Example sentences of "[pron] go [adv] to get " in BNC.
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1 | Well when I go , I went u I just wo n't have washed my hair on Sundays cos if I go there to get mum , I know damn well my hair 's gon na stink , so I might as well not bother . |
2 | Granpa told me to ‘ shhh ’ and did n't smile again until I went up to get the arithmetic prize , a box of coloured crayons that were damned-all use to anyone . |
3 | And I just went along with I went inside to get a cup of tea . |
4 | So I went out to get some fish and chips and they called me NIGGGGGAH ! ’ |
5 | ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’ |
6 | Well I went along to get my . |
7 | Well , are you going up to get ready for your bed as well ? |
8 | You went in to get the package while Ibrahim went on to the river — was that it ? ’ |
9 | Then you go downstairs to get the gas bottle out of the old stove in the kitchen . |
10 | But when you go up to get Peter take some up with you . |
11 | if we get packets sent The butchers If you get one thing set in your mind what you 're going to do , and you know , you go off to get it , and then er if you do n't manage it , then you have to start again . |
12 | Remembering the cheque , she went upstairs to get it , she flattened it out and stared at the signature . |
13 | She went through to get here , to shake it all , |
14 | Early in the evening she went home to get her brown envelope . |
15 | Anyway , she went out to get some text books , so there was a few of us who thought we 'd have a bit of a laugh , do something to catch her out . |
16 | and she says she 's still as bad off now as when she went in to get the house , you know the five thousand odd , she 's would , she 's , she 's , I had a bit last , I , I wished you had it all , I said do n't lie , I said do n't tell me you have n't had it I says cos you have , she says yeah , I says what you done with it ? |
17 | About 4 am things quietened down , and we went home to get a spot of sleep . |
18 | She would have smelt it first — long before the old girl downstairs : she did n't smell it till we went in to get her . ’ |
19 | ‘ Then two older boys came along on bikes and one of them went off to get help . ’ |
20 | I think they went early to get back early . |
21 | In the sense of their access to political power it was not so much a case that women were ‘ returned ’ to the family since they had never really left it to go out to get power — rather they had traditionally exercised power , if at all , by virtue of their familial positions and as the public and private spheres were separated , women were left behind . |
22 | It 's probably that flying thing he went off to get . ’ |
23 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |
24 | And then erm after the rehearsal some of us went off to get a pizza before the concert and he said to me , erm are you interested in going to hear the Mozart Requiem , it 's on at the Barbican on Wednesday ? |