Example sentences of "we call [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it started to snow , say at four o'clock , we would have what we called snowmen — and we would knock them up and they would come running to get a day 's work in the snow . |
| 2 | We called COPPES " another barricade for the revolution " . |
| 3 | We called friends in Australia and amazingly , they found a cylinder we could rent and shipped it to Darwin . |
| 4 | Well when the hay was dry , th it was raked up it was all er When it was cut it was lying in what we called swathes , you see ? |
| 5 | It had to be , he had to do something or they would never have er got In other ways in was a lenient school because as the years went by it was , a register was called , a teacher er opened a book and we called numbers . |
| 6 | you see coal used to lie in in er er different slines what we called slines white slines and yo you had to get your coal line what we call half and half running in half and half . |
| 7 | these skivvies , in , what we called skivvies in those days , at these big houses up round a about the village . |
| 8 | Er all the clothing you had was provided by yourself , boiler suits , boots er there there was no protective clothing at all , there were no protection for your hearing , er there was no what we called leathers as such for er to save you from getting burned with scales off of the rivets , with burning machines etcetera , there were n't there was absolutely no er protective clothing at all , unless you happened to be able to buy it yourself somewhere . |
| 9 | On the roads towards Tours spectators along the roadside , watching television or replaying the action on video , will have the vision of the escapes , the pure flights from the peloton we call breakaways . |
| 10 | Well , you could do , if , particularly if you had one of our meters , but what , what happens , as sound goes through the air it causes small pressure fluctuations , and our meter measures the size of these , and it gives a reading on a scale in units which we call decibels . |
| 11 | Our victims we call stiffs and slabs and sides — and fuck-ups , and organ-donors . |
| 12 | What can we learn from twenty prehistoric burial chambers , which we call cists , and which have been uncovered up to now ? |
| 13 | Similarly , a bat perceives the position of an insect using what we call echoes . |
| 14 | So is the innovation I mean there are other knitting needles but there is still this type of what we call burns needles being used today . |
| 15 | We have erm a special research unit , which we call Micro-processors , Instrumentation and Control . |
| 16 | These creatures may be just human beings , or just animals or a mixture of both , but which , in this instance , and ignoring for the purposes of this chapter those deviations which we call perversions , are not affected by any element of sexual attraction . |
| 17 | Ideas about what people should do , about what behaviour is ‘ proper ’ or ‘ fitting ’ , we call norms and values . |
| 18 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 19 | And the real test if you 're designing what we call formats in the United States — sometimes in Europe format means just shape and size — but the underlying design of a newspaper or magazine . |
| 20 | The argument from analogy with which we shall be concerned here admits that it is possible that the objects we call persons are , other than ourselves , mindless automata , but claims that we none the less have sufficient reason for supposing this not to be the case . |
| 21 | But they used to get the , the , the odd ones that used to come and gather s what we call hiplocks again that was the dirty wool off the sheath pin , sounds like that . |
| 22 | I think you will find that it owes it resiliency not to its form of organisation or administrative skills , but to the power of what we call beliefs and the appeal these beliefs have for its people . ’ |
| 23 | There are two factors , which we call genes . |
| 24 | One or two lived , even the top of on the other side of the road , houses are down now but , er , there was , there was three cot which we call cottages which er , much smaller than the others , but they were still very useful and nextdoor to there there used to be a , a chap named , oh nextdoor but two . |
| 25 | workshop and they would cover this board with woodcuttings like s what we call spills . |
| 26 | do n't actually make the sort of mess that , what we call gypsies , the tinkers , when they 're |
| 27 | But ice ages or no , millions of years of erosion will slowly flatten the planetary mineral heaps we call mountains . |
| 28 | Are the disordered visions we call hallucinations a result of blocking serotonin ? |
| 29 | There are several of those ancient fortified lake dwellings , which we call crannogs , most of them to be found in the northern half of the island , some of them in lochs well up into the hills . |
| 30 | Perhaps the most secure places were natural or man made islands in lochs , which we call crannogs . |