Example sentences of "[noun prp] would [adv] call " in BNC.

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1 She showed a profound deference to the beauty she described , never searching for meaning or metaphor in the landscape , never striving to achieve what Keats would later call the ‘ wordsworthian or egotistical sublime ’ .
2 Dickin asked whether Anthony would ever call ‘ Go on darlin ' , show us yer legs ’ to a man ?
3 If , as I 'm inclined to believe , this unwonted willingness to kiss the rod represents one last offer by Pound ( at this time , aged forty-eight ! ) to enrol in Binyon 's seminar if Binyon would only call it into being , Binyon once again knew better than to understand what Pound was driving at .
4 Apart from his father , Hugo 's family had consisted entirely of women — his mother , his three sisters , his maternal grandmother and various assorted aunts and cousins all of whom ( his mother excepted ) had striven to dress with what Hugo would later call ‘ panache ’ on a pittance .
5 Harry would often call his son in New York to tell him how much money the film was making in various cities , while Lillian phoned local LA cinemas to see how long the ticket queues were .
6 And Little Billy would always call back and say , ‘ I 'm being good , Mummy . ’
7 The solicitor 's letter added that if Miss Honey would kindly call in to the office as soon as possible , then the property and the money could be transferred into her name very rapidly .
8 Bernard would sometimes call from London and say , ‘ Peter , why do n't you go down to New York for the day and see all the magazine editors ? ’
9 For Adorno ( as , at around the same time , for Clement Greenberg ) , the ‘ genuine ’ avant garde , represented most emblematically in his writing by his teacher , Schoenberg , was the last vestige of ‘ authentic art ’ whose difficulty and inaccessibility were the marks of its unassimilable difference and its negation of bourgeois rationality , capitalist purposiveness , and what Peter Sloterdijk would later call ‘ cynical reason ’ .
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