Example sentences of "[vb past] to call it a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 2 | John and Maureen decided to call it a day . |
| 3 | Nothing much doing at the pond , they had set the rods up and were wandering around , looking for frogs and newts , then they returned to their rods ; nothing stirred , so around 10pm they decided to call it a day . |
| 4 | He decided to call it a day after doctors told him he had lost the other testicle . |
| 5 | Although we broke even , we could not pay our wages and decided to call it a day ’ . |
| 6 | She decided to call it a day . |
| 7 | By 1 p.m. we had another forty-five sheep on deck and decided to call it a day . |
| 8 | For health reasons , 69-year-old decided to call it a day on March 19 after working for five years in the semi-moist processing section . |
| 9 | The Indians ran out of arrows — they decided to call it a day |
| 10 | So he agreed to call it a day . |
| 11 | Mandy Yachad and Mark Rushmere made half centuries and when both sides agreed to call it a day the Invitation XI had reached 129–1 . |
| 12 | The mellow stone of the edifice — she hesitated to call it a house — was modelled into an elaborate copy of a French château , complete with round , steepled towers at the corners and an intricate garden laid out in the foreground … |
| 13 | She hesitated to call it a party , but the hostess thought it a good opporotunity to invite round like-minded friends . |
| 14 | Martina set to call it a day |