Example sentences of "i [modal v] only call " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also essential that he believed he was being cured , because of the need he would face soon for what I can only call ‘ self-help ’ . |
| 2 | But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing . |
| 3 | Most of these problems are to do with the nature of conversational English , which still suffers badly from our attempts to describe it using models which originate in earlier studies of the written language , and which have been influenced by what I can only call our innate desire for things to be neat and regular . |
| 4 | But he had given patient thought to the matter , just as he had to the rest of the alien anatomy ; and he had ventured on what I can only call an abstraction of the human face . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , in my view , Mrs. X has been shabbily treated in what I can only call a squalid affair . |
| 6 | I am sure that many must , like myself , have the feeling that the small democratic element which still exists within the governmental and constitutional framework of this country is being cast aside in favour of what I can only call a self-perpetuating oligarchy . |
| 7 | And I say there was some sort of a an embarrassment I can only call it |