Example sentences of "himself off to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At other times he craved solitude and took himself off to Balmoral to fish , paint and stalk deer . |
| 2 | As soon as he was of age he took himself off to London to work as a merchant 's clerk . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And yet he had n't directly experienced the fighting in the city ; at the first sign of trouble his mother had packed Senga and himself off to England . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After further disagreements with Hoveyda , Zahedi left the Foreign Ministry and took himself off to his fathers house in Switzerland . |
| 9 | Then , as much in guilty reaction to the receptionist 's parting look of disapproval as in the hope of ordering his thoughts , he took himself off to the bath . |
| 10 | He bowed reluctantly , and took himself off to his post . |
| 11 | No , I , I gather he has taken a long weekend , I do n't know where he 's whisked himself off to , but I 'm afraid I wo n't be here , er next week , I do n't know , quite know who will be , but er , Dominic 's taking er , a well needed rest . |
| 12 | Cornelius took himself off to the telephone box . |
| 13 | You know I took himself off to the Park the other day , the the tiny one you know ! and fortunately I was n't in charge , his father was in charge of them . |