They had just assembled when the second plane, United Airlines Flight 175, slammed into the South Tower.
Others aver that there was no sloganeering – instead, they say the Muslims had just assembled for the Eid prayers when the Hindus became provoked and started throwing stones and shooting, to which the Muslims also responded.
Then he held up a plate of burgers he had just assembled from the flank muscle and lard, "in an 80 percent -- 20 percent mixture," he said of meat to fat.
ON Day 50 of his life as a chief executive, Jack L. Stahl of Revlon was spending much of his time on a drugstore floor, stacking lipsticks and eye shadow into a new display case he had just assembled.
The pockets of people that remained wore blocks of cheese atop their heads and chanted, "Go, Pack, Go!" The Jets had just assembled a clunky, forgettable performance, filled with the kind of miscues that doom football teams, like turnovers, penalties and mistakes.
I only got stuck once, although it was for nearly an hour, trying to figure out why the piece I had just assembled didn't have holes on the same side as the slats I already nailed in... all five of them.
Two weeks ago, wearing a tie for a major moment of his own making -- even if Boston's Theo Epstein chose the frat boy staples of a T-shirt and oxford -- Curt Schilling was flush with the satisfaction of a man who had just assembled his own destiny.
In his report, the chief justice made passing reference to the events of Sept. 11, which resulted in the evacuation of the Supreme Court building, where judges from around the country had just assembled for the semiannual meeting of the Judicial Conference of the United States.
It may seem like a postmodern meta-textual exercise to be making a tiny flat-pack bed inside a scale-model flat-pack house that you have just assembled from its own description, but you are Guardian readers and I know you can cope.
