Example sentences of "have a go at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But the fact that you 've had a go at the questionnaire means that you are at least beginning to think a little positively . |
2 | Do you have you ever had a go at the piano or that ? |
3 | Also , one of my carers — who is very caring , goes all the time , does the work for the person — is very young and quite quiet , and I feel … well last week a doctor came in to see her client , and if it had been one of the older carers I 'm sure they would have had a go at the doctor and forced him to do more than he actually did . |
4 | MAX : You mean I can have a go at the tune ? |
5 | ‘ It 's too small for any of us , but he might be able to get out and have a go at the door from the other side . ’ |
6 | He was having a go at the privet hen . |
7 | Having a go at the piker , the bilker and the debtor as he tries to shield his recession-affected business or his mortgaged home from just retribution must surely count as sport . |
8 | ‘ 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 . |
9 | It 's only worth using MPs to have a go at the government , and then you spoon-feed it to them . ’ |
10 | It looked as if I would have to have a go at the electricity meter with an electro-magnet again . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | ‘ He needs at least two or three races if he 's to have a go at the Champion again . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
19 | There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark , but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic , who , I infer , also had a go at the research on skeleton weed . |
20 | You 're going to get the drill and have a go at the drilling session ? |