Example sentences of "[Wh det] you could call " in BNC.
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| 1 | In town it requires vast amounts of arm-flailing lock but is never what you could call light . |
| 2 | The Smiths were prime movers in what you could call the depoliticization of personal life , after punk 's initial demystification . |
| 3 | No , I 'm afraid I 've never really had what you could call a boyfriend , someone to come calling to take me out . |
| 4 | None of the fish in any of his tanks are what you could call unusual — Corydoras , Barbs , Livebearers , a couple of splendid wild Angels , and a Red Tailed Black Shark make up the majority of the stock . |
| 5 | Masklin crept back through the grass to the nomes ' camp , if that 's what you could call a tiny dry space under a scrap of thrown-away plastic . |
| 6 | ‘ The Swiss railway timetable is a masterpiece of typographical design , if not what you could call a rattling good read . |
| 7 | Quite apart from my visitors and my new friends , some of whom whisk me away to stay for the weekend , there are what you could call my ‘ professional engagements ’ . |
| 8 | Well , er the reason was erm technique and science and they 'd , they all the firms or who was in business had to make locks their own way , you know what I mean and use the best facilities they could get hold of , but science and progress came into being and they cou they made what you could call locks erm repetition . |
| 9 | So capitalism has to export it over its boundary and that 's one of the company , what you could call it period , for example , erm |
| 10 | How any reparation could be made , and talking about reparation , this business over absent fathers , er , has just killed that idea of us getting more and more in that kind of way , but I 'm sure there are many people , and I 'm not thinking about those who have been , committed an act of violence , and said , well they might do it again , but say , I 'm pretty sure people who have been committed in effect of what you could call civil crimes , that is putting their hand in the drawer , should never be in prison . |