Example sentences of "take [pn reflx] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A punch would be delivered and Ricky , thinking this had ended the row would take himself off to bed only to find the next minute that Minton was emptying a bottle of water over him . |
| 2 | She would take herself out to lunch and do some shopping , look for those new lampshades that were needed for one of the spare rooms . |
| 3 | It was then , when it came to her that Vendelin Gajdusek was heady stuff , that she took herself severely to task . |
| 4 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 5 | Unlike his wife , who had taken herself off to bed like one of the heroines in the penny dramas , he , James Grierson , was going to do something . |
| 6 | If the wretched woman had n't taken herself off to war work in a factory canteen for three times the money , or so she had said . |