Example sentences of "go and [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Look , Jay , ’ she said , ‘ I hate to go and leave you in this state . ’ |
2 | I said , well I 'd have to go and leave you then . |
3 | So I 'll have to go and change it now . |
4 | He rose to go and told me to take care . |
5 | Since I had raised the issue , I was to go and make it — which did n't please Berthon . |
6 | Do you want me to go and make you another one ? |
7 | Oh I think I 'm going to go and make you a bottle , make you a bottle shall I ? |
8 | Just as we were about to paddle along the once road we heard a shout from Matthew 's mum for us to go and collect her . |
9 | Mm because do you remember when we had to go and collect her ? |
10 | For the other forty per cent I offered to go and collect him and as there were no other takers , I got the job . |
11 | He had left some of his belongings behind , which would mean a return journey to go and collect them . |
12 | But erm they say that he had used to go and collect it and that was what was fed to the pigs . |
13 | We 'll have to go and collect it , put it in a vase on the side . |
14 | got to pay it again to go and collect it back off him ! |
15 | Do you want Ann to go and whip you up an apple crumble ? |
16 | Well you look as if you 're raring to go and show us what you can do , so I 'll give you a push up and away you go . |
17 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
18 | Mary it 's none of your business to go and tell him ! |
19 | I did n't have to go and tell him . |
20 | But the Strike was , well we had the pit ponies up , and er we always used to go and feed them , and then we went , of course , to chapel for meals . |
21 | If she leaves the nest to go and feed he always follows her , and his presence is usually sufficient to deter other males . |
22 | Well I like my mum and dad here ( adoptive parents ) 'cause I 've been with them for some years , but there again , I like my own father as well ... we still think of him and would like to go and visit him . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | So you have to keep spending your money to go and visit them . |
25 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
26 | I wanted to go and visit her anyway . ’ |
27 | I do n't think you will this year cos , cos you have n't I 'm having to say oh come on we 've got to go and visit her . |
28 | The first visit to Brussels , the amend , the first visit to Brussels we had to go and bail you out because the Commission , the Commission , we could have been in this er |
29 | ‘ So it might , ’ he said , ‘ we ought to go and hunt it . |
30 | Peter Nieswand used to go and interview him for the BBC , sitting as I did beside his swimming pool , looking across the lawn on to six miles of fine farm-land . |