'You must try my home-made brandy,' said Jane, a diminutive 90-year-old with a wild nest of grey hair, 'it's a local speciality.' Before I could protest, she had sent her daughter to fetch the bottle.
With that, the assistant fetched the manager.
YZ fetched the tissues from operation.
Now, all of a sudden, it's being packaged in ridiculously blingy bottles and fetching the sort of prices you pay for a bottle of Krug.
Ms Wallace told Bristol Crown Court Mr van Dongen fetched a bottle of acid from the kitchen during an argument the day before he was allegedly attacked.
"It's daft," a man settled in a Glasgow pub said to me not long ago, talking about the sums that rare Scotch whiskies sometimes fetch at auction — the bottle of Dalmore 64-year-old, for example, that sold last month for nearly $200,000.
Eva didn't normally drink in the daytime, but, maybe because it was so close to Christmas, she had fetched a bottle of white wine out of the fridge, instead of doling out the usual coffee and biscuits, and Martha had opened up after her second glass, talking about how unhappy she was with James, and how tired she was of being taken for granted.
Then I wash the milk bottles and I fetch the sun-dried nappies from the balcony.
So, we fetched a bottle and had iceberg-chilled wine, content this was almost certainly a level of decadence even Elton John has never managed.
