Example sentences of "what i call " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems arise through what I call ‘ rural conveyancing ’ because years ago such conveyancing was n't done with the necessary attention to detail . ’ |
| 2 | What I call the ‘ auditory imagination ’ is the feeling for syllable and rhythm , penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling , invigorating every word ; sinking to the most primitive and forgotten , returning to the origin and bringing something back , seeking the beginning and the end . |
| 3 | That 's what I call looking after your punters . |
| 4 | I feel most comfortable in what I call my ‘ hang out ’ clothes : jeans , T-shirts , sloppy sweaters and so on . |
| 5 | That is what I call everyday listening . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's irresponsible , that 's what I call it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ His books are the product of a fictional imagination , they 're what I call ‘ involuntary fiction ’ . |
| 8 | What I call outline plants form the backbone of your garden . |
| 9 | This will give you access to what I call potentia , and potentia is non-reality . |
| 10 | He possesses what I call an ‘ art school mind ’ , which is well on the soggy side of the truly intellectual . |
| 11 | Now that 's what I call a programme . |
| 12 | David hardly paints for sale any more — it 's opera , camera , fax and camcord , which hardly helps me pay my rent , and Frank Stella , whose work I admire more than anyone 's , makes these enormous aluminium , what I call floor reliefs , that are very hard to sell . |
| 13 | And that 's what I call a real bargain : something that 's an improvement and saves you money . |
| 14 | During what I call the period of uneasy peace , 1983–84 , Mr Heinz expected all options to be examined and costed in detail . |
| 15 | You bury it in the earth and fertilize a tree — that 's what I call harmony with nature . |
| 16 | We face what I call the conservationist fallacy in much of our debate between animal welfare people and environmentalists . |
| 17 | I want to answer that by looking at what I call ‘ The Proper Purgatory . ’ |
| 18 | His blind spots tend to be Bartók and Stravinsky — ‘ especially when he is in what I call his ‘ wrong note ’ mode , like in the ‘ Pulcinella ’ Gavotte where he is deliberately a bar out with his ‘ Alberti bass ’ . |
| 19 | Both Previn and Slatkin are what I call ‘ session-wise ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Now that 's what I call a real bird's-eye view ! ’ she exclaimed as she landed , beaming with delight . |
| 21 | I also have some other tablets , smaller ones , which I have to take if I get a pain across the chest and it persists … what I call a chuntering thing . |
| 22 | Now that 's what I call canvassing ! |
| 23 | The issues we are facing in the present crisis of faith touch on what I call the Square One Principle . |
| 24 | ( Now that 's what I call after sales service ! — Ed . ) |
| 25 | The best time for this ‘ homework ’ to be done is in what I call the twilight time at night — that period when he is in bed and drowsy but not yet asleep . |
| 26 | Now that 's what I call outrageous . |
| 27 | ‘ what I call dressing up and what other people call dressing up are two different things ’ |
| 28 | But what I call dressing up and what other people calling dressing up are probably two different things . |
| 29 | ‘ Now that , ’ said Angalo , ‘ is what I call planning . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Now , this is what I call proper flying , ’ said Angalo , happily . |