Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] together " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it should do more these days about practical matters — like the tax system and keeping yourself together while you 're out of work and waiting for the next job , for that is fifty percent of what you 'll be doing . |
| 2 | Colonel Windsor refilled it , and Tubby took a large swallow before gathering himself together to reply . |
| 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 | Many of us place more value on action , decisiveness and ‘ pulling ourselves together ’ than we do on contemplation and reflection in solitude . |
| 5 | He turned away from the window abruptly , pulling himself together . |
| 6 | Penry stared at her in silence , visibly pulling himself together . |
| 7 | ‘ You seem very well-informed , ’ said Mrs. Fanshawe , pleased because she had succeeded so well in pulling herself together . |
| 8 | The old woman once again muttered incoherently as though complaining and then pulling herself together said clearly : ‘ Does your father wish it ? ’ |
| 9 | Then , immediately pulling herself together , she strolled up and thanked Kevin and Brigadier Canford very sweetly for her polo stick , before flicking a very obvious V-sign at Trace on the way back . |
| 10 | ‘ Some husbands , ’ she said , pulling herself together , finishing her wine , ‘ get very disheartened . |
| 11 | Pulling herself together she went out . |
| 12 | ‘ Tell me the news , ’ she said , pulling herself together . |
| 13 | Pulling herself together with an effort , she gave him what she hoped was a cool look . |
| 14 | Her legs were still trembling but she was pulling herself together as quickly as she could and she had to admit that his quiet actions helped . |
| 15 | She shivered , pulling herself together . |
| 16 | It was only when she found herself being abruptly swept off his lap , and on to the leather seat beside him , that she managed to start pulling herself together . |
| 17 | And then , pulling herself together , she told him through clenched teeth , ‘ Tim is not my lover ! ’ |
| 18 | Pulling herself together with a visible effort , she managed to glare at him . |
| 19 | Pulling herself together once more , Rachel 's mouth tightened and she knew the best thing would be to get away for an hour by going to lunch and pushing all thoughts of Damian Flint from her mind . |
| 20 | Her angry look vanished , and quickly pulling herself together , she smiled at Giles and said , ‘ I 've been trying to persuade Robert to dance with me but without success . |
| 21 | At last , pulling herself together , she went to give Joanna and Helen a watered-down version of the scene that had just taken place — watered-down because , for some subconscious reason , she felt that Dawn 's story was not quite believable . |
| 22 | For a wild moment she contemplated locking the door against him , then , pulling herself together , she prepared to face him . |
| 23 | She nodded , disappointed that he was being so matter-of-fact , and , pulling herself together , she stared out of the window as the headlights shone on the hedges and fields of the countryside they were passing through . |
| 24 | People who had psychosomatic complaints were probably malingering ( if male ) and hysterical ( if female ) , and the appropriate treatment was a stiff talking-to , designed to exhort or scare them into ‘ stopping all this nonsense ’ and ‘ pulling themselves together ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm pulling myself together . |
| 26 | Then she poured out in detail the humiliation she had recently suffered , and at last she sighed deeply and said , ‘ You 've caught me at my weakest , but I 'm gradually pulling myself together . ’ |
| 27 | Now some people have already been passed these by me while they were still getting ourselves together . |
| 28 | 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 " . " |
| 29 | I do n't like , just , I could n't be like Deirdre and , put me overall on and in go in without collecting me thoughts getting myself together Deirdre never arrives till about three minutes before she gets in the door , she 's putting her overall on saying come on ladies , its time were , but she 's putting her overall and on , and they all sit there looking at her and so |
| 30 | Then , gathering herself together , she turned her back on the mystery , and started home . |