Sentence examples for able to fetch something from inspiring English sources

A chifforobe, in the living room, was a monument of security to the boy and his optimistic mother; from it they had always been able to fetch something practical and protecting and matter-of-fact.

I turned away from my work, went inside the house to fetch something.

One of them, at Carlos's request, disappeared for a minute to fetch something.

On how many occasions do you go upstairs to fetch something and forget what it was?

I'd get up to fetch something to eat, and when I returned, there he was, still filling my screen, smiling, proclaiming, self-satisfied, eternal.

Did I mention that Millet found the photos and notebook that alerted her to Henric's affairs when he "asked me to fetch something from his desk"?

"Everybody close his eyes!" he cried out when, still without his trousers, he had to fetch something from the English-speaking office.

Romero was arrested, and while the cops were questioning Quesada she said that she needed to fetch something from a side table.

One of the questions raised by the Rico study was that of what was going through the dog's mind when he was asked to fetch something.

Sometimes they leave it running while they go somewhere else to fetch something they'd forgotten or study their faces in the mirror.

(Going to the kitchen to fetch something, while remembering what it was you needed, for example).