Example sentences of "[modal v] n't call [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What about your lean old arse — I could n't call it a bum in all conscience — grinding away on the saddle of your bike ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I would n't call her a bitch . ’ |
| 3 | Old friends from many years ago they probably would n't call me a friend but I am saying that er very er |
| 4 | I did this top bottom up so that my dad would n't call me a tart as I walked out the house and I forgot to undo it again ! |
| 5 | I would , I would n't call you a pig at all . |
| 6 | But it was true , what Jim said , in business you ca n't stand still , you go up or you go down , you ca n't just sit comfortably in your own 1972 executive four-bedroomed plate-glass-windowed centrally heated wall-to-wall-carpeted gadget-equipped house , with your Rover and your wife 's Mini in the two-car garage , and your pot plants in your loggia , and your electric lawn mower in the shed : you ca n't sit still and enjoy it , you ca n't call it a day and call a halt when you own it all and do n't owe anyone a penny , you have to go on and on , relentlessly onwards , juggling with larger and larger sums , owing more , paying out more , until finally perhaps the whole thing comes tumbling round your head like a pack of cards . |
| 7 | Well , you ca n't call it a crime , can you , looking the other way in a cafe when somebody 's nicking your vehicle from a lay-by ? ’ |
| 8 | You ca n't call it the league cup can you ? |
| 9 | The first one relates to the child who broke into my car , I wo n't call him a child he 's a bloody toerag as far as I 'm concerned , who broke into my car has been given a caution , a bloody caution . |
| 10 | ‘ Mister , if you return from where I 'm sendin' you , ’ he said grimly , ‘ they wo n't call you a Prophet . |
| 11 | So you 're dad wo n't call you a tart ! |