Example sentences of "took [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swan , who had not been invited to Grunte 's party , or to Andrew Neil 's , or to anyone else 's , took himself into the Lanes where he ate a plate of fish , chips and Heinz tomato sauce and drank two pints of lager . |
| 2 | He took himself to the call-box in his lodgings night after night , but whether he was sloshed or sober there was no way of finding the nerve to dial . |
| 3 | Gabriel took himself to the top of a steep grass slope and , lying full length in the grass , rolled from top to bottom , over and over and over , until he was soaking wet and extremely dizzy . |
| 4 | After they had gone , Harriet took herself for a long walk over the cliffs , but for once the beauty of her surroundings , the early evening light on the sea , the cry of gulls and the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below , failed to soothe her . |
| 5 | She went upstairs to change after luncheon and then took herself to the chair by her bedroom hearth , and said she should want nothing further , all afternoon . |
| 6 | He grew morose after that and growled at the customers , it seems — so most took themselves to the next village for their ale . |
| 7 | Leaving the men and Madeleine sipping Calvados and smoking , the two girls brushed the crumbs off the glossy white cloth and took themselves to the kitchen . |
| 8 | In the absence of any Archbishop of Canterbury other than the excommunicant Stigand , a stream of newly promoted churchmen , including Archbishop Cynsige of York , took themselves to the Continent to be consecrated . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's time you took yourself off the market , ’ she said . |