The word "fetched" is correct in written English
It is typically used to describe the action of going to get something and bringing it back.
Example: "She fetched a glass of water from the kitchen."
Alternatives: "Retrieved" or "Brought back."
At first, Naipaul's literary agent (soon to be fired) judged the book too "cerebral" and, as the author sourly notes, "a year's work fetched only $25,000".
He knew she would be perfect and fetched the family and introduced Everlyn to the director the next day.
"You can carry on screaming," said one German soldier, but another seems to have taken pity and fetched a Jewish doctor from within the camp: "And I gave birth to a healthy girl.
Many of the old hands are ready to go when the time comes; indeed one hound - Champ, who used to spend his summers near Helvellyn - did not need to be fetched, he just went on his own.
In 2007 Sotheby's auctioned 10 love letters from Saint-Exupéry to a female military officer in Algeria, which fetched €190,000, and last year one of his handwritten manuscripts sold at auction for €250,000.
Fancy a five-bed, four-bath lakeside villa with a swimming pool in Florida, less than 20 minutes drive to Walt Disney World – on the market for $259,900 £154,5000) compared to the $360,000 it fetched just after construction in 2005?
It would be far-fetched to describe the US and Britain's long-term relationship with Saudi Arabia as a love affair, although elements of romance, blind infatuation and lustful mutual gratification have never been entirely absent.
To describe this as the 'abolition of Parliamentary democracy' - as some critics have - is more than a little far-fetched.
The prospect of a multi-party government with a wafer-thin majority switching prime ministers after five months might sound pretty far-fetched.
It may seem a little far-fetched, but it's the casting choice his wife would like to see.
And, somehow, that's nothing like as far-fetched as it might be from another actor about another film.
