Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result of the two intelligence services , army intelligence , the Royal Ulster Constabulary 's Special Branch , and various odd freelancers all having a go at the same time was , not surprisingly , a total disaster . |
| 2 | Er the market we 're looking at there the Pan-Pacific basin there especially showing a market at the moment . |
| 3 | A dancer coming forwards can convey a variety of meaning : giving a greeting ; asking a question , even if it is only an inquisitive movement of the head ; saying Yes , or agreeing with a nod or with a particular wave of the hand ; giving something with arms circling outwards , e.g. Natalia and the Tutor when they open their arms to each other ; or merely proffering a hand at the beginning of a dance , e.g. Paris offering his hand to Juliet . |
| 4 | Y yes we 're just we 're just having a look at the the spellings at the moment trying to make some sense of them . |
| 5 | ’ He was infallible , kindly and not above having a go at the medicinal whisky . |
| 6 | Finally taking a look at the traffic on Nottingham 's roads as far as I can tell it 's all moving fairly steadily . |
| 7 | As we have seen , it was encouraging that over half the applicants , while not taking a course at the institutions in our study , did take up courses at other institutions . |
| 8 | Leaving aside the difficulty of not making a provision at the same time as one is undertaking the assessment , this approach has produced two serious difficulties . |
| 9 | He is not cocking a snook at the authorities , he is putting his passengers at risk and that is a very serious matter . |
| 10 | Scarborough police are also investigating a burglary at the Citadel Salvation Army building in the town where thieves made off with an Atari computer worth £520 . |
| 11 | Lynam lit the fuse by first questioning captain Lineker about the mood in the squad and then turning on Taylor , who now says : ‘ I end up having a go at the ‘ housewives ' choice ’ and it really was n't me . |
| 12 | Who would have thought that the terribly modern Carter would end up having a crack at the Christmas Number One with a song written in the 1950s and once covered by Elvis Presley ? |
| 13 | ‘ Gud Seive The Quinn , Gud Seive The Quinn ’ chant the lambchop Euro punx , much to the disgust of the band who can be heard narkily having a go at the audience and each other between the awful squawl of their live sound . |
| 14 | ‘ However , many pupils give up learning a language at the end of the third year . |
| 15 | Can you imagine that you 've got the sun here shining a light at the earth there . |
| 16 | The new manager was n't having a go at the players who 'd lost two-nil to Sporting . |
| 17 | Unix International Europe 's technical director , Nick Price , was n't taking a swipe at the whole Posix standards effort in last week 's piece ( UX No 397 ) , he just wanted to point out that the Posix P1003.1 specification alone is no guarantee of portability . |
| 18 | A small firm on the brink of disaster two years ago cocking a snook at the recession by doubling its workforce and turning out garden tractors in the face of high demand … today saw number 5,000 roll off the line . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , officers are in a position of sometimes telling a prisoner at the end of a week , that you ca n't have a bath or a shower and there is no change of clean underwear . |
| 20 | MEANWHILE , if you 're not actually strangling a turkey at the moment then you might like to do the next worse thing and plunge into the unsavoury giblets of the 1990 calendar of the National Association of Conservative Graduates . |