Example sentences of "[verb] itself together " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the day began , so the village started to pull itself together . |
| 2 | Clara 's contingent sized up the situation in a disappointed trice , and hunched itself together in a corner to confront the disorderly scene by a solid front of backs . |
| 3 | Even when his ankle was much improved , the fracture knitting itself together most satisfactorily , she still went and would find him hobbling around the conservatory which was raw and bright , being still too new for the vines and jasmines to have masked its bare white ribs . |
| 4 | After its financial disaster in 1720 the South Sea Company had pulled itself together and had tried to trade with South America as though nothing had happened . |
| 5 | However , it soon pulled itself together and shot off in the other direction — no doubt grateful of the intervention which gave its release . |
| 6 | Today culture is just mixing itself together … during the '80s everyone was so heavy , so dour , politically correct ; now everyone 's freakin' out , getting sexy … |