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"to collect himself" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe an individual's attempt to gain composure and order their thoughts before speaking or taking some other action. For example, "When the professor was asked a difficult question, he paused to collect himself before responding."
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He stopped to collect himself.
And here, he paused to collect himself.
"I'm sorry," he muttered, as he struggled to collect himself.
At the edge of the wings, he managed to collect himself.
"But I want to," he said, and stopped, as if to collect himself.
His voice broke, and he paused for a few seconds to collect himself.
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The poet, whose first work had been about the Great war, felt so transported across time that he became oblivious to the cameras' presence and recalled that Patch's hands felt like twigs and his voice "was very low, almost worn out... there were lengthy pauses... gradually I realised they were to let him collect himself".
That means Mr. Chapman, who is based in Maryland, will either have to spend many hours figuring out how to collect taxes himself or pay someone to do it for him.
And he was going to have to collect it himself.
He'd nod, collect himself.
Tapper started to parry, then collected himself.
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