Example sentences of "[verb] himself together " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had n't made university and the difference between their comfortable life style — houses on an executive estate , en suite bathrooms , artificial coal fires in what they called the lounge , working wives , a new car every two years and timeshares in Majorca — provided both with agreeable hours of self-satisfied comparisons which he knew would always end with the same conclusion , that he ought to pull himself together , that it was n't right , not after all the sacrifices Mum and Dad had made to send him to college , and a fine waste of money that had proved . |
| 2 | Then he started to pull himself together , returned to Hollywood and stayed sober — except for Sundays , when he would lock himself away and drink like a fish . |
| 3 | Now he sat back , eyes closed , trying to pull himself together . |
| 4 | He emptied the glass , and made an effort to pull himself together . |
| 5 | The funeral 's on Wednesday ; perhaps when that 's over , he 'll begin to pull himself together . ’ |
| 6 | Some of the officers kept on to him to pull himself together and that sort of thing . |
| 7 | If it had been any other soldier , he would have told him sternly to pull himself together and be a man . |
| 8 | He seemed to be trying to pull himself together and just as the bus appeared at the mouth of the square , he murmured : ‘ Do n't worry about Mama ; she will have understood what you were thinking , and in any case I can tell her if you 'd like . ’ |
| 9 | The action caused his kiss to deepen until suddenly , with what she sensed to be an effort of will , he appeared to pull himself together . |
| 10 | He tried to pull himself together , but it was impossible . |
| 11 | Time to pull himself together . |
| 12 | When did you ever put me first in your life ? ’ he demanded angrily , before taking a deep breath and clearly making a determined effort to pull himself together . |
| 13 | His wife has told him to pull himself together . |
| 14 | Colonel Windsor refilled it , and Tubby took a large swallow before gathering himself together to reply . |
| 15 | He turned away from the window abruptly , pulling himself together . |
| 16 | Penry stared at her in silence , visibly pulling himself together . |
| 17 | By the time he had rallied and got himself together and was thinking of things to say to the police it was too late and they were heading north . |
| 18 | He 'd hear the engine starting , of course , but , by the time he 'd got himself together enough to do anything about it , she should at least have a head start . |
| 19 | I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off . |
| 20 | One observer who met him in November of this year at Lady Colefax recollected that " he seemed to be holding himself together , almost as if he were a piece of riveted china " . " |
| 21 | Then he pulled himself together and said , as they mounted the station steps under the concrete canopy : ‘ Now if we were cops inside the covers of a detective story , Mike , we 'd know for sure that Hatton was killed to stop Pertwee getting married today . ’ |
| 22 | He pulled himself together with an effort and looked at his father . |
| 23 | It 's about time Joe pulled himself together . |
| 24 | But somehow Leconte pulled himself together to take the second set and the decider became a rout . |
| 25 | Manville pulled himself together with a mental jolt . |
| 26 | But then he pulled himself together . |
| 27 | He pulled himself together and began to read . |
| 28 | He pulled himself together . |
| 29 | The crestfallen merchant pulled himself together . |
| 30 | Ken Baker pulled himself together . |