Example sentences of "[verb] they call [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As Josephus says : ‘ They also do not value dying any kind of death , nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends , nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord … ’ |
2 | Er but of course there was no newspapers er printed at all then , and I 've got , there was a Churchill 's Paper , what did they call that ? |
3 | Well just corsets like that , and they 're fastened on the front with things that clicked in and then sometimes they would have a What they called a Oh what on earth did they call that ? |
4 | what did they call that man he er we used to have them at Pierhead as well . |
5 | What did they call that ? |
6 | What did they call each other ? |
7 | But if the project 's scientists — and the intellectual giants who ran Britain 's nuclear programme at the time — were n't all that sure about the measurements , why did they call large press conferences ( on 23 January , 1958 ) and flood the scientific press with detailed descriptions of the work ? |
8 | What do they call that place now ? |
9 | Yeah well , there was n't many shops there really dear , there were just the er fishmongers and greengrocers and the butchers and the , we used to have to go there to get , to queue up , you had to queue because there was no , not many shops to be there you see to serve you , it 's altered a lot now , there 's a lot more shops now and the doctors I used to have to queue right out the gate , the doctors a big long queue , there was only Dr surgery and then we had another doctor came that started down at erm the bottom of erm Harlow near where , where do they call that ? |
10 | What do they call that place ? |
11 | what do they call these mountain bikes ? |
12 | Like for instance the , er , what do they call those two ? |
13 | And I said , what do they call mature ? |