Example sentences of "take [pron] off [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as we were married he took me off to Scotland , kept me there in virtual purdah , never let me out of his sight — his jealousy was manic . |
| 2 | Aware that the situation was getting out of hand and unable to cope any more with their triangular relationship , Norman took himself off to Cornwall . |
| 3 | As soon as he was of age he took himself off to London to work as a merchant 's clerk . |
| 4 | At other times he craved solitude and took himself off to Balmoral to fish , paint and stalk deer . |
| 5 | So , when a couple named Holt decided to bring their marriage to an end , Mr Holt took himself off to Reno and filed a divorce suit . |
| 6 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 7 | Whilst there Norman had his twenty-first birthday , a fact he announced to a girl he met in a café and who took him off around Antwerp in celebration , on a journey of discovery that lasted two days . |
| 8 | And er they took themselves off to Coventry and to and to Luton , to the motor trades . |
| 9 | It 's that kind of blind faith that forced Glenn Hoddle and his team into hiding this week … they took themselves off to Bournemouth for three days to prepare to psyche themselves up in secret |
| 10 | ‘ Sweet darling , ’ he murmured , and kissed all hurt she had felt away before , shaking his head , he said self-mockingly , ‘ And I thought that by taking myself off to Prague I might get you out of my thoughts . ’ |
| 11 | Instead they fought the corner for multi-racial sport by taking themselves off to Zwide , a township near Port Elizabeth ( see pages 38 and 39 ) , where they held a coaching clinic for black and coloured youngsters . |
| 12 | Take himself off to Yzordderrex and set up business with Peccable ; marry Hoi-Polloi despite her crossed eyes ; have a litter of kids and retire to the Hills of the Conscious Cloud , in the Third , and raise parrots . |
| 13 | ‘ By morning I 'd decided to take myself off to Prague . ’ |
| 14 | if you want to watch a match tomorrow … then take yourself off to Kingsholm … its Gloucester against Leicester … we 're off now to the action round-up |
| 15 | Please , Norman , take yourself off to Kilgour French in Savile Row and get yourself a decently cut coat . |