Example sentences of "[pron] they call a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one of Clarke 's sons with a turfe spade , which they call a peate iron , ( a very keen thing , ) struck Sir Edward 's man on the head and cloave out his brains . |
| 2 | You stand on the flat tray which they call a seat , take the weight on your arms on the sides of the cockpit and lower your feet into the nose cone . |
| 3 | I think you 're having what they call a nervous breakdown . |
| 4 | The first tournament I went to was at Tucson , Arizona , and I became what they call a ‘ parking-lot caddie ’ . |
| 5 | That does n't mean I started parking cars ; it 's what they call a caddie who waits in the club ‘ s parking lot for a bag . |
| 6 | ‘ Its what they call a ‘ wood rabbit ’ ; they eat a lot of wood , hence the sawdust' . |
| 7 | Neither will they cover , what they call a ‘ pre-condition ’ , that is , some illness or disability that existed before you took out the policy . |
| 8 | ‘ If this is what they call a good camp , think how the other poor bastards are suffering ’ |
| 9 | If Omarska was what they call a good camp , how are the poor bastards suffering in others ? |
| 10 | Erm , a couple of days ago , that 's what they call a surprise action |
| 11 | You must always buy what they call a carrier oil to help mix the oils . |
| 12 | " You 're what they call a litter bug . " |
| 13 | But if you did that the law does give you what they call a cooling off period . |
| 14 | And you used to have what they call a wick in it you know to light it and turn it down at night time and blow it out down the . |
| 15 | And of course the harness was what they call a harness , you know your buckles used to that over that and they were on . |
| 16 | And at that time nearly everybody had a bed with a mattress made of straw , and on top of this mattress , straw mattress they used to have what they call a tick , flock , flock tick . |
| 17 | My father used to have what they call a lead line that used to be a wire with a all marked with feet and fathoms on and sound and |
| 18 | That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler . |
| 19 | Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them . |
| 20 | Well , cos that 's to keep the level oven , you see , what they call a level oven crane , but the swan neck crane , that was one wire right from the barrel , right over to your load . |
| 21 | That 's right yes , yeah that bit that was just like what they call a swan neck , just like the swan and that was like that and so it kept me at load level , they were built by and some of the best cranes I 've ever known on the dock . |
| 22 | As Lisa 's face fell he continued , ‘ However , it would seem that poor , downtrodden Nigel has what they call a cast-iron alibi . |
| 23 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 24 | ‘ Here in Paris I 'm what they call a touche-à-tout ( Jack of all trades ) in literature , architecture and graphic design . |
| 25 | There 's er a collar and a what they call a which is a protein tube and then it has various spikes at the end that make it stick on to the outside of the bacteria . |
| 26 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 27 | That 's what they call er , la that 's what they call a Scotch circuit that lasts five weeks , four weeks . |
| 28 | Every product has what they call a life cycle , like a curve on a graph , rising up from development on to a plateau of maturity , until finally the product curve declines . |
| 29 | With the report erm , I have circulated copies to each of the group 's spokesmen , there was a couple of charts which indicate what the current situation is with er , spending as against S S A , and if the Home Office move to er , a fir what they call a fire station based S S A , what the position would be . |
| 30 | They 're doing what they call a job wise which is probably som something , they fill in a questionnaire which say whatever |