Example sentences of "[conj] went [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In actual fact I have bent over backwards , I was the only councillor that went and welcomed one of our new ke tenant farmers quite recently , having been on the agricultural environment protection committee and been on a board of er interview panel . |
| 2 | I knew she kept her statements at the bank and went and saw the bank manager now and again , but I thought it was only a few hundred . |
| 3 | When I got back to Manaus someone said , ‘ You 've got the geography worm , Larva migrans , ’ and went and got some dry ice and killed them . |
| 4 | I says I sure of that and er I left and went and got into a row over it . |
| 5 | He put the phone down and went and got himself a malt whisky , a squat , powerful-looking man with white hair who wore steel-rimmed spectacles . |
| 6 | Went in there and went and got dressed so Mary was up then so when I got back downstairs the er breakfast , my breakfast was on the table . |
| 7 | One day Tod took from the trash a framed certificate and went and hung it on the toilet doornail . |
| 8 | So it would be much better if you left the washing up to me , and went and had a drink with him yourself . ’ |
| 9 | She smiled and went and put the kettle on , and listened as he wriggled like a worm on a hook . |
| 10 | I packed an overnight bag and went and checked the street through a chink in the curtain . |
| 11 | A smile curved her mouth , though , as she kicked off her shoes and went and lay down on her bed . |
| 12 | Kee kept them quite for as long as he could and then from nowhere … from nothing United burst into life and went and took the lead … |
| 13 | He left them on the road and went and tried again . |
| 14 | I reached the square and went and sat in the Café des Chasseurs , where men with nowhere to rush sat smoking and drinking , blank-faced . |
| 15 | It was only when she ceased her household duties , refused to cook and clean , refused herself to eat , and went and sat day after day in the park , never changing her clothes , and wandering about with plastic bags full of old newspapers , that anyone took notice . |
| 16 | I said , and went and sat down . |
| 17 | Instinctively he dipped his fingers in the holy water , a kind of regression to childhood , and went and sat on the end of a bench beside two nuns and waited his turn . |
| 18 | and went and sat in the corner of the bathroom and went , scowled at him for a bit ! |
| 19 | His Mum got up off his bed and went and opened his cupboard . |
| 20 | Grumbling beneath her breath , she dragged herself upright and went and opened the door . |
| 21 | Finally he broke away and went and squatted on his haunches by the stream . |
| 22 | But Basil got summonsed for wounding — an inspector in a tram-car had seen it and went and gave evidence against him . |
| 23 | She got to her feet and went and picked up the phone . |
| 24 | The bull terrier at once left off lapping water from its baking dish and went and put its head on her knee . |
| 25 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 26 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 27 | She told me not to be silly and went and reported me . |
| 28 | But then I got led astray , and went and did that awful thing to poor Annunciata . " |
| 29 | But that was good fun , there were eighteen of us , from eight different countries er Americans and Canadians and Australians and New Zealanders and Dutch and Swiss and English and er we had a good time , and then we and went and did mountain biking in Katmandu |
| 30 | I could , I used to run it down and er , and that 's the only reason me mother would let me , but they was pleased as punch when I stopped and went and worked for me dad again . |