Example sentences of "[noun] as [pron] call " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do their best to make even our delightful local trattoria in Mondano sound like a Berni Inn in Basingstoke as they call raucously for prawn cocktail and steak and chips , having to settle with obvious disgust for the pure poetry of Signora Sparanti 's risotto con funghi . |
| 2 | Everything he has done has been aimed at bringing the country to dictatorship , to presidential rule as they call it . |
| 3 | He has already done this and has brought the country to dictatorship , to presidential rule as they call it . |
| 4 | The timetable has been organised in such a way that the divisions in the debate — knives as we call them — fall in places that allow the most time in debate to be given to the most contentious issues . |
| 5 | Earlier this month a bill began its passage through California 's legislature which would sentence touts , or scalpers as it calls them , to a fine of $1,000 or a year in jail . |
| 6 | The call up the stairs made her compress her lips as she called on all her reserves of courage to face the ordeal ahead of her . |
| 7 | They 're really faithful your greyhound followers are n't they , all your punters as you call them , they come snow , rain , hail , thunder , it does n't matter . |
| 8 | He would he would go in as a boy , but a rivet boy a heater as we called them . |
| 9 | Other at other times you would have er hand riveters where you had maybe two riveters and a holder-on , and er a heater as they called , a rivet boy . |
| 10 | D' you know what happened after that , at my splendid home as you called it ? |
| 11 | That 's the Icelandic so there 's some of the historical things that ladies had learned to do with their hands knitted on pins of various er calibres or d degrees , gauges as I call them . |
| 12 | maybe before I was ten year old , turning the handle of the wap mill as they called it . |
| 13 | But indoors meant her thoughts and Piers , neither of which she felt strong enough to endure , so she grimaced at the weather and resolutely plodded into the village , dripping over the telephone as she called the one and only astrologer listed in the directory . |
| 14 | One day Anna came down , Eccellenza as they call her there , and saw Mena . |
| 15 | I also understand from meetings , I 'm meeting a group of social workers as I call them , that are dealing with the people with learning difficulties , erm , these are at present taking place in the Castle Hall . |
| 16 | And I , I 'm going to be working from behind Denise because you all need to see , but you would be working from the front as I 've already talked about , so you need your triangular bandage , alright , and there 's your long edge , and there 's your point as we call it , a sort of elbow shaped , think of that as elbow shaped because it always goes towards the injured elbow . |
| 17 | The only carpet was in the best room , or the visitors ' room as they called it . |
| 18 | Incidentally when doing phone-ins it 's a good idea to write down each person 5 name as they call in so that you can address them by name . |
| 19 | My understanding is that , instead of a completely new Centre , or Stadium Court as they call it over there , a major refurbishing of the existing facility will be undertaken which will probably also include the provision of a new Grandstand or No. 1 court within the existing grounds . |
| 20 | And this is on the bus going in to Clearwater on the free trolley as they call it . |
| 21 | What I say is roughly this : primitive art as we call it , tribal art , is usually very good . |
| 22 | Or the pistes as we call them . |
| 23 | Oh that was that was always done at new year time , or at least It was n't so much new year day as we called Yule Day . |
| 24 | Miss Tylee 's courtesy was unfailing — she was a neatly dressed lady who wore a velvet neckband and her ‘ pince-nez ’ or pinchers as we called them were attached to a thin gold necklet , ready to be placed at the end of her nose when she was searching for something required by her customers . |
| 25 | ‘ In this decree Pope Pius was taking a good swipe at those who would bring the church up to date , the modernists as they call themselves . |
| 26 | Aunt Dorcas , or Auntie Dor as we called her , was a wonderful person . |
| 27 | The sight of your poster in your office at King 's Lynn caused my son and daughter-in-law some amusement as they call Clark ‘ Captain Chaos ’ . |
| 28 | And when we got there we started to pack the small things on the front , the l the luton as we call it over the cab . |
| 29 | Mr Hawksworth , Charlie Hawksworth as they called him , was not there . |
| 30 | Could I just have a small poll , those who would like to er have S Q as they call it , status quo ? |