Example sentences of "go and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell them to go and fuck themselves . |
| 2 | ‘ Er , well , I 've nowhere to go and it 's causing me something of a problem . ’ |
| 3 | I would have to live on cheap or free food , so what I really needed to do was to go and see some nuns . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , Jay , ’ she said , ‘ I hate to go and leave you in this state . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I would have had it done , ’ said the owner , a small , pale woman , ‘ but I 'm selling up to go and live with my sister and it did n't seem worth it . ’ |
| 6 | So much better , in fact , that he could no longer resist the urge to go and see Amanda . |
| 7 | ‘ He makes me feel as though I ought to go and write ‘ I must always measure my ingredients ’ five hundred times . ’ |
| 8 | That 's why Caroline wanted you to go and meet people . |
| 9 | I looked at the two of them , ‘ You ought to go and have yourselves examined . ’ |
| 10 | I decided to go and see one of the Bond films which was on in a cinema at Leicester Square . |
| 11 | There were 18 pitches to go and six hours of daylight left . |
| 12 | ‘ My father was an industrial chemist and he said if you want to go and work for them , go and work for them . ’ |
| 13 | Labour present is Neil Kinnock , who speaks for 63 minutes and quotes Robert Frost about miles to go and promises to keep , and about a brighter dawn when poverty , privilege , fear , disease , woe , and war shall live only in the memory of time . |
| 14 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
| 15 | Athenian youths had to be sent every three years to assuage the monster , and when Theseus , prince of Athens , grew old enough , he demanded to go and try to slay it . |
| 16 | Well , I can assure you that if you were to go and look it up , you 'd find complaints against policemen in Easton . |
| 17 | ‘ Then when I started travelling seriously I used to go and be nice to my bank manager , which was n't so easy . ’ |
| 18 | The bishop gave him the extraordinary advice to go and be a curate again , at Boston in Lincolnshire . |
| 19 | Elsewhere Genet writes of a 19-year-old , washing the clothes of his friend who is shortly to go and fight , declaring that he loves the revolution and all the fedayeen , but his friend especially : ‘ Yes . |
| 20 | A couple of weeks after Brighton she came into the shop , presuming we were going out together that evening — without having told me what she intended , I 'd arranged to go and see a band with a mate from art college . |
| 21 | So I had to go and put Nick straight , tell him that he was n't even one of the band , just a mate who 'd come and play with us every now and then . |
| 22 | The bloke behind the counter said , look , I 've just got to go and look up the year of manufacture , I 'll be back in a couple of minutes . |
| 23 | I ca n't make it , I 've got to go and see a mate . |
| 24 | In the spring , almost without knowing how it happened , she accepted Rachel 's invitation to go and live with her in the new house she was buying in London . |
| 25 | So it seemed a fairly straightforward move to go and work for the family firm . |
| 26 | Each of them requires a complete day out to go and visit them and it 's very difficult to find a complete day because there are so many other things , so many other demands on your time . |
| 27 | Anita encouraged him to go and decided that while he was away , running a shop would be a less demanding occupation than working all hours in a restaurant . |
| 28 | ‘ Because everybody goes and jumps in the river is no reason why we have to go and jump in the same river . ’ |
| 29 | It was an interesting airport , the first one I had visited where , in order to get the planes to land and take off , they have to go and shift the seals off the runway . |
| 30 | For example , the son who is chosen by his family to go and earn money in a town and city may achieve a certain status in the joint family — he has been chosen , after all , for his abilities and strength of mind — but he has to suffer months , even years , of separation from his wife and loss of all contact with those who love him . |