Example sentences of "[pron] you might [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Lots of our best workers are what you might call otaku , ’ says an ASCII spokesman .
2 ‘ She 's what you might call Limnititzker royalty , being the daughter of that great overblown patriarch , who is probably even now receiving homage from his own throng of mystical groupies on the other side of the sex-wall . ’
3 I am personally impressed and encouraged by what is going on in some of the hardest hit areas in my part of the world and by a series of what you might call chance accident , we 've actually got a sign on it on the platform here .
4 are things like erm in the area of what you might call citizenship , for example in the er European elections you could erm vote in another European country , you could actually stand for election in another European country .
5 This is what you might call phase one within the L P C.
6 Mr Ridley looked the reverse — what you might call cinegelet .
7 Apart from the weekly chess session he seems to have had no hobby , no what you might call recreation . ’
8 Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio .
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