Example sentences of "a go at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here 's the cavalry behind him , he 's having a go at them now . |
| 2 | Someone 's had a go at them , that what you 're saying ? ’ |
| 3 | Have a go at them for yourself ; then check your answers with those on page 29 . |
| 4 | I do n't have a go at them . |
| 5 | Perhaps I 'll get Jessica to have a go at them , whenever she 's calmed down . ’ |
| 6 | I wonder what we can do if we have a go at them … ? ’ |
| 7 | As in fact I had a go at that I had a go at I had a go at them about another prod er another photograph . |
| 8 | ’ We wrote the single after moving into a little village and seeing all the people driving to their office jobs and we thought we 'd have a go at them ’ |
| 9 | Sibylle nevertheless demonstrates these in the hope that once members reach the privacy of the home and the comfort of a carpet , they may have a go at them . |
| 10 | and she said I oh she said I no more she said , I get tongue-tied so I thought well I 'm gon na have a go at them myself so I had a go at them . |
| 11 | and she said I oh she said I no more she said , I get tongue-tied so I thought well I 'm gon na have a go at them myself so I had a go at them . |
| 12 | He has a go at them . |
| 13 | Cos we said them young kids that had the trumpets for that thing , I bet she had a go at them and all not to knacker them . |
| 14 | You 'll have to have a go at them with all these rabbits ! |
| 15 | I 've have a go I 'll have a go at them they were they did n't look very good but , I mean , at least I did them , you know |
| 16 | Oh , everyone thought , he 's having a go at him about something . |
| 17 | He felt the Italian boy was going to have a go at him but I do n't know whether it was a punch or a head-butt . ’ |
| 18 | They will have a go at him . |
| 19 | There are a few people having a go at him now . |
| 20 | She often rang up the producer and had a go at him and made him swear never to do anything like that again . |
| 21 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 22 | Probably the invisible psychiatrist should have a go at him . " |
| 23 | And then my friends ' boyfriends , on an evening out , they used to just have a go at him , and I 'd feel really embarrassed . |
| 24 | IT would n't happen on this newspaper , of course , but in Washington a reporter got fed up with his editor having a go at him because his first sentences were too long . |
| 25 | He 's still young , could go into club management after a spell with England , and I bet he 's probably the *peoples choice * which would make his job easier as the press would think twice before having a go at him . |
| 26 | That s when one can be the straight man and the other can have a go at him . ’ |
| 27 | I said what will you do pull over and have a go at him . |
| 28 | And then I had a go at him . |
| 29 | that 's the third time he 's done it , I had such a go at him |
| 30 | You see , if Bill comes over he has a go at Bill , even though he knows Bill , but because he do n't see him that much he has a go at him . |