Example sentences of "[pron] call a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will I call a cab , Ma ? ’ |
| 2 | In September 1983 I called a conference on pensions at the DHSS headquarters . |
| 3 | The day was still dank and moist when I emerged , but I called a taxi from the rank outside , and asked to be taken to the ruins of Holford House , once the home of Mr Harvey-Beaumont . |
| 4 | Still reflecting on buns , my favourite food , I called a taxi and in lordly tones asked to be taken to Lansdowne Road , home of Jazz News magazine . |
| 5 | ‘ I called a taxi and went home and passed the accident on the way , but I did n't realise it was the one he meant . |
| 6 | This became tiring , so I called a halt and suggested that Eddy , who was taller than I , should be the next horse — or did we use the word ‘ donkey ’ ? |
| 7 | To prevent her flying off I used what I called a ‘ straight creance , . |
| 8 | Well I called a meeting but I did n't think I advertised it well enough because there was a lot of interest and then I think we held it at the wrong time as well did n't we , |
| 9 | ‘ It 's OK , I called a cab . |
| 10 | I called a taxi . |
| 11 | But I called a pal of mine in St Helier who works on the local rag and he reckons your man 's at home . ’ |
| 12 | When she got the blade of the shove between her teeth and began to worry it I called a halt . |
| 13 | I think I called a warring , but Ward ignored it . |
| 14 | ‘ They have n't said officially , ’ Tracey said , ‘ but I called a mate of mine at the Yard as soon as I heard . |
| 15 | Now that 's what I call a programme . |
| 16 | And that 's what I call a real bargain : something that 's an improvement and saves you money . |
| 17 | ‘ Now that 's what I call a real bird's-eye view ! ’ she exclaimed as she landed , beaming with delight . |
| 18 | I also have some other tablets , smaller ones , which I have to take if I get a pain across the chest and it persists … what I call a chuntering thing . |
| 19 | Losing Betty Boo and getting The Sultans Of Ping FC is not what I call a good deal . |
| 20 | Now that 's what I call a back-pack ! |
| 21 | Steve — ‘ Now that 's what I call a bogey ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Black people in America and internationally within the last 500 years have been put under what I call a policed state , ’ comments Singleton . |
| 23 | Frithrah , you 're what I call a Chief Rabbit ! " |
| 24 | " I tell you , he 's what I call a Chief Rabbit . |
| 25 | " There 's something I call a blue-wing , " said Emily , boldly , pleased to be joining in a conversation in which she was proud to see John taking such an active part , " and my uncle Tom calls it a blue-back . " |
| 26 | Also now I tend , as you 've probably come to realise I 've tended to include specific types of bonding arrangements as a functional group for example , I call a carbon carbon double bond , I call that a functional group for the simple reason that that arrangement of bonds dictates the principle properties of those compounds and in that context I 'm then using the word group a bit more liberally instead of saying it 's a group of atoms which dictate the properties I 'll say it 's a group of atoms or it 's a special grouping of electrons , which dictate the properties . |
| 27 | And he wanted to make similar remarks about our initial belief that though we use the same language and agree on the words with which to describe the colours of the objects around us , still we might for all we know see the objects completely differently ; an object that causes in me what I call a sensation of red may cause in you what I would call a sensation of blue , though we can never know this since we will continue to agree on what to say and on how to act in our differently coloured environments ( we will all stop at a red traffic light , for instance ) . |
| 28 | Being a corporate entrepreneur , what I call a ‘ change master , ’ is much more challenging and fun than being a nonentrepreneur . |
| 29 | The device which I call a Wurly costs no more than a standard pump to run . |
| 30 | that in my view is er what I call a being a glutton for work . |