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 . |