Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell them to go and fuck themselves . |
| 2 | She was stuck there with the bags , she could n't leave them to go and pick the child up . |
| 3 | ‘ I told them to go and camp on Rickling Heath , which is public land , if they must stay . |
| 4 | The alarm will trigger in a central control point and the people there will either ring a neighbour to ask them to go and see what the problem is , or immediately ring the emergency services . |
| 5 | People come here looking for a Rottweiler as a guard dog — I tell them to go and buy a burglar alarm . |
| 6 | In the second account , Jesus told them to go and show themselves to the priests , and while they were on their way they discovered they were cured . |
| 7 | Another good homework task for some clients is to encourage them to go and try deliberately to provoke and control a panic attack . |
| 8 | I feel that these difficulties have gone on too long for there to be a realistic prospect of change in time for these children and given their improvement whilst in foster care , where they are not brought up in their parents ' conflict , it is not in the children 's interests for them to go and live with the father and that they need to be placed in an environment with permanent substitute parents , who can meet the boys ' physical , emotional , educational and social needs . |
| 9 | It 's always tell them to go and |
| 10 | Because it 's their own fault for going to , nobody told them to go and do it , did they ? |
| 11 | What makes them think and function in the way they do ? |
| 12 | You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by being completely honest , even if you feel your devotional life is in a mess . |
| 13 | But if you want to improve the quality of your sex life , you have nothing to lose and everything to gain . |
| 14 | Dr Sommers feels that Regina has nothing to lose and a great deal to gain if she follows his advice re support for her floating kidney ’ ) . |
| 15 | They came with nothing to lose and played a very relaxed game . |
| 16 | You 've nothing to lose and everything to gain , and I wo n't make you cry . " |
| 17 | He had nothing to lose and they had everything . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've nothing to lose and everything to gain . |
| 19 | But it is likely to prove empty in the end , even if the workers are right in thinking that , at this stage , they have nothing to lose and that a threat to withdraw their labour might help their union representatives wring a few more concessions from those in whose hands the firm 's fate now rests . |
| 20 | Yes it goes like that , like you say , you know , it 's come in and I did n't have nothing to lose and things were going well , then there 's been a bit of a lull and erm like I say , we 've worked hard and we 've like with following in on this save earlier on . |
| 21 | A transformational change is orchestrated by the organization 's executive managers , who must have access to a model that enables them to diagnose and manage the change process . |
| 22 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 23 | As the throng around me rippled and shifted , I had seen the occupants of two other , larger tables . |
| 24 | He and his friends would have me scoffed and hounded out of the county rather than see my house completed . |
| 25 | You may gam status at work from your ability to make everyone laugh and to defuse tense atmospheres , from your informal counselling skills or your ability to see the down-side and to be eminently practical when others are dreaming . |
| 26 | The future and the past of the world was gathered on an island for everyone to see and speculate with awe . |
| 27 | Thus the passerby would observe in large letters the exhortation , ‘ I urge everyone to go and see The Hooded Owl now ! — Times ’ . |
| 28 | Behind her she could hear Jack calmly telling everyone to go and shower and change and come back in full barrier gear . |
| 29 | But there was nothing to see and they soon returned to their posts as the bus continued on its way . |
| 30 | He said , ‘ There 's absolutely nothing to see and it 's awfully full of nettles ’ ; at the same moment Jean Powers was saying noisily that not a solitary soul had been into the Britches in years and the village wondered what Edward got up to in there — ha ha ! — some people said he must be into black magic , or maybe he was growing cannabis . |