Example sentences of "[verb] go and [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you want to go and sit down some place ? ’ |
| 2 | Why would I want to go and wander around on these featureless big sods at the weekend , when I could be rollicking along a precipice on a terrifying , craggy west-coast mountain ? |
| 3 | Because you do n't want to go and buy as many clothes as you would have in your wardrobe normally . |
| 4 | Do you want to go and find out all what the plans are ? |
| 5 | David agreed to go and ended up liking it . |
| 6 | One of the things about when you are old and move to a residential home I think one of the important things is that you want to go and live close to your loved ones , if you have any , and it does just worry me that if you happen to be a person who is resident in and your loved ones live in , under these terms if you went to a residential home in you would n't qualify for the higher rate and that seems to me to be wrong . |
| 7 | ‘ Want to go and lie down ? ’ |
| 8 | If she succeeds , the person has to go and sit down . |
| 9 | Sparc International , which is currently at version 8 of the Sparc interface definition , said the 64-bit stuff in version 9 will be just ‘ the tip of the iceberg , ’ and that it would be putting out the new specifications ‘ relatively soon : ’ it still has to go and dig up the stuff from down at Sun Labs . |
| 10 | Well it may be of course that that kind of thing has always tended to happen gather of society skirmishing goes on and young men are expected to go and find very often |
| 11 | As Jonna rose to go and change back into his working clothes , he flushed with resentment . |
| 12 | Then she let go and straightened up , standing there knee deep in the water at the bottom of the unlit channel , the first light lain like a white cloth over the latticework of the surrounding fields , picking out the channel 's lips , the crouching shape of Sung . |
| 13 | He let go and ducked back into the driving rain . |
| 14 | The reason being is that it 's copied for formula across , see at the top F eight time E nine , and that formula has gone and recalculated straight away . |
| 15 | It was a bitter summary of their unhappy affair , but compunction ensued , because it was n't Luke 's fault that he could n't love her , even if he had no right to despise her , so she added neutrally , ‘ There 's a Chinese tea-house or tea-garden — I 'm not sure what it 's really called — not far from here that intrigues me , and I 've been wanting to go and find out what it 's all about ever since I first passed it . |
| 16 | Jezrael let go and dodged weakly beneath the first one . |
| 17 | It is sometimes very difficult indeed not to be very cross , and there have been some occasions when I have had to go and chop up a few logs in order to abate my own aggression before replying . |
| 18 | And that is why , as Mr said , I think they ought to be allowed to produce some sort of advertising pamphlet , and get their act together , because if they 're going to go and compete out there they 've got to be prepared for it , and we 've got to allow them to give a decent presentation , at least have a decent glossy brochure to push round , so at least they can say what they do , because they will never compete when they are privatised unless they get it . |
| 19 | ‘ Franca , dear , would n't you like to go and lie down , ’ came Moxie 's voice . |
| 20 | Yeah I 've got to go and wake up John now . |
| 21 | go into the Burger King , put them into the Burger King , I 've got to go and get out |
| 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 | Cos slates you know going and rolling round and jumping . |
| 24 | We 'll have to go and queue up then . |
| 25 | D' ya have to go and pay again ? |
| 26 | I do n't know , I 'll have to go and get here , sha n't I ? |
| 27 | But the truth is that HMI is to be privatised by the back door because the half of HMI who will not be employed by it will have to go and set up as private consultants . |
| 28 | Anyway , further down the Carter tour sheet , the band had an evening off in Atlanta and decided to go and check out a local restaurant which , they found , belonged to MICK JAGGER . |
| 29 | It would be a bit like choosing to go and spend all Sunday afternoon discussing skin diseases with your 75-year-old deaf aunty in Coatbridge , instead of taking up your boyfriend 's offer of a day in bed at an expensive country house hotel , drinking champagne while he gives you a bit of a seeing to . |
| 30 | He was asked to go and look again . |