Example sentences of "to have [art] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , Sugar and Spice for example by Nigel Williams ; I 'd love to have a go at doing the part of Sharon sometime , I think anything that is well written — that 's important . |
| 2 | EVERYONE is entitled to their opinion , and while I agree with Joe Hyam 's concerning service charges ( Caterer , 15–21 August ) , I feel he is taking unfair advantage of his position to have a go at people who do not do things the ‘ Joe Hyam ’ way . |
| 3 | I was very tempted to gamble the little money I had left in order to try and accumulate some more — tempted also to have a go just for the thrill of it . |
| 4 | Christ , I shall have no blood left if these little bastards continue to have a go at me ! |
| 5 | ‘ If I 'm given a challenge I have to have a go at it , ’ he admits , reflecting on the guiding principles that have taken him to the top of two major industries . |
| 6 | Knowing the Prince played the cello , the professor asked whether he would like to have a go . |
| 7 | Better to have a go and fail than not to have a go at all . ’ |
| 8 | Better to have a go and fail than not to have a go at all . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He needs at least two or three races if he 's to have a go at the Champion again . |
| 10 | It 's only worth using MPs to have a go at the government , and then you spoon-feed it to them . ’ |
| 11 | The army 's impatient colonels and majors may yet overrule the more cautious generals and decide to have a go . |
| 12 | The demonstrators against the war in the streets of the capital are using the weapon of Islamic solidarity to have a go at the western powers , and some are indirectly critical of Mr Suharto , who is assumed to be the West 's friend . |
| 13 | That enticing possibility is why they are bound to have a go . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe I 'll write a book and then take up that offer to have a go for the European Parliament . ’ |
| 15 | Easier to have a go than lie waiting for doom in the dark among additional hazards . |
| 16 | As I sowed my seeds in April , my four-year-old son hung around pestering to have a go . |
| 17 | They were so beautiful that I decided to have a go at growing them . |
| 18 | Sometimes I would like to have a go , experiment with make-up , but because Mum does n't wear any , it does n't occur to her that I might like to . |
| 19 | I just mean that the school , in the shape of its teachers , expected you to have a go at a lot of things and do well . |
| 20 | After this build-up , I had to have a go . |
| 21 | You do n't have to be an expert to have a go , and at some Clubs there 's free tuition for beginners . |
| 22 | Well we 've always wanted to have a go at windsurfing ; visit Ibiza Town … or perhaps just climb back onto that sunbed ! |
| 23 | I want to be a part of the sport , one sport which encompasses everyone from a small kid who wants to have a go at throwing the javelin because he has seen Steve Backley on television , through to the 60-year-old recreational runner . ’ |
| 24 | Back in the late 1940s , early 1950s , I remember my fishing mentor , the late Tom Kelly , Edinburgh , describing these wonderful , strange fish which displayed all the colours of the rainbow when they were caught ; and I could hardly wait to have a go . |
| 25 | Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election . |
| 26 | Apart from ice-skating and hockey in my youth , I was not keen on participating in sport , but the sight of skiers gliding over the unmarked hills of newly fallen snow was enticing ; so when the actor Jack Bowdry invited me to have a go at the ski-run atop Grouse Mountain , across the inlet from Vancouver , I agreed with alacrity . |
| 27 | Eventually Dad could wait no longer , saying , ‘ I 'm going to have a go ’ , and stepped up to pay his tuppence . |
| 28 | I wanted to have a go but being not yet seven was refused , however the sideshow gave me an idea . |
| 29 | The Luftwaffe came back to have a go at Chelsea and South Fulham , and above the noise of their engines we heard , for the first time ‘ Salt Peter Bluey , ’ as our nurses called him , give them hell 's delight with his raucous bark . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's the Iti 's turn to have a go at us tonight , Hitler has said that they may have a good go at us , as a reward for their help to him . ’ |