Example sentences of "call i [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 2 | Why do they keep calling me Sarah . |
| 3 | ‘ And you better start calling me Mum , ’ said Gloria . |
| 4 | All the time I worked for him , he seemed to be calling me Hancock , Harris or Hopkins — Hockin , or more often Bruce , on the days he was less vague and preoccupied . |
| 5 | Stop calling me Eric . ’ |
| 6 | She said later : ‘ I gave the officer a ticking-off for calling me love . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Why are you calling me Hummingbird , not Hummy ? ’ |
| 8 | I made my way up to the lobby with those final two words of hers ringing around inside my head , and all sorts of other doctor phrases started to enter my mind — people calling me Doctor Streeter , popular songs with the word doctor in them — and then all of a sudden I started to cry . |
| 9 | The next day in school all my mates started calling me Ginger . |
| 10 | For instance , in the hospital they were calling me Mrs , because er the stigma er , is so much , and I mean er , I even get called a single parent and I 'm not ! |
| 11 | I keep thinking I 'm going to get stamped on , even when the clots are calling me Franz . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't keep calling me boy , Mother . ’ |
| 13 | Why is she calling me darling ? thought Henry . |
| 14 | Do you really expect me to believe that it 's out of respect for my position that you insist on calling me Mr Vass ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I want you to stop calling me Mr Scott , ’ he advised her blandly . |
| 16 | Well , he keeps calling me Mr Robbie , because , for some reason , he thinks I resemble this silly character . |
| 17 | Do n't try distancing yourself from me by calling me Mr Calder . |
| 18 | I remember this time after school there was a fight between blacks and whites ; I went and stayed in the toilets for a half-hour thinking what I should do and that 's when I really took a look at myself and thought about the white kids calling me names and the black kids saying ‘ come on ’ so I said ‘ all right ’ . |
| 19 | He kept calling me James ; somehow I could not call him Alec . |
| 20 | I told him they ai n't weeds , but proper plants like , but he still keeps on calling me Billy Weed . |
| 21 | ask her about , she was calling me Sharon on the train cos I was wearing a skirt , she 's going oh Sharon , she was drunk |
| 22 | She thought : If only there was a Jonah calling me M'Lady and running frightful risks chasing after spies all across Europe in a great Bentley . |
| 23 | I will always remember undoing that first roller — I had forgotten to put the neutraliser on , it looked like a nightmare and all my mates were calling me poodle head . |
| 24 | ‘ And we can make a start by you calling me Niall . |
| 25 | ‘ You do n't normally go round calling me John all the time . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And by the way , suppose you start calling me Melissa ? |
| 27 | They gybed , and slewed round into Derek and Mrs Derek , who was screaming , ‘ Stop calling me Leo ! ’ at her husband . |
| 28 | She said , ‘ Do you find it strange to see the Sun Chamber so empty , Captain ? ’ and Fergus thought : oho ! she is calling me Captain . |
| 29 | We do n't mention Lucker 's gaff with calling me Julie . |
| 30 | ‘ Stop calling me Miss Cornflower — it 's quite stupid , ’ she hissed furiously . |