Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] to call " in BNC.
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| 1 | That little devil Billy Quirk , Preston 's Auntie Ethel used to call him . |
| 2 | Constanza and Simon used to call her Miss Mouse because she was so meek and mild and everything Simon did was perfect . |
| 3 | Typically , Oliver said that after the marriage Gill ought to call herself Mrs Gillian Wyatt-or-Hughes , that is if she wanted to be logical and grammatical and commonsensical and diplomatic and cumbersome . |
| 4 | Oh , I 'm an exotic to them — being a bit of a ‘ musty ’ , as Feeny used to call it , is n't anything to deny here in Paris . |
| 5 | He told how she and Garry used to call round to his house ever Sunday for lunch . |
| 6 | W. S. The Black Maria used to call at different stations at two in the morning and take the prisoners from there to Cheapside . |
| 7 | Tomorrow this five-time Walker Cup player gets his first glimpse of what local boy Fred Daly used to call ‘ the greatest links course of them all . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Jack used to call me into the office , ask me to sign three letters and then order me back out onto the training pitch because he knew that was my second home . ’ |
| 9 | Sammy used to call those engine fires instead of fire engines ! |
| 10 | And partly , on a more mundane level , the puzzle of how a murder could have been committed in what John Dickson Carr used to call a hermetically sealed chamber " is perhaps the most intriguing one in the detection writer 's whole bag of tricks . |
| 11 | Mr Brezhnev was infuriated when Ceausescu used to call for lower Warsaw Pact defence budgets , or established diplomatic relations with Israel , or restored party-to-party relations with China 's Communist party . |