Example sentences of "[pers pn] call it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I call it a bloody insult ! , |
2 | And the reason I call it a candid portrait is because I do n't think that the he may have seen somebody there with a camera , but he certainly was n't posing for the camera . |
3 | This is why I call it a pessimistic theory . |
4 | ‘ Would you call it an intellectual audience , Herman ? ’ |
5 | She called it a good house , because the maid always kept things for her . |
6 | Yes , why do n't we call it a BLACK HOLE . |
7 | Okay , what we 'll do then is get you to sign this form here , we call it a green form fairly obviously from its colour and that means that I can do up to erm about eighty six pounds worth of er a bit more depending on on what we have to do , and you do n't have to pay us anything towards that . |
8 | Let him call it an English fief if he will , it makes no difference to the truth , it 's but a word . |
9 | In the old Tarzan movies they used drums , and they also used natives and the warriors carried a stick , they called it a forked stick and it looks like the assembly might need a new set of forked sticks |
10 | They call it a Hyper-micro vehicle , which in plain English means its small . |
11 | Du Camp in one of his books — I forget which , there were always so many — made a reference to the malign effect on man of too much solitude , he called it a false counsellor who nurses at her breasts the twin infants of Egotism and Vanity . |
12 | He called it a disgraceful situation for a man in a position of trust . |