Example sentences of "go and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As Jonna rose to go and change back into his working clothes , he flushed with resentment .
2 Why would I want to go and wander around on these featureless big sods at the weekend , when I could be rollicking along a precipice on a terrifying , craggy west-coast mountain ?
3 now they 're asking me to go and sit down between them ,
4 He had some lovely tartan coloured rugs which I used to go and admire over at Clove Lodge , where he would take lodgings for the night .
5 But the truth is that HMI is to be privatised by the back door because the half of HMI who will not be employed by it will have to go and set up as private consultants .
6 I was strong enough next morning to go and look out of the front window .
7 And the lads used to go and pinch out of the girls ' bags .
8 We pay for people to go and live in for ever .
9 about going to India with him as his wife he goes and lays down like a , a granite pillar
10 When the attack ceased they managed to cannibalize parts to get one truck going and set off for the rendezvous with Fraser , only to find nobody there .
11 ‘ What I 'm sayin' is , the fuckin' fool went and sold out to Penumbra — bad lady twice over .
12 And then that one conservative who did go and do it , he swapped places with people who were on the dole , and he went and lived up in Newcastle .
13 Instead , uncharacteristically , he went and signed up with the Maharishi , paid out £146 , and has never regretted it for a single minute , although in fairness it has to be said that his wife has .
14 A smile curved her mouth , though , as she kicked off her shoes and went and lay down on her bed .
15 Triumphant but exhausted , I went and lay down in my tent .
16 He went and stared out of the window .
17 Between the calls , he went and hung out of the casement , in shirt and trousers , bare-footed , and breathed the sweet clean air .
18 Down she went and came back with the cups of tea and slices of cake on a tray .
19 Leith went and changed out of her suit and into jeans and a sweater , then took two telephone calls in quick succession — the first from Rosemary .
20 But then he went and jumped out of a plane in France .
21 She went and sat down at the stone table and Jack sank down opposite her .
22 I went and sat down with Lenny and Vin , who were making a kite .
23 I went and sat down on the lounging chair .
24 I went and sat down beside Vern , who was still asleep , took out my dreams and started to sort them out .
25 and I thought it was just tickling tickly you know and erm it was n't until I , su I went and sat back in my seat I was watching
26 But out he went and plopped down in the rough surrounding the green until , finally , a marshal suggested that he might be trespassing .
27 Or ‘ Why do n't you go and lay down in the middle of Piccadilly Circus ? ’
28 Well in them days you could , if you got fed up with a job you could just go and move on to another
29 You can go and pee out of the window .
30 It is with regret that we join the chorus of voices calling for the resignation of Jocelyn Stevens as chairman of Britain 's architectural and archaeological conservation body , English Heritage : any man so free of mealy-mouthed PR awareness as to tell a bothersome journalist to ‘ go and pee out of the window ’ is a true blue .
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