Example sentences of "go and [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you did n't have the expertise to know Ah well I know what 's in there , then what the hell does that person count they 've got to go and chase somebody to find out |
| 2 | to go and do something in Dundee , so they 've advertised his job |
| 3 | A physiotherapist stated , for instance : ‘ What we want to develop in them is the motivation to try and tackle society , take it head on so that they can actually say I want to go and do this , I want to go and do something else . ’ |
| 4 | I want you to go and do something for me . ’ |
| 5 | She was a wreck and had planned to go and do something about it once dinner had been prepared , but now that would have to go by the board — there would be no time — and , besides , she could hardly appear to Luke 's business partner and his wife in one of Luke 's towelling robes , could she ? |
| 6 | They liked her because she did n't put the book down in the middle to go and do something else , and because she read stories properly , as if she wanted to know what happened too . |
| 7 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 8 | That what happens after the first ten minutes , you have to go and do something else , then what happens , you physically get up and do , but you will do something else . |
| 9 | I think you need to go and do something else for a little while I said cos if you keep looking over thinking you ca n't do it , have a break and go back to it afterwards you just get really despondent |
| 10 | And it 's no good moaning , so has to go and do something about it , |
| 11 | There was only one way to get one and that was to go and buy one . |
| 12 | He had to go and pick somebody up . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Last night we were shopping , I wanted to go and get something cos I said to her right can you ? |
| 16 | Do you want me to go and get something from cos it 's cheaper . |
| 17 | Do you want to go and get something to eat , then . |
| 18 | so I du n no , if I want to go out in it , he 's gon na have to go and get somebody else , I 've got time off , I mean I 've got ta go out tonight , I 'm on me raffle , monthly raffle |
| 19 | Yeah but it do n't mean you have to go and look everything up . |
| 20 | I am not suggesting that on occasions it is not totally appropriate to go and help someone — children particularly appreciate a parent 's involvement in a variety of projects . |
| 21 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 22 | And he goes , er I 'm not sure ah , and he nearly let us in there and then but he had to go and see somebody else and he said tell them to go away ! |
| 23 | Well you 've got an appoint , you 're got ta go , have an appointment to go and see somebody there are n't you ? |
| 24 | The company which owns the cinema never puts any pressure on us to go and see anything . |
| 25 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 26 | Where the boss 's response to a complaint might well be ‘ If you do n't like it you can always leave ’ , then sticking with a job you do not like implies that you lack the motivation to go and find something more satisfactory , or that you are incapable of finding anything better . |
| 27 | Before she was married and when she was at school she was quite happy to go and find something |
| 28 | You 'd do better to go and find someone beautiful and lively to marry who can cook and keep house and look after this little paradise of yours . ’ |
| 29 | It is possible to harden the heart against a Ballesteros in these moods but then he goes and does something sublime on the course , hits a shot that no one else would conceive , let alone execute , and one realises here is genius in sport . |
| 30 | So , er er aggression again can be seen as a demand placed on the ego by the id , or for erm release as it were , when an ego erm goes and does something that , that releases the aggression . |