Example sentences of "[modal v] call [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our idea was that we should call ourselves The All Stars . |
| 2 | As it would only be a temporary name we felt it did n't really matter all that much what we should call ourselves |
| 3 | ‘ No , I think I 'll call myself a collector , an amateur . |
| 4 | ‘ But to myself I 'll call myself John , ’ he whispered to the mirror . |
| 5 | My mother 's name was Mottram — I 'll call myself Peter Mottram . |
| 6 | And if we do so we might call ourselves a nomadic and pastoral people of the transcendent ; and we shall be able to pasture our thoughts like the flocks of the nomads . |
| 7 | So Maurice could call himself a ‘ Christian socialist ’ , though his socialism , like that of his associate Charles Kingsley ( 1819 — 75 ) , was of a somewhat idealistic and utopian character . |
| 8 | Whether or not he could call himself a Chief Rabbit , he had no experience of this sort of thing . |
| 9 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |
| 10 | that is his name on paper , Geoffrey Thomas , he could call himself Geoffrey Thomas and write it as that could n't he now ? , if he wanted to what 's Mark 's middle name ? |
| 11 | Suzanne , I could call myself Suzanne : it was the name of one of the actresses Dad had brought to stay at our house for a week because there were bedbugs at her lodgings . |
| 12 | ‘ If Crosby , Stills and Nash or James Taylor came along now they 'd call themselves country just to get airplay , ’ observes London-based publicist Richard Wootton . |
| 13 | I should think that happens quite a lot , but I doubt they 'd call themselves The Hell Fire Club . |
| 14 | Now the person possessing the goods after the time limit , even if he holds the goods in bad faith , may call himself the rightful owner , while the original owner promptly loses all rights . |
| 15 | Two of the most successful television hosts are a man who used to call himself Joan Collins Fan Club and wears skirts that show his bare buttocks ( Julian Clary ) , and the other is a post-panto Dame ( Edna ) in diamante spectacles and aurora frocks . |
| 16 | And of course the firms used to call themselves you know , the I used to but direct , not from the wholesaler . |
| 17 | Remember back a few issues ( UX No 363 ) when Gain Technology , the multimedia start-up that used to call itself Cayenne Systems , was talking about giving the IBM/Apple joint venture a run for its money and persuading IBM to adopt its technology ? |
| 18 | Typically , Oliver said that after the marriage Gill ought to call herself Mrs Gillian Wyatt-or-Hughes , that is if she wanted to be logical and grammatical and commonsensical and diplomatic and cumbersome . |
| 19 | ‘ I had n't any idea you would call yourself a humanist . ’ |
| 20 | Into sales from being what I would call an artisan and er I do n't know what you would call yourself , but somebody who does things erm er on a er manual stroke artisan type work , over to sales . |
| 21 | Henceforth , the many thousands of Arabs who fled — like the few thousand who stayed and like the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the West Bank that would shortly be annexed by Jordan — would call themselves Palestinians . |
| 22 | But the sociologist of religion is interested in far more complicated questions than merely who would call themselves Methodist , Muslim or Mormon — or the proportion of each faith that attends a place of worship each day or week or month , or commits suicide in a particular year . |
| 23 | The United Kingdom has been spared so far , but while the majority of the population are religiously inactive in terms of church-going , most of them would call themselves Christians , and their spiritual beliefs have been formed by Christian teaching . |
| 24 | erm now what then is the position what is the nature of the criticism or the claims being made by the group of palaeontologists whom I 'm going to refer to , for reasons that will become apparent , as the punctuations — because I mean they would call themselves punctuations . |
| 25 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |
| 26 | You can call yourself anything you want . ’ |
| 27 | When you know you have located a one pound coin before you dig it up , you can call yourself an expert detectorist . |
| 28 | Then you can call yourself a scientist . |
| 29 | I think the problem with feminism is that a lot of people think that somehow you have to understand an awful lot of things , you have to read a lot of books , and you 've got to understand a whole lot of different theories , before you can call yourself a feminist . |
| 30 | Before you can call yourself a player ? |