Example sentences of "to go [coord] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we were picked up in a BBC limo to go and review the papers on Breakfast Time . |
| 2 | At this point , in 1986 , the mother church commissioned us to go and start the new church . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry , do you mind if I leave , because I 've actually got to go and make the canapes . |
| 4 | Reduction in guaranteed funding for research with each student place has led to senior academics increasingly being required to forsake the laboratory and library to go and press the flesh with research directors on the Government 's councils and of the big companies , charities and foundations . |
| 5 | ‘ Call in anytime , ’ the hospitable ladies further invited as they rallied reluctant dogs and piled into the car to go and collect the men . |
| 6 | The beeper alarm on Diane 's watch sounded as they were driving back , the signal that it was time for her to go and collect the litterbug Jed from his minder . |
| 7 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
| 8 | They had to go and collect the mails . |
| 9 | The other passage that makes a most extraordinary effect emotionally is Ellen 's exit after she agrees tO go and collect the new apprentice for Grimes . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going to go and lock the ship , ’ she said . |
| 11 | He wanted to go and tell the Fletcher family his good fortune . |
| 12 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |
| 13 | I 've got to go and tell the teacher this morning Alex needs to stay till twenty past three cos they only want them to stay till half two . |
| 14 | It was an interesting airport , the first one I had visited where , in order to get the planes to land and take off , they have to go and shift the seals off the runway . |
| 15 | Then he told Kāli to go and graze the cows , and Bi ā to tend the sheep . |
| 16 | We talked for a while about the hunt — she wanted to know how much meat we 'd eaten , what the men had talked about — and then she said she had to go and graze the cows . |
| 17 | Fortunately , Annabel Hogan needed to go and supervise the shaking of hundreds and thousands on the trifle . |
| 18 | I have to go and supervise the refreshments . ’ |
| 19 | Used to go and feed the pigs . |
| 20 | The Marr technique of painting is to go and visit the subject , where she makes copious notes on eye colour and other little idiosyncrasies that will help catch the soul of the dog . |
| 21 | And our other project will probably be in Malaysia , where we 're hoping to be able to fund lawyers to go and visit the indigenous tribes , and educate them about the Malaysian process of law , because at the moment I 'm sure you 'll know that various indigenous people have been blockading the logging roads that go on to their demarcated territory . |
| 22 | ‘ Does this mean I have to go and retrieve the toad from her bed ? ’ |
| 23 | Omar and our neighbours ' driver decided to go and view the spectacle . |
| 24 | But erm it 's quite hard if you 've been up a lot at night and then you have to go and do the whole of the next day of work , but fortunately our rotas are n't too bad so we 're never on two nights in a row compared with the hospital which was quite a lot harder work . |
| 25 | if I have to go and do the music I , jolly well wan na do it ! |
| 26 | And we had to go and do the washing up and they were sitting in the erm in the kitchen choosing their Christmas presents from the Argos catalogue oh that 's nice , ooh it 's five ninety nine Jenny I 'm serious . |
| 27 | And that it 's up to them to do the research , to listen to advisers , parents , other students and so on , but at the end of the day it 's them that 's got to go and do the course . |
| 28 | As Mrs Robson said , people had taken to war like they did to life : they had accepted it and were living with it and with all the things it did to them ; but why did them up top have to go and stop the flower trains coming from Cornwall ? |
| 29 | Because a client can not pay you , you ca n't say you wo n't act for him , you ca n't tell him to go and sort the Inland Revenue out himself . |
| 30 | Would you like to go and sort the books out for me I 'll give you a ticket . |