Example sentences of "call it that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd called it that all my life so why should they try to force me to change the way I speak my own language ? |
| 2 | Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it . |
| 3 | I am sure no-one will think that Professor Murray has called it that , but it is only fair to those who suffer from schizophrenia that the difference between schizophrenia and split personalities is pointed out . |
| 4 | It is not the first time that , for whatever reason , such a ‘ mistake ’ , if you can call it that , has been made with the best will in the world . |
| 5 | My problem , if you can call it that , at the time was that I thought I had all the natural talent in the world and did n't need to train . |
| 6 | Parker — his first name was Hugh , if his pals called him Shug or Shuggie — it was his first sore eye , his first fight , if you could call it that , since he was a child ; about six or seven , a girl had beat him up . |
| 7 | The altar , if you could call it that , was as a block of ice to him . |
| 8 | Its one wart , if you could call it that , is its oddball control layout . |
| 9 | Plenty was built by the Frasque , who did not call it that , or anything else , so far as I have been able to discover . |
| 10 | My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience . |
| 11 | West Yorkshire ( ‘ Greater Leeds , ’ as one citizen calls it , ‘ but I would n't dare call it that in Bradford or Sheffield ’ ) is the source and spiritual home of the thrift movement . |
| 12 | ‘ You might call it that , ’ I returned . |
| 13 | The main view , if you can call it that , consists of an overview of the rooms you have on your system . |
| 14 | And when my mother was baking in a huge ovenware basin , then she 'd have the the erm the flour and the the erm what do you call it that made it rise ? |
| 15 | Indeed the only real drawback , if you can call it that , is that people are continually coming up and congratulating us on our victory over England . ’ |
| 16 | ’ Im responsible for themusic if you can call it that ’ |
| 17 | The explanation , if you can call it that , gives the flavour of the enterprise . |
| 18 | Now what we 're plotting up here is D S by D T well we do n't call it that it 's a bit confusing call it velocity . |
| 19 | Mungo was about to ask him why he called it that , but hesitated , certain that either Vic or Emily , or both , would think him over-inquisitive . |
| 20 | ‘ Only that the house agents called it that when they advertised it . |
| 21 | Jarvis Stringer called it that , as he had done since he was a small boy . |
| 22 | The Nazis called it that because we had radio operators we code-named musicians . |
| 23 | It was evidence of Karajan 's genius or magic or whatever we care to call it that he took enormous pains with these simple chords in order to get just the right degree of string tone with an appropriately dark colour . |
| 24 | I said to Robin , ‘ If its owner has the nerve to call it that , the least we can do is back it . ’ |
| 25 | We then realized that we had to change that image , if you like to call it that , because we were n't really living normal lives any more . |
| 26 | er and in any , in any event there are a number of things I tend to miss altogether if I want to er keep to timetable which I and I , I 'm sure you 're , all the , the audience or group or whatever you like to call it that will welcome an extension of the talk . |
| 27 | Beauty or whatever you call it that makes you feel that you have no shame any more , none left at all . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's Runner Rowles , ’ he grinned nodding towards the man , ‘ a living example , if you call it that , of what a lifetime of too much cider and not enough grub can do to a man ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We call it that because the body only produces it at night , ’ says pioneering researcher Dr Alfred Lewy of the Oregon Health Sciences Uni-versity in America . |