Example sentences of "go and [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean do we want to go and stay with the children at camp or shall we stay home ? |
| 2 | He wondered whether he should ask Crumwallis to go and sit with the boarders in the dormitory , while he had a word with this young Freely . |
| 3 | This word ‘ gently ’ enhances the tenderness of the lines , while ‘ fields unsown ’ tells us that the man had to go and work in the fields , suggesting a strength and a vigour which he must have had and thereby making his death harder to accept . |
| 4 | It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories . |
| 5 | ‘ But we 've got to go and help with the horses . |
| 6 | Besides , you need to motivate workers in safe seats to go and help in the others . |
| 7 | I 'll be back in a second — I have to go and see to the hors-d'oeuvres — management 's orders . ’ |
| 8 | He 's got to go and deal with the children , take them to and from work , then run a business . |
| 9 | I had to keep the house going and look after the kids . |
| 10 | I went and sniffed around the edges of the frosted glass back door : a good , clean , slightly sweet smell . |
| 11 | I 've started that , I 've got ta , just got ta I went and played on the computers yesterday . |
| 12 | Many of those who went and fought for the Republicans were not always clear about why they were there , except that they felt a revulsion against fascism and a general feeling that they had to do something in the face of the frustrations of the 1930s . |
| 13 | Leaving the engine running , he went and leaned on the railings . |
| 14 | I remember this time after school there was a fight between blacks and whites ; I went and stayed in the toilets for a half-hour thinking what I should do and that 's when I really took a look at myself and thought about the white kids calling me names and the black kids saying ‘ come on ’ so I said ‘ all right ’ . |
| 15 | And er and and Peter because of his fear of the Jews says , okay I , I wo n't do that any more , I 'll go and , I 'll just go and sit with the Jews . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the only alternative seems to be for the baby to be looked after by her mother , and she will go and visit in the evenings when her father has gone off to his night work . |
| 17 | " Well , let's go and talk to the others . |
| 18 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 19 | I know , Thérèse shouted : let's go and look at the kittens . |
| 20 | the trouble is though when you have these meetings you go and people say well I do n't agree with this and I do n't agree with that and somebody says well this is n't the matter for the P T A this is a matter for the governors and then when you try and , like Gary I 'll go and approach with the governors , surely this is n't a matter for the governors , this really ought to be , you know , the , |
| 21 | And I thought like ah , and then mum sa I told mum , and she went you bastard , he told me that he gone and went to the hairdressers and done that . |
| 22 | And is n't that just the case with everything you gone and done over the centuries of black oppression ? |
| 23 | ‘ Go and sit in the lounges of the luxury hotels and on the doorsteps of the flophouses ; sit on the Gold Coast settees and on the slum shakedowns ; sit in Orchestra Hall and in the Star and Garter Burlesk . |
| 24 | Cicely put on a cheerful expression and tactfully , as though thinking to leave the newly engaged couple to say goodnight in private , she smiled , ‘ If you 'll excuse us , Leith , Guthrie and I always go and check on the horses before we go up to bed . |
| 25 | Go and talk to the fitters , interest myself in what made buses work and how they worked when down in the pits . |
| 26 | Go and look at the stones . |
| 27 | go and look over the shoes Bev and see if there 's , what sevens there are would you |