Example sentences of "[conj] you could call it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or you could call it Brinkley Centenary |
| 2 | When the train stopped he dragged his heavy suitcase onto the platform ; if you could call it a platform because it was only some wooden planks resting on a pile of milkcrates . |
| 3 | If you could call it afternoon when there 'd been no lunch . |
| 4 | If you could call it that . |
| 5 | Parker — his first name was Hugh , if his pals called him Shug or Shuggie — it was his first sore eye , his first fight , if you could call it that , since he was a child ; about six or seven , a girl had beat him up . |
| 6 | The altar , if you could call it that , was as a block of ice to him . |
| 7 | The only fault — if you could call it a fault on a brand-new guitar — is that it 's perhaps still a bit closed-in and inhibited . |
| 8 | Its one wart , if you could call it that , is its oddball control layout . |
| 9 | ‘ You can come through to the kitchen and help me make the tea , ’ Miss Honey said , and she led the way along the tunnel into the kitchen — that is if you could call it a kitchen . |
| 10 | She smiled however , if you could call it a smile . |
| 11 | Yesterday 's rehearsal — if you could call it that . |
| 12 | She was in limbo and would be for the rest of her life , if you could call it a life , dragging out its weary length with no more great joys or fearful griefs for her , for her blood was running too thin to bear them . |
| 13 | Often when we went to Retford by train , we used to wait for George Hird 's bus , if you could call it a bus . |
| 14 | I suppose a couple of centuries ago most of the commercial production of energy , if you could call it that two centuries ago , was via windmills and perhaps watermills , but why do n't we go back to wind power ? |