Example sentences of "call it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so that 's why her mum and dad called it Charmwood cos it 's where they did their courting . |
| 2 | Some researchers , such as Ernest Hartmann , even called it D sleep ( for dreaming ) to distinguish it from non-dreaming slow wave sleep . |
| 3 | I could have called it k instead , but for reasons that become apparent in a moment we will be interested in the size of the square root of the number , so I have used |
| 4 | Executives amongst themselves called it Deller Page and Rip-off . |
| 5 | Well , they 'd called it embezzlement but it was only taking what was his by right . |
| 6 | She had called it maturity , this pleasantness . |
| 7 | Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni . |
| 8 | Stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni . |
| 9 | Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni |
| 10 | What have you called it Coco for ? |
| 11 | It told how an empire of six hundred miles wide and nearly three thousand miles long , so big the Incas called it Tahuantinsuyo , the Four Quarters of the Earth , had been engaged in a fratricidal war of succession when its miserable future was planned by two uneducated adventurers , Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro , and by a priest , Father Hernando de Luque . |
| 12 | The English called it Culloden , after the adjacent house and park . |
| 13 | I have called it inductivist because it is based on inductive reasoning , as will be explained shortly . |
| 14 | Diessenhofen ( the Romans called it Gunodorum ) has a fine old clock tower , under which the road from Schaffhausen to Konstanz passes , then Stein-am-Rhein comes into view on the left bank . |
| 15 | Highly imaginative as they were , all three gentlemen called it Sauce for Boiled Lobster . |
| 16 | called it detail , he called it trivial |
| 17 | He was about thirty years as as erm secretary of the Glen Ayloch gathering and somebody made up a pipe tune and called it Graham 's Tune . |
| 18 | I 've called it R P to distinguish it from Spearman 's which we 're gon na do next week , but you can convert the value of R to a T score and if you 've got a T score you can look it up in T tables to work out whether it 's significant . |
| 19 | I 'm not calling it Sarah |
| 20 | In large sections of Punjab they extort money ( calling it taxation ) , hold courts , decree what local newspapers should print and even decide what dress schoolchildren should wear . |
| 21 | Eventually the name was transferred , not least because the Spanish were calling it pina . |
| 22 | The whole of Britain … seems to have caught it … the symptoms … you hear a racing car at full throttle in the ears … you go misty eyed at the sight of union jacks waving in the wind and then you start talking … rambling about red five … its a new disease … they 're calling it Mansell Mania … |
| 23 | Antoine Müller became the widow 's chef de caves , or chief cellarer between 1810 and 1822 , although in March of 1822 he resigned from his position and was able to set up his own Champagne establishment , calling it Müller-Ruinart . |
| 24 | ‘ Ah — the producer 's calling it Mondo Desire . ’ |
| 25 | Johnson also read a little — in his room he had works by his erstwhile host Lord Monboddo , and Laurence Sterne 's Sermons of Mr Yorick ( interestingly , Boswell does not give the full title , merely calling it Sermons , a deference perhaps to the scandal the book had caused when it appeared in 1760 ) . |
| 26 | ( 1981 ) , for instance , revalue women 's lack of egotism , which has strongly negative implications in psychology , by calling it modesty . |
| 27 | Last year they were calling it Howards ' Way with horses , this year they 've been calling it Howards ' Way without boats . |
| 28 | Last year they were calling it Howards ' Way with horses , this year they 've been calling it Howards ' Way without boats . |
| 29 | Commodore 's extraordinary name for the system was determined by their concern to avoid any potential trademark problems by actually calling it CDTV , the name they favoured and by which the system is now universally known . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's a new expression for YT that trainees are using this year — they 're calling it Slave Training , ’ said Mr Hanson . |