Example sentences of "i call [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I called you the Bony Lady . |
| 2 | ‘ She would n't tell me , but was very insistent that I call her the minute you got in . ’ |
| 3 | I call it the Citizen 's Chunder . |
| 4 | ‘ And behind the house — I call it the Castle — I keep animals , and grow my own vegetables . |
| 5 | It 's the kind of place best avoided after dark ; it makes me think of poor Moley , and Ratty 's warning , and that 's why I call it the Wild Wood . |
| 6 | It seems to have a mind of its own , and I call it The Great One . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nothing particularly wrong with that but that does show where they are coming from when they are looking into being with as I call it the so called traffic problems of St Albans . |
| 9 | Oh I call it the posh shop . |
| 10 | I call it the . |