Example sentences of "[vb mod] call [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I suppose we might call you a grown-up child , if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 2 | I suppose you could call me a born optimist . ’ |
| 3 | You could call it a bad year . |
| 4 | ‘ But no one could call it a lucky house , could they ? ’ |
| 5 | In the very first episode I did , we fitted that onto a wobbling camera tracking in ( today you 'd call it a hand-held shot ) and , together with a sucker cup sticking out into shot , it gave you an impression of the thing lumbering towards Barbara down a passage . |
| 6 | My niece , Alison , would call me a bourgeois revisionist , but if that 's what I was then I was content . |
| 7 | I would call it a holding offence ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You can call him a realistic kind of Labour Party man who works with capitalism , ’ says William Wolff , once leader of the party . |
| 9 | You can call it a delayed action , if you like , but it is never the former . |