Example sentences of "go and [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , so she just and she 'd like to go and teach for a living , . |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't need to go and work as a librarian abroad , for God 's sake . |
| 3 | If you want to learn more about horses you either have to go and work in a training yard or enrol for a college-based course — right ? |
| 4 | She hated school and left at sixteen to go and train in a riding stables to be an instructor . |
| 5 | So he told me to go and ask for a job there . |
| 6 | She had arranged to go and live with a niece , whose husband was out of work ; the couple would look after the old lady together . |
| 7 | I says I sure of that and er I left and went and got into a row over it . |
| 8 | He then went and called on a Mrs who 'd got a confectionery shop , corner of Road and Road and a hard luck story there , he got a few pound for doing out the sacrament , he got some money from her . |
| 9 | Canaris offered Schellenberg a cigarette and they went and leaned on a parapet over-looking the lake . |
| 10 | Well I went and worked in a factory for about nine months I suppose , and the man himself , cos it was casting , brass castings , the man himself says , he says look son , this job 's no good to you I 'll tell you that . |
| 11 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 12 | Let's go and drink to a life of crime . ’ |
| 13 | I 'll go and stay at a hotel in some quite other place , somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 14 | ‘ No , I wo n't go and sit on a mountain . |
| 15 | if Vicki was out or er at the side of Vicki when Vick when we had these she was ages before she 'd go and sit in a chair on her own |
| 16 | They can actually go and chase after a person outside the station if if that is their their wish and at the moment that is erm that will continue to be the case . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll go and look in a boat . ’ |
| 18 | Do you think I should go and live in a commune in San Francisco ? |
| 19 | Then the man voted Britain 's most-polite interviewer said : ‘ I might go and celebrate with a beer and a bag of crisps now . ’ |
| 20 | But what upset her particularly was the last sentence : ‘ I should go and work for a week in one of my shops but — though I could even sleep on the factory floor — I ca n't understand people working in shops . ’ |
| 21 | You can actually go and work for a living . |
| 22 | ‘ I sometimes go and stay at a house where a girl was killed . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's just not possible for me to pack a briefcase and go and stay in a Hilton somewhere looking for business and agents . |
| 24 | All all the boss used to say , Well if anybody comes round th that you do n't know just go and hide in a hamper . |
| 25 | Go and sit on a mountain . ’ |
| 26 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 27 | ‘ If you just go and talk to a girl in a club in England , she 'll think you 're stupid . |
| 28 | . If there are bits that you do n't understand and you 're having trouble , give me a phone , I think I put my phone number on the board , give me a ring at home , give me a ring at Aston or come and see me or go and chat to your friends or go go and look at a text book but if that does n't help , then come back , right ? |
| 29 | is that basically erm you you go and work as a dogsbody and erm graduates are allowed to take the exams within two years and and you 'd probably have to go on night school thing or something |
| 30 | Whether they have too much or what they have but , I mean they 're just they just think everybody owes them something , and it 's like Neil , I mean , to me I mean I ca n't see why he ca n't get off his backside and go and work in a supermarket but it 's not the job they want , the same answer I said |