Example sentences of "[vb base] you [vb mod] call [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignoring the sarcasm beneath the sugar coating , he went on smoothly , ‘ As we 'll be working together , I hope you 'll call me Michele . ’ |
| 2 | Jerk you should call him ! |
| 3 | ‘ He [ Lord Rendlesham ] used to have his own coffee — I suppose you would call them plantations would you ? |
| 4 | The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment . |
| 5 | Well I suppose you would call it a union would n't you . |
| 6 | I suppose you would call it a truss in English . |
| 7 | I suppose you would call us dissidents . |
| 8 | I suppose you might call me a gent . ’ |
| 9 | I suppose you might call it a deterioration when the ticking stops . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In my view it 's even more interesting than the Soane museum in Lincoln 's Inn Fields ; a perverse neo-classicism I suppose you 'd call it . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose you 'd call it that but I did n't look at it that way . |
| 14 | I suppose you 'd call it ‘ Glorious theft for the sake of the Revolution ’ . |
| 15 | I suppose you could call me a born optimist . ’ |
| 16 | We arrived on time at the factory , which was easily recognisable by the huge Supersight logo on the front of the building — one of those light industrial units , painted in bright primary colours , which litter the landscape of Britain — bright , satanic mills , I suppose you could call them . |
| 17 | I suppose you could call him something of a gear freak . |
| 18 | I suppose you could call us rivals . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose you could call it that . |
| 20 | Erm there 's um ah the origins of the myth that you can catch V D off toilet seats I suppose you could call it . |
| 21 | Yes , I 'd say there was a definite move towards the same kinds of objects , the same kinds of styles and qualities of furniture being found in a wide variety of income groups , areas of the town , different types of houses , a much more over-all feel , really , a move towards classlessness I suppose you could call it . |
| 22 | ‘ RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk , though I suppose you should call it USAF Bentwaters . ’ |
| 23 | Clues , I guess you 'd call them . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I guess you could call them orgies in the strictest definition , ’ he admitted . |
| 25 | He gave a cool laugh , drawled , ‘ I guess you could call it the madonna-whore complex . ’ |
| 26 | Juliet , I 'm afraid you 're not prepared for this search at all , you do n't know what you 've got into , and I think you ought to call it off right now . |
| 27 | No I think you 'd call it a C |
| 28 | ‘ I think you could call it the metaphorical baked meats for our secretary . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish you would call me Miguel . ’ |