Example sentences of "went and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenny bought two coffees and two buns and we went and sat down . |
| 2 | I made myself pretty busy : got pissed , went and screamed at Jamie , saw a million movies , realised with horror that that ate up only a week . |
| 3 | Cameron went and spoke to James angrily , in a quiet voice , What were they doing , holding a ceilidh ? |
| 4 | We never reckoned with this when we went and trounced the lairds ! ’ |
| 5 | Whenever he complained too much about cost she went and bought what she needed with her own money . |
| 6 | Maggie watched the car turn carefully out into the main road and then she went and closed the gate under the big yew tree . |
| 7 | Mona went and opened both doors . |
| 8 | And then you went and danced with that Lout — and with Herman . |
| 9 | Then the smile went and the eyes were veiled and Omi rose and said , ‘ I do n't think anyone would want to hear my memoirs . |
| 10 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 11 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 12 | In Australia , he had rejuvenated a sport that had been declining for years ; in England , he did exactly the same , leaving people exhilarated by his team 's play wherever they went and creating a great new surge of interest in the game . |
| 13 | He remembered that his wife had one precious jewel , and he did what no man should ever do — he went and gave his wife 's only jewel to the beggar . |
| 14 | His Mum got up off his bed and went and opened his cupboard . |
| 15 | He left them on the road and went and tried again . |
| 16 | Away they went and never came back . |
| 17 | But then he went and jumped out of a plane in France . |
| 18 | But the Germans went and got him . ’ |
| 19 | He never went and did it … . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You only went and wrote your name on the outside , did n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I went and got the pressure-cooker to brain him with and was just about to bring it crashing down on his bonce when I heard Mike calling from the next room . |
| 23 | They can be a bit thick at the best of times , ; you know that amphora you sent me ? well my lot only went and peed in it — I have to go now , Tony 's coming for his Osso Buco . |
| 24 | The Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls , who on finding one pearl of great price went and sold all that he had and bought it . |
| 25 | ‘ What I 'm sayin' is , the fuckin' fool went and sold out to Penumbra — bad lady twice over . |
| 26 | Wilson went and it was more the going that helped her than the services themselves . |
| 27 | But back Northampton went and though they held the first Nottingham surge they could not stop the second and scrum-half Hughes dived over on the left to score a try which earned a standing ovation . |
| 28 | He went and got the wood , he done it all … |
| 29 | He went and he sold his footage to all three networks , NBC , ABC , CBS for $10,000 each . |
| 30 | Yes , exactly , I 've spent time in Russia , this guy went and put a model in these situations . |