Example sentences of "call it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF EVEREST were a person — and Tibetans call it the Goddess Mother of the World — it might feel a bit put upon . |
| 2 | ‘ We call it the Gate of Peace now , ’ Erika said . |
| 3 | Call it the spirit of the times , call it the public mood , call it peer-group pressure ; it is a powerful , often irresistible , influence on the way we behave . |
| 4 | But it was er we call it the boss . |
| 5 | There 's another one that 's very much concerned erm with the real situation in schools , we call it the Accountability Project , you realise that accountability is a rather a hot and fashionable word in education these days . |
| 6 | ‘ We call it the pen recorder , ’ Turner said . |
| 7 | Now when I look back on that part of my life , I want to make a film and call it The Loneliness of the Long Distance Latent Lesbian . |
| 8 | We call it the life cover charge , or technically , er , a phrase I 'm sure you 're used it , the mortality reduction . |
| 9 | They call it The Linny , and Sidney lives in one of the big new houses . |
| 10 | We call it the sacrament |
| 11 | They call it the Winter Game … and those that follow the form from Kelso to Kempton … from Wolverhampton to Wincanton reckon its the hardest game of all … |
| 12 | It used to be the south east midlands , now it 's classed as the south midlands but Bedford , twenty one miles along the road there , and they call it the south . |
| 13 | ‘ We call it the Brain , ’ said Harvey . |
| 14 | They call it the strut now . |
| 15 | and Alan 's light was on in the hall , call it the hall and the car was there well a little while later he went . |
| 16 | Campaigners against the bridge call it the Yuppie Tennis Racket from Hell . |
| 17 | Locals call it the yuppie tennis racket from hell . |
| 18 | And to think that in the West they merely call it the Wall . |
| 19 | But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ? |
| 20 | On the terrace — ‘ we call it the stoa ’ , Martha 's social secretary informed me — the finalists , in a nervous group , reclined in Bugatti sofas . |
| 21 | ‘ We call it The Haunt , ’ Apanage told her , with a shrug . |
| 22 | Our Lady was seen by many people , and they call it the shrine of Our Lady of Carns . |
| 23 | ‘ They call it the death zone because above there the human body does n't restore itself any more , it 's always deteriorating . ’ |
| 24 | I call it the Citizen 's Chunder . |
| 25 | As the float enters this section — call it the killing area if you like — you raise the tip of your rod slightly . |
| 26 | More probably he had tapped a fresh source of energy in himself — call it the power of love — which made him feel invincible . |
| 27 | key number they call it the number er |
| 28 | Erm we call it the cherry chucker . |
| 29 | The huntsmen call it the Autumn Hunt . |
| 30 | Some people call it the nook but you just sat on the jam stones . |