Example sentences of "calls [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or what Pete calls my funny tea . |
| 2 | Theresa , who does n't mind being called a whore but starts screaming if anyone calls her retarded , is the kind of character who seems to promise a fate worse than rape , but the greatest violence reside in Al , who tries to calm himself with images of lambs , only to have them open their mouths to show him teeth and worms . |
| 3 | Then a customer calls her shameless . |
| 4 | The computer takes care of the nuts and bolts of the composition , the component Dr Mathews calls its predetermined part . |
| 5 | Mr Pope drew from memory a remarkably accurate sketch of the hexagonal table with headsets , an example of which I was able to inspect at Telecom Technology Showcase , as British Telecom calls its new museum . |
| 6 | The US calls its latest weapon the Ground Launched Cruise Missile ( GLCM ) , inevitably pronounced ‘ glickum ’ . |
| 7 | Japan 's stance over what it calls its Northern Territories has been that there can be no peace treaty between the two countries until all four of the islands ( Etorofu , Kunashiri , Shikotan and Habomai ) are returned . |
| 8 | He calls his new ale Pierrepoint 's Last Drop . |
| 9 | Carl Ledbetter , SunSelect 's general manager , perhaps best remembered by the industry as the erstwhile chief executive officer of ETA Systems , Control Data Corp 's supercomputer subsidiary , calls his new charge ‘ Sun 's heretical sect . ’ |
| 10 | Magdalena Abakanowicz shows work from the past five years at Marlborough , including a couple of ten-foot-high hand-like bronze trees ; Joel Shapiro fills both up- and downtown Pace with recent bronzes incorporating cylindrical and spherical forms new to his repertoire ( both shows until 5 June ) ; Beverly Pepper peppers Emmerich with new bronzes as well as a survey , in photographs and maquettes , of recent public commissions ; and Robert Shelton , who hears the surf pounding daily in his Malibu studio , calls his recent show at Louver ‘ thingsgetwet ’ . |
| 11 | Maslow calls his experiential self-actualization workshops ‘ laboratories ’ in self-knowledge ( Maslow and Chiang 1977 ) . |
| 12 | Blair calls his low-budget high-tech approach ‘ electronic cinema ’ and says it will be the form of the Nineties for creative independents . |
| 13 | Mark calls his patient Martha back in London and leaves a message on the answering machine . |
| 14 | No wonder the mysterious Amerindian guru , Don Juan , with uncharacteristic directness calls his anthropological mouth-piece , Carlos Castaneda , a ‘ pimp ’ . |