Example sentences of "[adv] call [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | While other newspapers were wrongly calling it a second honeymoon , TODAY revealed that virtually the only time the couple acknowledged each other was when Diana intercepted a phone call from Charles to Mrs Parker-Bowles and a screaming row erupted . |
2 | Amanda just called you a super piss head ! |
3 | Building societies and banks have finally abandoned their secrecy and pretence over their ‘ inspection ’ and do not call it a structural survey any more . |
4 | Medicine is n't definite at all ; I just call it a positive subject — you always get an answer . |
5 | Mike had once called her a natural non-drinker , one who enjoyed neither the taste nor the effect . |
6 | And the same thing with Zeppelin — no-one ever called them a heavy metal band . |
7 | The high-relief figure — one could hardly call it a three-dimensional effigy — is placed on a plain black ledger lying on the floor , and appears as a body rising vertically from the grave . |
8 | You need to restrict input so that , so that they usually call them a forward function . |
9 | Sam spoke up : ‘ I 'm Mr Caplan , Ginger , and if you ever call me a dirty name again I 'll sweep the street with your guts . ’ |
10 | You ca n't really call it a positional isomer as such |
11 | Yet this season , he 's played all but two matches , and since the ‘ 5 man defence ’ appeared when Batty got injured , the reviews I 've read have even called him a Batty replacement , and given him a good write-up . |
12 | I went along with this , I even called him a wild buffalo of the American prairie ; but perhaps he was really just a parrot . |
13 | " I mean , I did n't call him a black bastard or anything ? " |
14 | He was only getting him little gigs here and there and you would n't call him a dynamic person . |
15 | ‘ Do n't call me a fucking dumbo . ’ |
16 | You ca n't call it a National Anthem , because it covers the the twelve or more states of the European Union , as it is now , and do you know what that is , the the Anthem for the European Union . |
17 | Actually he did n't call it a third round , since he did n't solicit new entries but used the same 63 as for Round 2 . |
18 | I did n't call you a stupid bastard , did I ? ’ he yelled in exasperation . |
19 | In she comes for her pension , takes it without a by-your-leave then calls me a bloody wog and tells me to go home to where I come from . ’ |
20 | You may indeed call it a temperamental difference , but I venture we are talking about something rather more . |
21 | ‘ Oh , Bully , ’ cried Angela happily , holding the alsatian 's great head between her hands and putting her face close to his , ‘ I 'll never call you a bad dog again . |