Example sentences of "[vb pp] to call [pers pn] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Agreed to call it a night . |
| 6 | He 's my oldest friend , so I 'm allowed to call him a great pedant . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Two years and two back operations later he has been forced to call it a day . |
| 9 | But surgeons were forced to call it a day because they could n't find the right tools for the job . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |