Example sentences of "[vb pp] to call [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His well-being is of even higher importance to Scotland now that Peter Dods , such an admirable understudy with 23 caps , had decided to call it a day . |
| 2 | ‘ The director 's finally decided to call it a day , ’ he said . |
| 3 | They had decided to call it a day , that was all . |
| 4 | Piper had started using Red Indian names for its aircraft and when it inherited the ‘ poor man 's Dakota ’ from Stinson the double fin and rudder layout was replaced with a single one and it was decided to call it the Apache . |
| 5 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 6 | A desperate mix of pride and masochism would have kept me wallowing around until dark , but I was forcefully persuaded to call it a day . |
| 7 | Agreed to call it a night . |
| 8 | He 's my oldest friend , so I 'm allowed to call him a great pedant . |
| 9 | Though he rejoined the race a few minutes later , Albers , who won the opening round of the series at Donington , was forced to call it a day four laps later . |
| 10 | Two years and two back operations later he has been forced to call it a day . |
| 11 | But surgeons were forced to call it a day because they could n't find the right tools for the job . |
| 12 | Those who have seen the San Francisco 49ers ' Jerry Rice perform over the past eight years have been tempted to call him the most dangerous wide receiver in NFL history . |
| 13 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 14 | Then Wyllie just kept thumping the ball downfield and soon time ran out on Musselburgh , whose only crumb of comfort is that their coach , Raymond Clark , who had planned to call it a day , is now likely to stay on next season . |
| 15 | 1 have chosen to call them the Northern and Southern Bands ( Map 3.1 ) . |
| 16 | Conference Group has chosen to call itself the West Belfast Economic Forum . |