Example sentences of "call it the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The peelings , the erm , what you call it the sprouts
2 IF EVEREST were a person — and Tibetans call it the Goddess Mother of the World — it might feel a bit put upon .
3 ‘ We call it the Gate of Peace now , ’ Erika said .
4 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 .
5 But it was er we call it the boss .
6 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 .
7 ‘ We call it the pen recorder , ’ Turner said .
8 ‘ Just call it the advantages of a public school education … ’
9 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 .
10 We call it the life cover charge , or technically , er , a phrase I 'm sure you 're used it , the mortality reduction .
11 They call it The Linny , and Sidney lives in one of the big new houses .
12 We call it the sacrament
13 ‘ We call it the Rochester Room , ’ said the Commander , without further explanation .
14 The members of the committee call it the knobs and knockers committee .
15 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 …
16 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 .
17 ‘ We call it the Brain , ’ said Harvey .
18 They call it the strut now .
19 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 .
20 Campaigners against the bridge call it the Yuppie Tennis Racket from Hell .
21 Locals call it the yuppie tennis racket from hell .
22 In Japan they call it the Paul Smith Classic . ’
23 And to think that in the West they merely call it the Wall .
24 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 ?
25 They remind themselves that it is all linked , one body of water , one mass of 329 million cubic miles of brine , and with unaffected simplicity they call it the World Ocean .
26 On the terrace — ‘ we call it the stoa ’ , Martha 's social secretary informed me — the finalists , in a nervous group , reclined in Bugatti sofas .
27 ‘ They call it the Hilton because it 's such a relaxed regime , ’ says officer Babs Hale .
28 The islanders call it the Johnny rook .
29 ‘ We call it The Haunt , ’ Apanage told her , with a shrug .
30 Our Lady was seen by many people , and they call it the shrine of Our Lady of Carns .
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