Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] n't [adv] call " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't exactly call it the uncharted wilderness . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ In fact , I would n't even call it a slap , because she does n't cry , she just looks at me and laughs . ’ |
| 3 | It would receive a thick folder every month with a whole collection of random financial data — I ca n't even call it information . |
| 4 | ‘ Although I 'm champion and it 's been a wonderful year I feel I ca n't truly call myself the title holder until I beat Joey on the roads . ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 6 | If I had a nine-to-five job in an office , you could n't just call in . |
| 7 | You could n't really call this an accident , could ya . |
| 8 | ‘ On the day that your parents like the same music that you do , it 's all over ; you ca n't even call it rock'n'roll any more . |
| 9 | You ca n't exactly call it social climbing , because Jackie is , financially and in terms of celebrity , already at the top . |
| 10 | But either one of these and what we 've already put up you ca n't really call them positional isomers cos the basic carbon skeleton is different . |
| 11 | You ca n't really call it a positional isomer as such |
| 12 | I 've only been to Devon and Cornwall , you ca n't really call |
| 13 | Donna and I have become quite friendly , and if I call here to see her you ca n't really call me Nurse . ’ |
| 14 | You ca n't really call him a man . |
| 15 | We think back to the antihero of Notes from Underground lamenting that he ca n't even call himself a lazy man , and we think sideways to Svidrigailov : ‘ Believe me , if only I were something ; a landowner , say , or a father , a cavalry officer , a photographer , a journalist say — but I 'm nothing , I 've no speciality . ’ |