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Example sentences of "go and [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1	‘ Had to go and leave my dandelions to look for you , now they 've all gone to sleep . ’
2	She was nearly sixteen ; if she refused to go and told her mother so herself , Anna , they reckoned , would not be able to go through with it .
3	" You might at least ask him to go and make his own baby 's bottle , " said Clelia .
4	I was just getting up to go and make my way on down to Greece when I felt a hand on my shoulder and heard a deep voice .
5	I would n't like to be the one to go and tell his folk .
6	Her husband died in a car accident and I had to go and tell his wife .
7	She says er no then she afterwards I says well do n't forget to get Kath 's money she said tell her I 'll phone her and I 'll be up about half past six , I 'll have to go and draw me money .
8	The chap who 'd called out was the one in the pub who 'd told Mary Mauchline to go and rattle her can , the same Mary Mauchline he now held in his arms .
9	‘ And we want her to get a nice lot of money for it so that she can afford to go and visit her nephew up North , ’ added Mary .
10	alright he 's met you for five minutes but he 's come here I said this gang of children , I said the poor bugger 's not going to know what hit him I said alright if it 's just for Sally 's three I said he 's gon na be , he 's not gon na be relaxed I said I know that for a fact I said I know what it was like when I used to go and visit your people when I was
11	Tell her old man to go and stuff his bloody butcher 's shop up his Jacksey .
12	And then you were considered in a fit state to go and eat your dinner . ’
13	She 's going to go and eat your dinner .
14	To paddle around Laguna Chica enjoying the idle drift of time , the depth of natural silence ; to go and rest my head for a last time between the fifteen-foot-high buttresses of Big Tree …
15	Nagged to fix a shelf , the male Procrastinator is more likely to go and polish his prize onions than fetch a hammer .
16	But erm we used to have a little shed , a little hut in the pit yard , where we used to go and pay our dues , every week
17	I want to go and rebuild my life , but I feel I ca n't until he contacts me .
18	She used to get someone else to go and do her shopping for her .
19	And she was toying with the idea whether to go and do her midwifery cos that 's what she wanted to do
20	Perhaps you would like to go and do your own thing .
21	Need watering a bit , have those back up there and really you seem even worse than oh were going to go and do your bedroom .
22	‘ Hopefully , I 'll be doing the next Lemonheads album , ’ he says , with exactly the right amount of carelessness , ‘ but I really have to go and do my own thing as well .
23	I 'm waiting to go and do my shopping
24	Thought want me to go and do my shopping .
25	He should have told Cottee to go and do his talking on the park and perhaps tried to change the team plan to assist his strike-force ( if that 's the right word ) .
26	Still the hired spider in the back clucked and unwedged himself as fast as he could to go and check his beloved bits and pieces by touch .
27	‘ And because poor Karen 's got to go and hide her bushel in the Isle of Man .
28	that they thought they could develop and hav hold events on , and er , he said , like we , we came up with some good ideas , put forward some ideas , really good ideas , for things to do on this land , and he said , the trouble is that all these councillors back on to these pieces of land , and he said , er , they do n't want people coming along and enjoying themselves on it , because they want to go and walk their labradors on it .
29	‘ I 'm going to have to go and give my regular Saturday afternoon lesson to my refugees . ’
30	the butcher , on the corner of Street , the little tiny grocers where you used to go and fe your mother used to go and fetch her groceries , and if she spent three shillings in the shop she was a good customer .