Example sentences of "[pron] you call a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is still what you call a long shot ? ’ |
| 2 | That 's what you call a grounding , and it 's what makes him confident if he does get to meet Big Ron at Villa Park next season . |
| 3 | Languages generally have developed systems of address — what you call a person when you talk to them face to face — which reflect the salient social distinctions of the culture ( kin versus nonkin , intimate versus nonintimate , higher/lower status , to mention some very common ones ) . |
| 4 | What you call a free soul , that 's me ; free as the wind . ’ |
| 5 | It 's not what you call a rational act . |
| 6 | I mean to me the boss of of our bench , there was probably twenty people on the bench , to me the boss of that it was n't what you call a particularly good job but she 'd always worked at the and of course when when went on War work er th those that were still there they got the better jobs you see , to organize us that had n't been , worked there before . |
| 7 | You 'd be , oh perhaps twenty or thirty of us , in these fields and you used to do so A length , what you call a length . |
| 8 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 9 | Er you get what what you call a small blues during the week , but Friday , Saturday , Sunday and Monday , you can expect er large blues . |
| 10 | And Alina said , ‘ Is that what you call a welcome ? ’ |
| 11 | One of the most pedantic of the sub-editors was saying : ‘ You 're all looking for somebody with what you call a reason , but his thinking will be at variance with yours . ’ |
| 12 | There was Pat , he swept chimleys , er and then there used to be an old fellow come , he used to mend , mend dishes you ken , what you call a china faker . |
| 13 | I 'm what you call a Axminster handler |
| 14 | That was like er er what you call a linseed oil , they call is text that 's some animal 's erm oil I think out of the house and cos they used to , used to rub that in and you could them down lovely . |
| 15 | So that I married into what you call a railway family . |
| 16 | It was only water that was let into a confined space but we had a Sports Association which had a section for the swimming and er I way remember bought a couple of old single decker buses from somewhere , I do n't know where and he had them fitted out and rigged up at Stoke Bathing Place , especially for us to go there and change and w we did have quite a good strong section , we used to hold our , an annual what you call a regatta , or , no not a regatta but er in the St Matthew 's Swimming Baths a festival , a swimming festival a gala , yes |
| 17 | Well I did hear , I do n't know if it w if it 's true , that she was er what you call a lollipop lady . |
| 18 | He was n't er was n't what you call a good father at all , no , was n't a good provider . |
| 19 | This is what you call a Cosmic Mystery . |
| 20 | that 's what you call a family business , is n't it ? |
| 21 | It 's all sanded down again , then you put your first coat Now you use what you call a rubber which is consists of a piece of cotton wool You know you know , cotton wool |
| 22 | What you call a wake ? |
| 23 | All local agreements up and down the country which it counted to eighty odds were all scrubbed and there was what you call a national agreement established to cover the whole of Scotland which meant the man in the remotest part of Scotland got the same wages and conditions as in as the man in Edinburgh or Glasgow or any big city . |
| 24 | But on the whole they had er what you call a standing orders committee . |
| 25 | This is what you call a tee shirt . |
| 26 | Oh we always play that one was fi that one was what you call a sixty when you get . |
| 27 | What you call a cowboy with no money ? . |
| 28 | This was Easter time , this what you call an anniversary . |
| 29 | Is that what you call an arrangement ? |