Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] call [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Josephus says : ‘ They also do not value dying any kind of death , nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends , nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ What d' you call that disorganised scramble ? |
| 3 | ‘ Lord save us , d' you call that old ? |
| 4 | " What d' you call that , Stephen ? " |
| 5 | I forgot er I have n't watched the television at all and I forgot to record what d' you call that thing ? with the devil in it ? |
| 6 | ‘ What d' you call this poncin' pap then ? ’ he raged , ‘ I ca n't eat this muck . ’ |
| 7 | Let us call this acquisition . |
| 8 | Let us call this learning , as distinct from acquisition . |
| 9 | Let us call this the structural lacuna of the intentional scenario . |
| 10 | Let us call this the MONIST view . |
| 11 | For the moment , let us call this developmental process ‘ learning ’ ( although , in Chapter 1 l , I shall show that there are problems in using the term ) . |
| 12 | Let us call this one dealion , the unit of improbability . |
| 13 | Consider honorifics , most simply exemplified by the polite singular pronoun of address in European languages ( like vous vs. tu in French — let us call this the V vs. the T pronoun ) . |
| 14 | However this wo n't quite do either — one can say : ( 84 ) When I 'm in the office , you can come to see me where come glosses as " movement towards the location of the speaker at the time of some other specified event " ( let us call this time reference time ) . |
| 15 | Let us call these two quantities a and a' respectively , then . |
| 16 | Let us call these inferences that arise from observing the maxims standard implicatures ( the term is not Grice 's , although he introduces the term generalized implicature for a subset of these implicatures which do not require particular contextual conditions in order to be inferred ) . |
| 17 | Now these , why do I call these special people , for the first thing we 're just coming out of a recession they s |
| 18 | PLAYER : Do you call that an ending ? — with practically everyone on his feet ? |
| 19 | What do you call that ? |
| 20 | The crowd began to disperse but the dancing continued — do you call that dancing Neil ? |
| 21 | But he 's got all books and aye all the , what do you call that other one ? |
| 22 | And erm another one from er erm oh what do you call that place ? |
| 23 | ‘ Then what do you call that little number ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Do you call that a kiss ? ’ she said . |
| 25 | I said , ‘ What kind of gun do you call that ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ What do you call that ? ’ |
| 27 | So she watched television and erm Princess Diana erm said something shocking at lunchtime at a luncheon party or lunch party and erm maybe just erm ten days before that Princess Diana 's announcement we were told by the Register Teacher that we will have an assignment of in February and we will compare some newspapers articles and maybe she did n't explain very erm specifically but she just gave us erm the brief information about er register assignment in February and she told us that we should er we should collect some newspapers about the same title was about the same topic and ho we should compare how each newspaper treated , treats the er news or what do you call that ? |
| 28 | Erm , what do you call that ? |
| 29 | Now what do you call that ? |
| 30 | Well I was looking at I I was looking at the what do you call that now ? |