Example sentences of "[adv] call [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon , Mr Charles to his shame and regret had allowed himself to become inebriated in the company of two fellow guests — gentlemen I shall merely call Mr Smith and Mr Jones since they are likely to be still remembered in certain circles . |
| 2 | Most modern philosophers would say it was nonsense to say that cruelty was cruel , you can only call people cruel , particular things . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd better call Larry in and get away from here , quick , ’ she heard Butch say . |
| 4 | This one you would just call pentate . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think you could ever call Ken a friend . |
| 6 | It was our guess that in the face of this assertion , and while he could still call George Brown , Radcliffe would not want to discount Gardiner 's evidence by calling another Labour witness . |
| 7 | August is the launch month for HarperCollins paperbacks — or , to be more precise , August is the month when Fontana and Grafton cease to exist , amalgamating under the one imprint , which I shall refer to as HCP and in my mind will always call Collins . |
| 8 | Why do bullies always call people sonny ? |
| 9 | ‘ I would hardly call sailing ‘ dicing with death ’ . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd hardly call Erith Marsh the beau monde , Mother . ’ |
| 11 | ’ You 'd probably call Gharr ’ . |
| 12 | He had never invited anyone to dinner at the house , for the simple reason that they never had anything he could honestly call dinner . |
| 13 | ‘ We are looking at what you might loosely call superloos . |
| 14 | At the finish of the contest we can just about call Jacob the victor . |
| 15 | That is they would really be the beginnings of what we would now call travelogues . |
| 16 | Early English pop was riddled with homosexuality and that sensibility which we would now call camp — partly this was due to homosexual familiarity with those areas of human activity which were now being exploited , and partly to the early music industry 's seedy beginnings on the fringes of established showbusiness . |
| 17 | The USSR and the People 's Republic of China had recognised what we may now call North Vietnam since 1950 . |
| 18 | This exodus was mainly caused by the anti-Communist attitude of their priests : and most of all by the new premier of what we may now call South Vietnam , Ngo Dinh Diem . |
| 19 | So n can I now call motion three nine four , representation at Labour and T U C conferences , G M B Scotland to move . |
| 20 | I would really call spade |
| 21 | Only about a third of them has to be what you 'd really call meat , and quite a lot of them had an enormous amount of fat in them . |
| 22 | ‘ Only marijuana , not what you 'd really call drugs . |
| 23 | He should hide such thoughts for they could well call Alexander back from Hell to exact his vengeance . |
| 24 | There is in fact a detailed expression of Plan B , which we may as well call Plan C. It was put out earlier this week as a joint reconstruction programme for LA by the Bloods and Crips , the LA gangs whose truce in fact began before the riots began . |
| 25 | What a less law-abiding , trusting soul might well call harassment if they were feeling uncharitable ? ’ |
| 26 | A call from the public will first bring out the police , who may then call Hereford , one of three such bases covering England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 27 | Now , the C E C have got various different positions on , on all these motions , so I 'll then call John to put the C E C position on those motions at the end of the debate . |
| 28 | His confidence should be OK because Olsen must think highly of him to actually call Wilko about him . |
| 29 | George : ‘ And they 'd never call women that , so their argument about a man must be wrong . |