Example sentences of "[to-vb] a go at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 If the Times wishes to have a go at a book , then at least the paper should choose one that is worthy of shot and shell .
3 It 's only worth using MPs to have a go at the government , and then you spoon-feed it to them . ’
4 It looked as if I would have to have a go at the electricity meter with an electro-magnet again .
5 The two have never seen eye to eye apparently and although some papers called him a hothead , Horton insists he was n't going to have a go at the ref , who was given a police escort back to the dressing rooms .
6 ‘ He needs at least two or three races if he 's to have a go at the Champion again .
7 So I set out to have a go at the Station side , but it just happened that there was also a scratch side called the C.N. Lowe 15 .
8 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 .
9 Another guard , Wilfred Lane , said he had decided to have a go at the robber , by grabbing him round the neck and catching hold of his gun hand .
10 The hardworking Richard Webster and the busy Emyr Lewis had been knocked backwards time and again , whenever they try to have a go at the French .
11 In pr proof terms Chairman , we want to have a go at the District Health Authority and we want to have a go at the Regional Health Authority .
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