Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] we call " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 2 | I have to face the Matter as well , you know , and in this case that means that fucking doll or manikin or whatever we call it . |
| 3 | You 've all been and this is really addressed to H O H members , not to erm delegates group or whatever we call ourselves erm everyone 's been to a erm job evaluation H O H A discussion , right ? |
| 4 | You 're for real , or what we call real , according to our limited sensory equipment . |
| 5 | She is his wife , whether married in church , or what we call over here his common-law wife . |
| 6 | It reflects neither character or soul , nor what we call the self . |
| 7 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 8 | What a fine piece of historical irony it would be if from the heart of this wounded part of Europe there were to emerge a politics that would begin to show us how to be at home in the world , decently balancing the requirements of social justice and economic sufficiency , of finite nature and what we call human nature . |
| 9 | What we might think of as a process of deliberation and choice about our desires is , for him , simply the interplay and jostling of desires amongst themselves ; and what we call ‘ will ’ is simply the desire that wins . |
| 10 | The whole bent of thought , and what we call the spirit of the age , point straight in that direction . ’ |
| 11 | In our context , as the community church started , there were rumblings and complaints and what we call ‘ gonguzmos ’ ( Greek and onomatopoeic for grumbling and moaning ) : ‘ All the life has gone out of us ! ’ 'We 've no direction . ’ |
| 12 | Care versus control , genericism versus specialism , authority versus self-determination , which no matter how many innovative structures we construct and what we call them , are never adequately resolved . |
| 13 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 14 | So maybe what we call imaginary time is really more basic , and what we call real is just an idea that we invent to help us describe what we think the universe is like . |
| 15 | So however And then you start you 've got to start and use very little polish and very little methylated spirits and what we call to work out the the all that oil has to be lifted out and it 's you dra it 's you work in circles and work in circles cos that fills in the pores and then near when you 're on maybe bout the last th th takes about three or four coats you know , working on it All depends just how how how long it takes to get it filled up . |
| 16 | Er , a storage binder which is that big grey box over there , and what we call the active binder . |
| 17 | Er when you 're riding a horse , you see the weight is all on the back er whichever tendency do and what we call the gait er |
| 18 | But whatever we call it , this sense that words do not just have their face-value meaning , but are to be critically interpreted as indicators of tone and attitude , is an essential part of James 's technique . |