Example sentences of "[vb mod] call [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government are always making predictions , and in that sense the Chancellor may be described as the Mother Shipton — perhaps I should call him the Brother Shipton — of economics . |
| 2 | What we have here is one jet-black copy of a Lennon-style Rickenbacker 325 ( dubbed the RK-32B , ho ho ) and one red sunburst-finished copy of Townshend 's fave battleaxe the 330 , the Encore RK-33R ( I think we 'll call them the red one and the black one ) . |
| 3 | After World War two , a lot of people hoped that the we 'll call them the less agreeable characteristics of the German mind , would be changed by the traumatic experiences of the second total defeat in twenty years , physical destruction , national humiliation , embarrassment at having been made the collaborators of nazism and so on . |
| 4 | ‘ Okay , ’ said Bob affable , from now on I 'll call you the old tart . ’ |
| 5 | And we 'll call it the and we 'd have said and You find you find the value of the function , for a particular number , a particular input , a particular value of X. |
| 6 | He took care of the nation 's finances , Aunt Harriet had said , you might call him the Keeper of the Purse . |
| 7 | Now , erm on the subject of of the family , it 's worth mentioning another erm sort of debate that goes on within the subject of child sex abuse , the business of I suppose you might call it the business of responsibility . |
| 8 | You can process the musical history of the Eighties into any format you like-you could call it the decade of Dance , or of Conscience Rock , or of World Music . |
| 9 | Well , you need n't call it wages for housework , you could call it the state paying for childcare at home , could n't you ? |
| 10 | You could call it the Eureka factor . |
| 11 | ‘ I think you could call it the metaphorical baked meats for our secretary . |
| 12 | It has become apparent on some of the issues , some of the comments that we made that was if I could call it the you 'll know what we 're talking about and I do n't if we are talking about the there was there was a point somewhere where talked about ing an increase or short of journey time along the ring road and this has been taken as I understand to be that we are setting out an increase of speed er traffic on the sections of road to a junction and that 's totally in force and it was either . |
| 13 | He gave a cool laugh , drawled , ‘ I guess you could call it the madonna-whore complex . ’ |
| 14 | They said that in a political situation , if you had one side you could call it the thesis , say capitalism was the thesis and communism was the other side and that was the antithesis and that these two would one another and it was only when they came together and got their good points both of them adopted , that one was really going to get a satisfactory solution . |
| 15 | But er I do n't really remember erm people going out to work much ex except , I suppose you 'd call them the lower classes , or not really the working classes because er , but the lower classes they would take in washing . |
| 16 | Do you think being in love is let's call it the mating instinct , is being in love merely the mating instinct operating , button one for yes and button two for no , let's er , let's seal that little lust abate there , well forty seven say yes basically I suppose basically being in love is lust , fifty three say no and what about that , that other point , I mean should you marry for love ? , button one for yes and button two for no , should you marry for love ? well what very modern people you are , cos eighty two of you said yes , fifteen said no , who said no ? |
| 17 | Let's call it THE EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE ! ’ |
| 18 | Religious doctrine may describe these powers as the holy spirit descended into material form ; everyday terminology may call them the forces of Nature . |
| 19 | C they used to call them the horse boxes . |
| 20 | Oh yes very much so very much so there always has been , yeah they used to call them the faithful four thousand at one time . |
| 21 | Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there . |
| 22 | Oh to get your bargains oh yes they would n't , there were n't really good fridges in those days , there was co col cold rooms but erm they would be glad to get rid of the meat that they 'd already got cut up you see , and the barker , they used to call them the barkers , standing outside you see and get your fresh meat and so on , so on , so on , so you know and er to get the custom in you see , oh there was real competition between the barkers and there were barkers standing in road . |
| 23 | We used to call him the Butcher . ’ |
| 24 | And er the old man , they they used to call him the iron man and he was the iron man . |
| 25 | My mother used to call him the Sage in bloom , ’ she added , ‘ when he was chasing women , that was . ’ |
| 26 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 27 | I used to call it the spook walk . |
| 28 | Now Saturday night in Street , we used to call it the waits , Street waits , every Saturday night . |
| 29 | In fact , they used to call it the gun for the wild ducks do you see . |
| 30 | ‘ We used to call it the Bitching Hour . |