Example sentences of "make a go of " in BNC.
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| 1 | OL' MARK Perry 's been around y'know — in at the start , an integral part , remember '77 — but apart from founding the fanzine , Sniffin' Glue , he 's never really made a go of it as a rocker . |
| 2 | He did n't interfere here , Uncle saw to that , so I 've had a free hand in the shop and although I say it myself I 've made a go of it . ’ |
| 3 | OL' MARK Perry 's been around y'know — in at the start , an integral part , remember '77 — but apart from founding the fanzine , Sniffin' Glue , he 's never really made a go of it as a rocker . |
| 4 | ‘ If your own family is so badly brought up , ’ thundered a Scottish columnist , ‘ so lacking in moral fibre that it can not make a go of its marriages , what price all those Christmas homilies ? ’ |
| 5 | If he ca n't make a go of them , nobody can . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Oh dear , ’ Louise said , unhappily , ‘ I did so hope that you two would make a go of it , but with all the rows I do n't really know , I 'm sure … ’ |
| 7 | Discs realised maybe they could make a go of it . |
| 8 | It may sound priggish , but she says it 's unwise to go against one 's nature , its fundamental requirements , she knew that she could only make a go of it , a real go — and that was what she wanted — with some very extraordinary kind of man , and she had n't met him yet . |
| 9 | ‘ Think you can make a go of it ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll make a go of it , see if we do n't , ’ she said to Folly as she left . |
| 11 | She just knew she could make a go of it ! |
| 12 | I think for me I love erm er er er I love a challenge , and er I suspect the fact that before I went into it people said it was erm something which was erm absolutely impossible er er and that the their was no way that one could make a go of it erm made it made it made it perhaps all the more challenging to try to prove them wrong . |
| 13 | I 'm clean , my love , I 'm gon na make a go of it . |
| 14 | Carol found herself wishing that Fred could make a go of something . |
| 15 | I know about market gardening and I could make a go of that . |
| 16 | Ronni frowned at him as he continued , ‘ I think they 'll make a go of it . |
| 17 | A trawler-owning ancestor of mine bought the island , apparently convinced he could make a go of farming in a place surround by his beloved sea . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I thought I 'd wait until I made a go of it before I told you . |
| 19 | So he made a go of permanently avoiding the issue . |
| 20 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |
| 21 | NATURALLY , BOTH Jim and Fruitbat have the wit and honesty to carry the whole affair and actually make a go of the potentially over-sanitised ‘ indie ’ event . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's a good kid and I hope that she and Sidney 's boy make a go of it . ’ |
| 23 | Given that there is a living to be made at night , and given that alternative daytime trades are thoroughly occupied , natural selection has favoured bats that make a go of the night-hunting trade . |
| 24 | Like others , he would be dismayed to find a good service submerged in yet another change , after the election , just as many Trust hospitals appear to be making a go of it . |
| 25 | Jean is right now making a go of a job that is about caring for others and often in emergency situations . |
| 26 | I keep expecting to hear you and Cora-Beth are making a go of it ? |
| 27 | ‘ I decided to make a go of it , ’ she says |
| 28 | Still , the Poles appear determined to make a go of it . |
| 29 | She was determined to make a go of this new house , in which she felt so much more cheerful , and understood fully how much depended on Mr Landor 's tractability . |
| 30 | A marriage can do the same , provided the couple are prepared to talk things through and really want to make a go of it . |