bringing together contemporary work with objects from earlier cultures.
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To coordinate this work, the existing nuclei of these parties must be brought together in an international organization.
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Elders, clan leaders and commanders were brought together by the council of churches.
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A symbol suggests ideas, it brings together different concepts and perceptions.
close
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The hedges are small trees that were planted very close together .
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Cbin in hand, feet close together , there was something coy and flirty about her.
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These horses show relaxed, peaceful outlines, with friends standing particularly close together .
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The rebel musketry fire was pouring... upon our men, who were closing together and rallying under the attack.
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The eyes were very close together .
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Short wavelengths, sent out in a beam, could also resolve small targets close together , such as aircraft in formation.
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Small intervals close together are pooled.
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Without knowing it, they have drawn quite close together .
cobble
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He has total control over the broadcasting media and the government that he laboriously cobbled together over an eight-month period.
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You must cobble together whatever both / and hybrid design will get the job done. 2.
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There is a bicycle built from bits of old sports equipment and a harp cobbled together from instruments.
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It is not that difficult to cobble together a budget that could at least appear to be balanced within five years.
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She cobbled together a rough draft and then rewrote it, trying to remove the more ostentatious signs of plagiarism.
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The Wisconsin experiment proved one could cobble together a fair approximation of a prairie.
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The politicians who cobbled together the convention's proposals still call themselves Unionists.
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They cobbled together their economic theories, then, while straddling the secular and the sacred.
come
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Where these factors come together a management buy-out is possible.
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My father always said that the child and the worst storm of winter came together .
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WHETHER or not the two Germanies are coming together too quickly, their cars certainly are.
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I think the marathon and altitude training came together finally.
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Now the emphasis is on families and communities, and everyone comes together for the feeding of the 30,000.
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Now their romantic urgings and formal ambitions have come together in an expansive exploration of the universe.
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And soon it all began to come together in the most wonderful way.
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By June 1950 a series of desperate needs had come together .
draw
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The family drew together to help each other, and most of them had additional sources of comfort.
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And in battle, you are all drawn together .
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But it was the first time these five principles had been drawn together and proclaimed specifically for the Gulf.
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An incident occurred during one session when the children were drawing together .
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We can return to these questions now, and draw together the strands of the preceding argument.
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Nevertheless, these volumes have drawn together many little-known areas of social insect and spider biology in lucid accounts.
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In March, Emap Digital was formed into a separate division drawing together Emap's established internet presence in one focused organisation.
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This team draws together researchers with experience in economic and social demography with epidemiology and statistics.
fit
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This description was entirely correct, but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together .
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The world and I fit together so well!
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A Youngman protégé could take over the old boy's lecturing responsibilities and everything would fit together rather nicely.
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But it can be an interesting team, an entertaining team when the parts fit together like Thursday night.
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But somehow, he thought, the lanky, lively lad and the small, dull-looking lass fitted together in friendship.
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To understand how all these three fit together , see Fig. 3. 7.
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The two fitted together even in the way the day took them.
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Systematic implies that the steps which are taken to meet objectives should fit together as a cohesive whole.
gather
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You will then need to gather together the necessary things to make an application.
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They would gather together , without husbands, would-be husbands, or bring-home work.
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When you have gathered together as much information as possible you set about defining your client's image.
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Nevertheless, the key idea is of grouping and gathering together .
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Dempster represents the biter-bit brigade, being a fairly constant topic whenever journos gather together .
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Kings and sheep and whinnying horses and Serving maids and beggar boys gathered together in the frosty imagined night.
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They have therefore gathered together an impressive group of sixteen experts and devised cast-iron vetting rules.
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This is the first time the family has gathered together in a year, and she wants them all to get along.
get
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I got together a bit of money - and there I was, on to the next part of the journey.
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When children get together , they watch television or play together.
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First you get together a batch of questions to be answered which supposedly measure intelligence or knowledge of some particular subject.
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Sal Baldenegro and I ought to get together again and sing a bunch of corridos.
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And one way and another he got together , in most weeks, as much spending money as a young working miner.
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You have to get together and say it and then you hope that both sides come to their senses, I suppose.
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Presumably her absence is itself a status display: you have to be really important to skip this little get together .
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Analysis Have the students get together in groups of four and compare their data sheets.
group
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If individuals of similar income were grouped together , the outcome might be unstable.
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A powerful outside conqueror can hold antithetical groups together .
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Non-fiction books are grouped together by subject.
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Your reference materials should be sorted out and grouped together around each subheading within the proposal outline.
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Artists who group together for financial reasons may choose a name which is no more explanatory than a number or numbers.
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Here and there the anti-Fascists were grouped together and running fights broke out with the Blackshirts.
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Can they be grouped together under titles?
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These business units are grouped together into divisions which represent areas of similar business interest.
hold
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She did things which were deeply unpopular to a large section of the political community which she was striving to hold together .
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The lemon should be held together at both ends.
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As long as it has a cover and is held together by staples, that's alright with you.
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The cans are held together by plastic, and you can see the red and white labels.
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Cut the loaf into about 12 slices, making sure that it still holds together at the base. 2.
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Add more water if mixture seems dry; dough should just hold together in large lumps.
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They were going to undo the spells that held together the vortex and bring back Chaos to the world.
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Despite many stresses and strains, it held together to the end, a great achievement.
huddle
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The Springboks team, led by Joost van der Westhuizen, huddled together and prayed.
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They huddled together in twos and threes, with the pretty little church standing back about half way down the village.
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The old men, terrified, bewildered, huddled together .
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A knot of figures were huddled together on the walkway.
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They huddle together or hide under a rock.
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No-one had noticed that while they huddled together the armour-plating had rusted away.
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Sometimes they were in heaps because they had huddled together , and some were scattered all along.
join
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As a result some of the hill farms are being joined together - amalgamated - and farm labourers are becoming unemployed.
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This determines how the pieces of steel meeting at that connection are joined together .
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The map sections should be joined together without the seams being visible.
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Aubrey and Maturin do not join together at sea until Page 147.
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After the visits, guests and Faculty members will join together for a buffet supper.
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In the figure of the bandit Joaquin Murieta, Californians of all races joined together to create a fable of payback.
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A divorce is decreed between wave and particle which quantum theory had for ever joined together .
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Big business joined together to form a climate change coalition to lobby successfully against the protocol.
link
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All movements of the taichi chuan form are linked together in a smooth, flowing sequence.
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Complex applications will require several networks to be linked together .
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It is here, where the doors are, that cars are linked together .
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Among the stories, anecdotes and images linked together by the moon image, Lugones introduces his pierrot.
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It consists of a number of locally-based groups, linked together by a holding committee on which the district groups are represented.
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The proposal is a flow of ideas sometimes overlapping but linked together in a chain of reasoning.
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Individual cells are linked together to form panels, and the panels in turn can be linked to form arrays.
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The modules can be offered as free standing courses, or linked together or with other modules in integrated programmes.
live
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We'd set on living together , and seeing how it worked out, with or without the baby.
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She knew a couple of friends elsewhere who lived together under the pretense of sharing an apartment or duplex.
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For the last year we have lived together in my flat.
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Then all worries ended, and they lived together in perfect joy.
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The couple later lived together , but insisted that their relationship had begun once she left school.
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They live together on a lushly beautiful dairy farm.
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This month we explore the modern dilemma of marriage versus living together .
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It is rare to find two or more species of Cryptocoryne living together .
lump
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However, I warn people against lumping together pindown and what has been happening in Leicestershire.
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She and a whole group of Communists whom the prosecutor had lumped together were to be tried later.
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Accordingly, we lump together the group and individual responses in the analyses reported below.
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All are lumped together under the heading insomnIa.
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The three businessmen-politicians can be lumped together , but only up to a point.
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We are all lumped together and stereotyped as rich.
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They object to the two giants being lumped together simply because they are hugely ambitious, colossally expensive and largely Texan.
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Although mines and booby traps are often lumped together and share a lethal simplicity, they are actually very different weapons.
mix
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Stir carefully to mix together , then cook for 3 minutes over a medium heat. 4.
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In small bowl, mix together oil, garlic and salt.
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Drain on kitchen paper. 2. Mix together all the dressing ingredients.
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Mix together the wet ingredients and add them to the dry, mixing together only till the flour disappears.
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Drain and allow to cool. Mix together the dressing and curry powder and add to the Quorn.
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In a cup or small bowl, mix together water and cornstarch until smooth; add to broth.
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Approximately equal amounts of each are powdered and mixed together thoroughly.
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Two colors of light that, when mixed together , make white light are called complementary colors.
piece
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I suppose I envy you, piecing together old Ash's world-picture.
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Researchers have pieced together the history of a reversal from other sources.
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The manager develops an understanding of his milieu by piecing together all the scraps of data he can find.
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The gun was pieced together over twenty years ago by Caltech geophysicist Tom Ahrens.
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Accident investigators have been at the scene this morning trying to piece together what happened.
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Equally questionable esthetically is the dashboard, which has a look of being pieced together from assorted parts.
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Casting her mind back, she tried to work out what it was, piecing together what she knew of him.
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Officials are still trying to piece together what happened before the fatal crash Sunday.
play
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We all have to really play together now.
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Sergeant and Master would play together .
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They played together for a long while.
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A band, large or small, that stays together plays better jazz together, and Rollins' sextet proves it.
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We play together in the summer, and we talk a lot.
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We were now ready - apart from the fact that the team had still not played together !
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They often chatted about playing together , and finally found an opportunity in 1957.
pull
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A useful activity is to pull together the governors of several neighbouring schools for training and updating on topical issues.
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A major question is, of course, how it is all pulled together to speak a meaningful sentence.
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In order to pull together the conclusions of these initiatives an International Conference is being held in the early summer of 1992.
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But for those few in the know, it is easy to pull together these facts into an interesting whole.
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Mix until the mixture pulls together and forms a ball.
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They were strong enough to pull together like brothers when it counted.
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It pulls together a series of wide-ranging recommendations for business, transport and education.
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Abstract ideas became focused as he pulled together previous work on neural nets.
put
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It is often circumstances that dictate what fish have been put together .
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Bill puts together this library once he figures out the varied interests of his students.
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Denyer decided to put together a mix of landscapes and portraits, images that gave him particular visual pleasure.
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Unlike many countries that pull themselves apart, Sri Lanka was not artificially put together .
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Lott put together a whip organization that worked with military precision to deliver the votes.
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Put together on a shoe-string over nearly two years, it's a collection of songs, weird and sad.
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After three months of hard work, as the team put together its final recommendations, their initial concerns resurfaced.
sleep
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She had obviously enticed Patrick to run away with her - were they sleeping together , she wondered briefly?
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For ten days we ate together , slept together, never spent two minutes apart.
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Leith's mouth fell open in surprise as she realised that this awful man thought she and Travis were sleeping together .
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If it is possible, we will sleep together .
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And, of course, not sleep together , which they mustn't do if they're living apart either.
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Jeff had some funny lines on sleeping together and swimming lessons at school strange how Len Fairclough kept cropping up.
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Seventy-five percent of couples said sleeping together all the time was a turn-off.
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We are sleeping together and that is good, too.
stand
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They stood together watching her, both of them moved by unfamiliar feelings.
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We stood together on the train platform, in silence.
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The great lady and the little gentleman stood together on the hearthrug.
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This happens especially with verbs that stand together when one comes to be felt as a mere satellite of the other.
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For some reason she recalled that moment during the afternoon when they had stood together on the slope looking down on Rocamar.
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In the middle of the room seven or eight men stood together , forming a boundary.
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While we stood together , praying, he began to cough again.
stay
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The idea that when people come together , they stay together.
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Psychologists have found that couples who lack moments of jealousy are less likely to stay together than jealous ones.
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We stayed together , and landed on a dark, windy night with no airspeed indicator or brakes.
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I also said that I truly wanted the team to stay together .
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And that is where we stayed together , until we heard the Compline bell.
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The moths have no need to stay together .
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It's essential for good vision that they stay together , particularly over the central area.
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By making breaking up harder to do, supporters believe that couples will focus more on staying together .
stick
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In public, at least, Solidarity is sticking together .
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The key was lineage; members of the Anglo-Saxon ascendancy stuck together .
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We tended to stick together too, although no-one accused us of being colonists.
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They stick together , and they stick close.
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So long as he can block Labour, his own party will stick together .
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Rebelling against the manager that formed them, the girls decided to stick together and make their own choices.
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They feel that they belong together , so they stick together.
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The great teams manage to stick together .
string
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In the dark we're strung together by a rope.
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Meanwhile, their offense strung together more than three first downs of their own only twice in the entire game.
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Of course, chains of amino acids are strung together only with the help of enzymes, and these are stereo-selective.
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Thus, bit by bit, the child learns to string together more complicated sequences.
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Bones are also put to practical use, strung together to make a kind of aeolian harp or wind chime.
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The speaking I strings together signifying chains according to socially acceptable codes of meaning.
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Voice over Agassi it was who strung together a great series of returns to the big serving Ivanisovic.
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Look for where the names pop out, or where they are strung together into sentences.
talk
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Oliver and Tim were talking together , Cobalt was waiting for his prey.
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Gorbachev wrote that only he and Reagan, talking together , could resolve the questions he raised.
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We talked together for about two hours.
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It was a story of memories and regrets and resolutions; a story of fathers and sons trying to talk together .
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When his friend comes, they talk together in this foreign language.
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They talked together whenever there was a halt.
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Talk together about any problems as honestly as possible.
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I saw him with Charlie Northrup up in the mountains, and they were talking together and walking around the front yard.
throw
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My costume had been somewhat haphazardly thrown together , the result being a cross between Mary Poppins and Nurse Matilda.
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I guess the modern equivalent of the actual party would be that Reform joke Ross Perot threw together .
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They shared political and intellectual interests and were often thrown together .
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The oldest one, thrown together and sealed in 1968, is now 25 years old.
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However, in cyberspace, geographical boundaries are irrelevant, and people of different views are thrown together .
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In very few cases are the boys and girls thrown together more than two years before their marriages.
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As we have seen, it isn't easy to throw together a flying machine.
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They spend long days in programs where children of many ages may be thrown together .
tie
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The result is that different networks such as ARCnet and Ethernet can be tied together into a single LANtastic internet.
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Her home consists of two battered green fishing boats tied together a few feet off a stretch of garbage-strewn Nile shoreline.
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Here, technique, perception and response were closely tied together .
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The whites and blacks were tied together in a web of interdependency-the whites through need and the blacks for survival.
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And when there are children they will be tied together by that strongest of all bonds.
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The network ties together a wide variety of government and university sites.
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They must look like something from a fair booth - a shrimp and a black giant tied together !
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The problem is especially serious for an episodic memory, which is a unique category that ties together a series of elements.
work
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And the group says if toddlers are to be protected in future, mothers everywhere must start working together .
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Teams must agree on how they will work together to accomplish their purpose and goals.
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I didn't get on with her either when we started working together .
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How can we work together to find these ways of being, relating, and creating?
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We worked together on gradually improving her diet.
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Which came first is anybody's guess, but the two are now working together to make the patient even more ill.
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But we hasten to caution you that we have met few successful couples who live together and work together.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bang/knock sb's heads together
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He caught hold of the two nearest him and knocked their heads together, kicked two more and grabbed the ringleaders.
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She'd just box a few ears, knock a few heads together like she did with the Rattries, and chase them off.
be bound (together) by sth
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The two groups were bound together by their hatred of the factory in which they worked.
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Decisions and actions are bound by precedent. 3.
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Furthermore, the nature of political authority in representative democracies means that governments are bound by doctrines of accountability.
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He was bound by golden handcuffs to the Salomon Brothers mortgage trading depart-ment.
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If the parties do not wish to be bound by time limits there should be none in the lease.
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The Martins too are bound by the same federal law and could be prosecuted.
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The political order is bound by values.
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The Revenue will not subsequently be bound by any information or statements given, whether expressly or implicitly in relation to the claim.
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They were bound by it so long as it was not in conflict with their statutory duty.
birds of a feather (flock together)
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He figured I had a hustle of my own going and that made us birds of a feather.
get it together
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Dundela got it together in the second half and it was Dean Smyth's turn to save his side.
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Engineers apart, there are no students who will ever manage to get it together to decide on pay.
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I can't seem to get it together at present.
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Now manufacturers are getting it together and offering brilliant greens, oranges and blues.
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Some one else had got it together for Adam and there it all was.
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They must have worked fast to get it together, Charles thought.
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When we get it together to be so.
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Why on earth can't they get it together?
get sb ↔ together
get sth together
get sth ↔ together
get sth ↔ together
get your act together
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Angie could be an excellent photographer, if only she could get her act together.
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Amateurs are invited to get their acts together for stage shows running the gamut from dance, comedy and music.
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As for your Suns, there are signs they are getting their act together.
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At least now they can get their act together.
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If we couldn't get our act together after all that, then we were never going to.
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Nevertheless, he was patient and, eventually, I got my act together and spent the night with him.
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Now, let's get our act together.
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The Whigs splintered over slavery in the pre-Civil War era and never again got their act together.
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Then he gets his act together.
go around with sb/go around together
keep body and soul together
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Struggling peasants they'd be for the most part, trying to keep body and soul together in difficult times.
knees knocking (together)
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Years later, Ogwen apprenticeship having been served, we began to aspire to their routes, knees knocking at our effrontery.
knock (sb's) heads together
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If you two don't stop yelling at each other, I'll knock your heads together!
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He caught hold of the two nearest him and knocked their heads together, kicked two more and grabbed the ringleaders.
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She'd just box a few ears, knock a few heads together like she did with the Rattries, and chase them off.
more ... than the rest/the others/everything else put together
not have two pennies/halfpennies/beans to rub together
pull sth together
pull yourself together
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Pull yourself together - you don't want him to see you crying like that.
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Pull yourself together. It's ridiculous to get upset about such a silly little thing.
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But then she pulled herself together.
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Head in her hands, she tried to pull herself together.
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In March, 1939 I pulled myself together sufficiently.
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It's about time Joe pulled himself together.
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It took them seconds to pull themselves together and reorganize themselves.
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This was another occasion on which, as Margie put it, Margarett pulled herself together.
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Yet, again and again, now as before, the people have pulled themselves together and gotten on with life.
put two and two together
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When we found the money and the drugs in his room, it was easy to put two and two together.
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As it is, Krauss is probably putting two and two together.
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He can be trusted to put two and two together.
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He saw the pits, he saw my father, and he put two and two together.
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His friends put two and two together, and so did the media, which beseiged his home by telephone and helicopter.
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If they found the coins they might put two and two together.
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In 1989 Congress put two and two together, in a programme to sell the government's houses to the poor.
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It is not difficult to put two and two together.
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Still nobody in the chemical industry put two and two together.
put your heads together
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150 government leaders are putting their heads together to discuss how to curb the production of greenhouse gases.
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The challenge is to put our heads together and think of a new way of working.
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We'll put our heads together after work and see if we can come up with a solution.
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Anyway, we can put our heads together later and see if it means anything.
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Emily and I put our heads together after office hours and came up with the answers we needed.
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Fearing the ships might founder on coastal rocks, the admiral summoned all his navigators to put their heads together.
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He will be less easy to understand if you literally put your heads together.
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Stevie and I are going to put our heads together to try and reconstruct them for Midge.
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The next day Martha and I would put our heads together and decide what should be done.
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They put their heads together, from thousands of miles away.
spend the night with sb/spend the night together
string words/a sentence together
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Female speaker I can say the odd word, but I can't string a sentence together yet.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Each year the whole family spends Christmas together .
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For years, these people who are now at war lived together very peacefully.
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I glued the vase back together .
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I hope both countries can come together on this issue.
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I mailed both packages together .
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It rained for four days together .
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Nicola and I were at school together .
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Now add the numbers together to get the subtotal.
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Taken together , these measures should ensure a rapid return to financial stability.
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The Baltimore and Boston trains came in together .
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The Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary branches together make up the US government.
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The police and army worked together to track down the terrorists.
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The shampoo and conditioner should be used together for the best possible result.
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The two leaders chatted together for fifty-four minutes.
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There's no point in taking two cars - let's go together .
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They banged their heads together trying to catch the ball.
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They lived together during college.
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Three runners crossed the line together .
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We'd better stay together , or we might get lost.
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When you're slowing down, use the gears and the brakes together .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Floggings went on anywhere or at any time during the Babel of different and vocal classes in session together .
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He folded together the last of the computer printouts and slipped them into a ziploc file bag.
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Members aged from five to fifty meet up to three times a week to practise their judo moves together .
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They were in their early twenties, were quietly efficient and worked well together .
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Those who feel threatened band together .
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We put together a team, leave a dim trail.
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Without these codes, the two columns run together .
II. adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bang/knock sb's heads together
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He caught hold of the two nearest him and knocked their heads together, kicked two more and grabbed the ringleaders.
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She'd just box a few ears, knock a few heads together like she did with the Rattries, and chase them off.
birds of a feather (flock together)
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He figured I had a hustle of my own going and that made us birds of a feather.
get it together
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Dundela got it together in the second half and it was Dean Smyth's turn to save his side.
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Engineers apart, there are no students who will ever manage to get it together to decide on pay.
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I can't seem to get it together at present.
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Now manufacturers are getting it together and offering brilliant greens, oranges and blues.
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Some one else had got it together for Adam and there it all was.
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They must have worked fast to get it together, Charles thought.
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When we get it together to be so.
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Why on earth can't they get it together?
get sb ↔ together
get sth together
get sth ↔ together
get sth ↔ together
get your act together
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Angie could be an excellent photographer, if only she could get her act together.
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Amateurs are invited to get their acts together for stage shows running the gamut from dance, comedy and music.
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As for your Suns, there are signs they are getting their act together.
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At least now they can get their act together.
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If we couldn't get our act together after all that, then we were never going to.
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Nevertheless, he was patient and, eventually, I got my act together and spent the night with him.
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Now, let's get our act together.
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The Whigs splintered over slavery in the pre-Civil War era and never again got their act together.
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Then he gets his act together.
go around with sb/go around together
keep body and soul together
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Struggling peasants they'd be for the most part, trying to keep body and soul together in difficult times.
knees knocking (together)
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Years later, Ogwen apprenticeship having been served, we began to aspire to their routes, knees knocking at our effrontery.
knock (sb's) heads together
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If you two don't stop yelling at each other, I'll knock your heads together!
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He caught hold of the two nearest him and knocked their heads together, kicked two more and grabbed the ringleaders.
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She'd just box a few ears, knock a few heads together like she did with the Rattries, and chase them off.
more ... than the rest/the others/everything else put together
not have two pennies/halfpennies/beans to rub together
pull sth together
pull yourself together
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Pull yourself together - you don't want him to see you crying like that.
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Pull yourself together. It's ridiculous to get upset about such a silly little thing.
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But then she pulled herself together.
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Head in her hands, she tried to pull herself together.
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In March, 1939 I pulled myself together sufficiently.
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It's about time Joe pulled himself together.
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It took them seconds to pull themselves together and reorganize themselves.
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This was another occasion on which, as Margie put it, Margarett pulled herself together.
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Yet, again and again, now as before, the people have pulled themselves together and gotten on with life.
put two and two together
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When we found the money and the drugs in his room, it was easy to put two and two together.
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As it is, Krauss is probably putting two and two together.
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He can be trusted to put two and two together.
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He saw the pits, he saw my father, and he put two and two together.
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His friends put two and two together, and so did the media, which beseiged his home by telephone and helicopter.
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If they found the coins they might put two and two together.
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In 1989 Congress put two and two together, in a programme to sell the government's houses to the poor.
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It is not difficult to put two and two together.
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Still nobody in the chemical industry put two and two together.
put your heads together
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150 government leaders are putting their heads together to discuss how to curb the production of greenhouse gases.
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The challenge is to put our heads together and think of a new way of working.
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We'll put our heads together after work and see if we can come up with a solution.
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Anyway, we can put our heads together later and see if it means anything.
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Emily and I put our heads together after office hours and came up with the answers we needed.
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Fearing the ships might founder on coastal rocks, the admiral summoned all his navigators to put their heads together.
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He will be less easy to understand if you literally put your heads together.
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Stevie and I are going to put our heads together to try and reconstruct them for Midge.
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The next day Martha and I would put our heads together and decide what should be done.
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They put their heads together, from thousands of miles away.
spend the night with sb/spend the night together
string words/a sentence together
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Female speaker I can say the odd word, but I can't string a sentence together yet.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Rosie's a really together person - she'll be great as the coordinator.
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You'll have to be a bit more together when you have kids.