Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] together " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've just got to pull ourselves together and stick together and we can pull out of this . |
| 2 | We also found ourselves together in the middle of the LA riots — two days of mayhem without a cop in sight — so I guess that brought us closer together ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now he sat back , eyes closed , trying to pull himself together . |
| 6 | He emptied the glass , and made an effort to pull himself together . |
| 7 | The funeral 's on Wednesday ; perhaps when that 's over , he 'll begin to pull himself together . ’ |
| 8 | Some of the officers kept on to him to pull himself together and that sort of thing . |
| 9 | If it had been any other soldier , he would have told him sternly to pull himself together and be a man . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He tried to pull himself together , but it was impossible . |
| 13 | Time to pull himself together . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His wife has told him to pull himself together . |
| 16 | As the day began , so the village started to pull itself together . |
| 17 | Head in her hands , she tried to pull herself together . |
| 18 | Jess gulped and tried to pull herself together . |
| 19 | While Liza usually seemed vague and non-co-operative , there were times , such as the present one , when she appeared , miraculously , to pull herself together . |
| 20 | Do n't make a fuss ! ’ said Harriet brusquely , making an obvious effort to pull herself together . |
| 21 | She had made gallant efforts to pull herself together but had still been confused about the precise sequence of events between arriving at the church and the moment when she had pushed open the door of the Little Vestry . |
| 22 | Ruth was silent , trying to pull herself together . |
| 23 | With an effort , she started to pull herself together . |
| 24 | In due course , she knew that she would have to pull herself together . |
| 25 | Still trying to pull herself together , Merrill chewed her inner lip crossly . |
| 26 | Then , realising she was on the verge of helpless tears , she made a valiant effort to pull herself together . |
| 27 | With Alain 's dark eyes on her quite threateningly , Jenna had to pull herself together fast . |
| 28 | She looked at Anne 's stricken face , contorted with worry and concern , and tried desperately to pull herself together . |
| 29 | Letting all her breath out on an achingly shaky sigh , and telling herself firmly to pull herself together , that seeing a bride always made her feel weepy and was nothing whatever to do with Feargal , she walked along the landing to stare from the end window . |
| 30 | But the need for solitude to pull herself together was too imperative . |