Example sentences of "go and [verb] [prep] a " 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 | They decide to go and look at a new house they passed earlier in the day . |
| 6 | Bob felt obliged to go and look at a certain number of these places out of politeness . |
| 7 | Free all that valuable time wasted on such bureaucratic chores to go and listen to a few people who have something important to say . |
| 8 | So he told me to go and ask for a job there . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Having carried out the research , let's say we know where we are going and arrive at a beautiful river . |
| 11 | I says I sure of that and er I left and went and got into a row over it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Canaris offered Schellenberg a cigarette and they went and leaned on a parapet over-looking the lake . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Let's go and drink to a life of crime . ’ |
| 17 | I 'll go and stay at a hotel in some quite other place , somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 18 | ‘ No , I wo n't go and sit on a mountain . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ We 'll go and look in a boat . ’ |
| 22 | Whatever happened to Shurll , Jane wondered — did she go and live in a hollow tree ? |
| 23 | Do you think I should go and live in a commune in San Francisco ? |
| 24 | Then the man voted Britain 's most-polite interviewer said : ‘ I might go and celebrate with a beer and a bag of crisps now . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | I mean unless you actually do go and work for a specifically religious charity , |
| 27 | You can actually go and work for a living . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's one person you meet sitting in a restaurant having a chat , and then that person will go and put on a see-through lurex all-in-one bodice and stand in front of 10,000 people and make a complete cunt of himself and not think about it . |
| 29 | ‘ I sometimes go and stay at a house where a girl was killed . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's just not possible for me to pack a briefcase and go and stay in a Hilton somewhere looking for business and agents . |