Example sentences of "go and get " in BNC.

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1 Christmastime , he used to go and get some wood , and he 'd make engines , great big engines and … tip-up cart with two wheels .
2 The sand laid up a dream against the pond walls , and it was time to go and get a pool liner .
3 By nine that same evening I was being begged to go and get them !
4 You want to go and get it ?
5 He shouted something unintelligible and ordered his dog to go and get me — which it did , giving me a painful nip on the back of the calf .
6 Then , just as you are seduced into believing all is Cocteau-calm , the tempo jumps up a gear , the guitars rev into psychedelia and pure white noise signals that it 's time to go and get dressed .
7 He was going to go and get Janine and the baby and if necessary drag her to the flat in Westbourne Park .
8 You 'll need to go and get some advice from the head wife at the end of the village .
9 And I have not , and I would n't want to unless she was in such a condition , can you manage to sit there like that for a moment while I 'll manage to go and get a pad ?
10 So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ?
11 Spotting me , she screamed for me to go and get Jean-Claude .
12 I do n't know what anyone else says , you 've only got to be in prison a week — no , a day — and all you want when you get out is revenge , to go and get drunk and do something really stupid like break a shop window or something .
13 ‘ Would n't you like to go and get the children and come to stay here for a night or two ? ’ he said .
14 If James has n't come down by the time you get back , I promise to go and get you a drink , my darling , dearest , demanding wife . ’
15 If lazy-bones Stephen ca n't be bothered to go and get the ice-box , I will . ’
16 Well my husband was out o on strike and I 'd erm got two babies , a year and ten months , and I felt that I had to go and get a job and I was desperate so I 'd heard people talking about these things as they did so I thought well I 've got to do something .
17 And you was allowed to go and get the coal from the pit siding .
18 You used to go and get a penn'orth of chips and a penny fish .
19 I had to go and get it up across the road .
20 And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get .
21 I ca n't put on the black and peach creations he bought before , so I told him to go and get something sensible at Marks and Spencer .
22 He 'd soon be shouting at the window to call the boss up to go and get him some drink — usually home-brewed beer .
23 So he had to go and get a job on the land , for ten shillings a week .
24 ALL Royal Bank banknotes carried the arms ( and head ) of George II up until as recently as the early 1960s when there was a general clampdown on indiscriminate use of the Royal Arms and we were told to go and get our own .
25 Proud ; embarrassed , Like me , He smiled , perhaps he would have to go and get a ladder ; rescue her , The idea amused him .
26 Want to go and get it ? ’
27 And they had what they called a floating shop , you know just a bit of a s a boat that came , Oh I think it was once a week , and they used to go and get supplies off of it .
28 I had to keep the fire going for example and I had to go and get er some e Eccles cakes for Uncle Jonathan for his tea .
29 Once or twice when she crept down to the turn in the stairs to see if it was safe to go and get something to eat , she was scared back by the murmur of unfamiliar voices , and saw three or four bicycles parked in the hall , leaning together with their pedals tangled in each others ' spokes , forming an intricate barrier to outside .
30 The half-hour eventually crawled round , then it was time for me to go and get ready .
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