Example sentences of "i call [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I fly out from the nest over the moors to its great and awesome cliff and gyre on the winds out over the sea then can I call myself a Wrath eagle . ’ |
| 2 | there in your then do I call it a toupee or a wig or |
| 3 | ( ‘ Would you believe me if I called myself a Puritan ? |
| 4 | ‘ He called me a name and I called him a name , ’ said Ditka . |
| 5 | Recently I 'd been punched and kicked to the ground by a teacher because I called him a queer . |
| 6 | I was so angry with him , I called him a jerk in the street , and worse than that , and I told my mum about it . |
| 7 | I called him an idiot . |
| 8 | I called her a slut . |
| 9 | Six fish later , I called it a day ; thanked the good Lord for his kindness , strapped the creel to the back of my motor bike , and roared triumphantly home . |
| 10 | It 's time I called it a day . |
| 11 | Here ref , what would you do if I called you a plonker ? |
| 12 | I call them a beach bag , but it 's not . |
| 13 | he is , I call him a slug |
| 14 | ‘ She would n't tell me , but was very insistent that I call her the minute you got in . ’ |
| 15 | And I call myself a businessman ! |
| 16 | " But I call you a whore ! " |
| 17 | So that 's er I mean you probably know we do , I do a talk erm I call it a story rather than a talk , and I say I hope it 's interesting as a story . |
| 18 | The doctor calls it a panic attack , I call it a trip down memory lane for big bro . |
| 19 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 20 | I call it de Ice Age , Death or Hell , |
| 21 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 22 | I call it the Citizen 's Chunder . |
| 23 | ‘ And behind the house — I call it the Castle — I keep animals , and grow my own vegetables . |
| 24 | I call it an office , but it 's also an apartment . |
| 25 | He was shaking me calling me a slut and a whore and saying they were n't his kids everything , I do n't know , I could n't breathe — he were choking me — ’ |