1.   I just stood there like a punch-drunk boxer, taking the punishment she was handing out.

2.   If knocked over, you stood upright again, at attention, and took the punishment until the staff tired of it.

3.   She took the punishments meted out to her without a murmur.

4.   It seemed impossible for any city to take so much punishment and continue to endure.

5.   I was obviously not taking the punishment right.

6.   Because he only had to be in the same room for her nervous system to run haywire, and she could only take so much punishment.

7.   The spinal column and the neck take enough punishment with the existing road surfaces without having speed humps inflicted on them.

8.   As a quarterback, he was able to take punishment and was considered creative and brainy, in a job wherebrains are not altogether necessary..

9.   At the end, he just decided to stay here and take his punishment.

10.   All I want to do is come back, take my punishment and get on with life.