Example sentences of "went [coord] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The woman looked Italian , so I went and asked John Florio about her .
2 ‘ The holidaymakers were having a party and one of the prisoners went and asked them to keep the noise down .
3 and we enjoyed it so much , we went and asked my mother for some more money , we stayed another week and then when we got back to London er Mrs said I think we better go , you know , get away from London in
4 And that were on a Wednesday and then on Saturday when I went and asked him come home , got changed , and went down to the club .
5 ‘ So we did that and I went and told everybody , because I was like sixteen at the time I did it .
6 I went and told them , ‘ One way or another , what 's happened to me is that I 've been burgled … ’ .
7 And then of course , silly girl , she went and told him — he was so livid he would n't have nothing more to do with her . "
8 So I just went and told my sister .
9 And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm .
10 And the union had the meeting and the union went and told the boss that we 're having so many more men here and that was it you see .
11 Jean : When Mrs B told Julie to go back to her own country she went and told Mrs C ( the deputy headmistress ) , Mrs C said that Mrs B was depressed because her husband was dying .
12 ‘ Rain , after I rang you this morning I made a few more enquiries and then went and told Barbara she was to come with me . ’
13 He went and told her .
14 She went and told Jenny .
15 So she went and told her she said
16 Course , she went and told Geoff she was coming and Geoff kicked up then so Geoff and Paul are coming now .
17 Else he did n't know what done , until Davey went and told her .
18 aha and he says I 've been to the nice wee man he says he remembers ah going round all the houses looking for somebody to do in Apple Street and he went and told what 's his name ?
19 They went and told you where it was .
20 The Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls , who on finding one pearl of great price went and sold all that he had and bought it .
21 ‘ What I 'm sayin' is , the fuckin' fool went and sold out to Penumbra — bad lady twice over .
22 Sun Microsystems Inc had to do something to prove it 's muscling into retail like Hewlett-Packard Co so it went and sold Dunkin' Donuts $8m worth of IPC machines to network more than half its 1,600 franchise operations over the next four years .
23 However the board went and sold Batts : - I do n't know much about Tinkler is he more in the Batts or Strach mould ?
24 I went and sniffed around the edges of the frosted glass back door : a good , clean , slightly sweet smell .
25 I went and meowed at him until he woke up .
26 We said goodbye , and I went and waited in the hall , which was ablaze with the Matisse colours of Christmas decorations .
27 he went and hired and plane from Richmond Airport
28 There were times when men went and made confessions to Bishop Hrolf , to stop him talking about engineering .
29 Needing no further encouragement , Luce went and made herself comfortable , nestling against him .
30 United kept Scunthorpe out and then went and made sure of victory with the second goal after seventy five minutes … no marks for slack defending by Scunthorpe … top marks for tenacity from skipper Derek hall … and that was his third strike of the season …
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