I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fetch a good/high etc price British English , bring a good, high etc price American English (= be sold for a particular amount of money )
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I’m sure the painting would fetch a good price in London.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
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Work him over while I fetch my car .
doctor
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She sent Beuno to fetch the doctor .
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Emerging from the cave they encounter the masked form of Koquillion, who bids them to fetch the Doctor at once.
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Joseph told me to fetch the doctor , so I ran to the village, although I knew it was too late.
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Ace decided that it was time to fetch the Doctor .
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Sophie went to fetch the family doctor , who was at the theatre.
pound
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Read in studio A Victorian mental hospital is up for sale ... and could fetch more than two million pounds .
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Voice over A car similar to this G-T-O fetched four million pounds at auction last year.
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Voice over Meanwhile back at Tenbury, the holly and mistletoe were fetching up to a pound for a pound in weight.
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The collection had been expected to fetch up to eighty thousand pounds .
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One of my Saturday jobs as a youngster was to fetch seven pounds of Mixed Corn from this shop.
price
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They're considered the best talkers, and fetch high prices as pets.
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Some properties on Nob Hill have fetched prices in the $ 4 million range, she said.
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It can fetch a high price .
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It attracts huge crowds to exhibitions and fetches high prices at auctions in New York, London and Paris.
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He learnt to make excellent cheeses - they fetched good prices in Athens.
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Many farmers stopped producing cocoa altogether or switched to food crops, like maize or cassava, that fetched more reliable prices .
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Victorian and Edwardian models fetch a very good price !
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The tradition has continued so that work by the Hermannsburg school now fetches good prices .
water
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I met a couple of Peace Corps volunteers who walked a kilometre each morning to fetch water .
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Chutra went to the well to fetch water .
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Guruji asks one of the companions to fetch a glass of water .
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The bird tried to fetch water from the well to put it out, but fell in the well and drowned.
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He fetched water and splashed it over the twitching boy.
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Then it was time to gather firewood, fetch water and cook.
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It was very possibly from that actual spring that Mary would have made daily journeys to fetch water .
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Father Kleinsorge went to fetch water for the wounded in a bottle and a teapot he had borrowed.
■ VERB
go
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Léonie, Madeleine said: go and fetch the salad will you?
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The bridegroom goes to fetch his bride from her own house.
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She looks a bit cold, so I go and fetch the blanket off my bed and wrap it round her shoulders.
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Nat let him in and went to fetch Tony who appeared wearing a pair of boxer shorts and a big smile.
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Then they'd go with Dad to fetch Grandpa while Mum finished preparing the meal.
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Even though it meant that going to fetch the letters gave you scratches and nettle-stings.
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John and his brother Dave went to fetch three large tables.
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I simply went and fetched a squeezer of magi-blue and a pair of my socks, in a pleasing electric blue.
run
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Excitedly he tied his red neckerchief to the plant's stem and ran home to fetch a shovel.
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Rebecca ran upstairs to fetch the box.
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I realized he was feeling ill and ran to fetch the rum.
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Philip ran out to fetch the guttering and the pipe and came in again.
send
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She sent Beuno to fetch the doctor.
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She sent me to fetch two cups, and told me then to go to my own tea.
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Sometimes we get sent to fetch lifers to come over to our side.
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Some time after, not having received a reply, they had sent the eunuch to fetch her.
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He sent a car to fetch his parents and had them installed in a suite at the Savoy.
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Requesting the congregation to leave, he sent his son to fetch an air rifle.
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Most of the officers had to send orderlies to fetch their bows.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Could you fetch me a screwdriver?
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It's a very old car, but I'm still hoping it'll fetch around £200.
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Jim's gone to fetch the police.
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Martha fetched a towel from the bathroom.
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Rushworth went to fetch the key to the gate.
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Some properties have fetched prices in the $4 million range.
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Van Gogh's "Sunflowers' was expected to fetch more than $20 million.
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Where's your mug? Go and fetch it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As she fetched sugar and milk and her favourite cup and saucer, she made up her mind to break with him.
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For a moment Rex and I gaped, and then Rex dived into the cabin to fetch his camera.
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I turned to the older boy and told him to fetch them from the refrigerator.
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It is the first time a sculpture from the period has fetched such a sum.
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Nat let him in and went to fetch Tony who appeared wearing a pair of boxer shorts and a big smile.
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Somehow he'd have to get up to the wood today to fetch down his Dad's clippers and wire.
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Trondur had hurried forward to fetch his biggest harpoon which he kept strapped across the bows.
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Truck doan come to fetch , eh?
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But I act as general dogsbody, carry books, go fetch , good boy, that kind of thing.
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On the other hand fetch is the limiting factor in the height of waves generated by easterly winds over the North Sea.