Example sentences of "have a go at the [noun] " 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 | Presumably they pick up the pinta and down the sherry and beer as well , not to mention making it look as if the reindeers have had a go at the carrots . |
| 3 | Do you have you ever had a go at the piano or that ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | MAX : You mean I can have a go at the tune ? |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | He was having a go at the privet hen . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The new manager was n't having a go at the players who 'd lost two-nil to Sporting . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | It 's only worth using MPs to have a go at the government , and then you spoon-feed it to them . ’ |
| 12 | It looked as if I would have to have a go at the electricity meter with an electro-magnet again . |
| 13 | I 'm going to have a go at the BBC as well as everyone else . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ He needs at least two or three races if he 's to have a go at the Champion again . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't wait to have a go at the Hun myself . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We 're taking it very seriously , and I had a go at the players after our game in Italy . |
| 23 | ‘ I had a go at the players in the dressing room after the match , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ She had a go at the weeds perhaps , ’ said Roland , who felt threatened by damp and melancholy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You 're going to get the drill and have a go at the drilling session ? |