Example sentences of "[noun sg] to call [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 2 | I 'll get your sentry room to call me a taxi . ’ |
| 3 | It is not hyperbole to call it a paralysis of public choice . " |
| 4 | Furthermore , I do not see that fastening a label from ancient philosophy upon Wordsworth — in this case to call him a ‘ Pantheist ’ — is particularly helpful ; we are simply consigning him to a museum of dead ideas . |
| 5 | As for Brian Redhead , a BBC radio presenter who had the temerity to call him a conspiracy , ‘ His failure to apologise meant that he never got another interview with Mrs Thatcher as prime minister . ’ |
| 6 | It took 30 minutes of argument , a great deal of soothing of apparently hurt professional pride , and not a little money to persuade Chela that it was time to call it a night , alone . |
| 7 | VIZ magazine creator Chris Donald is right when he says it might be time to call it a day . |
| 8 | THE party 's over , it 's time to call it a day — but Catherine Zeta Jones was having such a perfick time she just did n't notice . |
| 9 | ‘ Pleasant though this is , I think it 's time to call it a night , ’ he announced , getting to his feet . |