Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] call [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government are always making predictions , and in that sense the Chancellor may be described as the Mother Shipton — perhaps I should call him the Brother Shipton — of economics . |
| 2 | ‘ Okay , ’ said Bob affable , from now on I 'll call you the old tart . ’ |
| 3 | It has become apparent on some of the issues , some of the comments that we made that was if I could call it the you 'll know what we 're talking about and I do n't if we are talking about the there was there was a point somewhere where talked about ing an increase or short of journey time along the ring road and this has been taken as I understand to be that we are setting out an increase of speed er traffic on the sections of road to a junction and that 's totally in force and it was either . |
| 4 | I used to call it the spook walk . |
| 5 | I used to call it the back of actually . |
| 6 | I would call it the instinct for survival rather than for selfishness . |
| 7 | ‘ I shall call you the next time we are free , and we will do the rest , Yes ? ’ |
| 8 | I shall call it the normal justification thesis . |
| 9 | Since it has this connection with thoughts I shall call it the epistemic or cognitive appearance . |
| 10 | I shall call it the fact-presupposing explanation . |
| 11 | I will call it the principle of comprehensive ( political ) neutrality to distinguish it from the second principle which will be called the principle of narrow ( political ) neutrality . |
| 12 | He took care of the nation 's finances , Aunt Harriet had said , you might call him the Keeper of the Purse . |
| 13 | Now , erm on the subject of of the family , it 's worth mentioning another erm sort of debate that goes on within the subject of child sex abuse , the business of I suppose you might call it the business of responsibility . |
| 14 | But er I do n't really remember erm people going out to work much ex except , I suppose you 'd call them the lower classes , or not really the working classes because er , but the lower classes they would take in washing . |
| 15 | Well , you need n't call it wages for housework , you could call it the state paying for childcare at home , could n't you ? |
| 16 | You could call it the Eureka factor . |
| 17 | ‘ I think you could call it the metaphorical baked meats for our secretary . |
| 18 | He gave a cool laugh , drawled , ‘ I guess you could call it the madonna-whore complex . ’ |
| 19 | They said that in a political situation , if you had one side you could call it the thesis , say capitalism was the thesis and communism was the other side and that was the antithesis and that these two would one another and it was only when they came together and got their good points both of them adopted , that one was really going to get a satisfactory solution . |
| 20 | Our idea was that we should call ourselves The All Stars . |
| 21 | What we have here is one jet-black copy of a Lennon-style Rickenbacker 325 ( dubbed the RK-32B , ho ho ) and one red sunburst-finished copy of Townshend 's fave battleaxe the 330 , the Encore RK-33R ( I think we 'll call them the red one and the black one ) . |
| 22 | After World War two , a lot of people hoped that the we 'll call them the less agreeable characteristics of the German mind , would be changed by the traumatic experiences of the second total defeat in twenty years , physical destruction , national humiliation , embarrassment at having been made the collaborators of nazism and so on . |
| 23 | And we 'll call it the and we 'd have said and You find you find the value of the function , for a particular number , a particular input , a particular value of X. |
| 24 | You can process the musical history of the Eighties into any format you like-you could call it the decade of Dance , or of Conscience Rock , or of World Music . |
| 25 | We used to call him the Butcher . ’ |
| 26 | Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there . |
| 27 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 28 | Now Saturday night in Street , we used to call it the waits , Street waits , every Saturday night . |
| 29 | ‘ We used to call it the Bitching Hour . |
| 30 | Oh yes at one time erm after the New Town got well started , after The Stow was built got to the , goes up to The Stow and be beyond er , well it 's just , going on into erm , er , towards the swimming bath , it was n't up there , swimming bath , erm and we used to call it the Shady Shop in , in adverts and er we used to have a lot of people used to come down because there was only The Stow then and er |