Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [modal v] call [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farm had originally been two or three houses and there was a little cottage at the back where a lady we used to call Aunt Polly lived . |
| 2 | ‘ Now to the remains of the infant I shall call Subject B. Examination of the pelvis usually allows sex to be determined with great confidence in very young children and even in the foetus . |
| 3 | It does this by demonstrating that once pragmatic implications of the sort we shall call implicature are taken into account , the apparently radical differences between logic and natural language seem to fade away . |
| 4 | Er , a category you could call , loosely , vocal and a category we could call body language perhaps , okay ? |
| 5 | ‘ For years I believed I did n't have even one person I could call family , ’ he said . |
| 6 | At the end of the debate I 'll call Ernie to put the C E C point of view in respect of the three motions left because they 're seeking reference . |
| 7 | He retained contact with another salesman still employed at DPR , whom for the purpose of this book we shall call Peter which is not his real name . |
| 8 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 9 | This ability we can call self-reflexivity . |