Example sentences of "to call it [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took 30 minutes of argument , a great deal of soothing of apparently hurt professional pride , and not a little money to persuade Chela that it was time to call it a night , alone . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you want to call it a night ? ’ asked Surkov , perhaps hopefully . |
| 3 | Agreed to call it a night . |
| 4 | ‘ Pleasant though this is , I think it 's time to call it a night , ’ he announced , getting to his feet . |
| 5 | Vosper Hovermarine prefers to call it a surface effect ship . |
| 6 | It 's not right to call it a boulder problem ; it has 16 moves and is 25 feet long . |
| 7 | Actually it would be more accurate to call it a tutor ‘ hut ’ since our class is based in one of those ‘ temporary ’ classrooms that sprouted up around schools all over the country about twenty years ago . |
| 8 | No , a carol No it i I 'm not going to call it in the programme that , I 'm going to call it a song for everyone . |
| 9 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 10 | John and Maureen decided to call it a day . |
| 11 | By 1800 hours we are able to call it a day . |
| 12 | Though he rejoined the race a few minutes later , Albers , who won the opening round of the series at Donington , was forced to call it a day four laps later . |
| 13 | Polls suggested that up to one in four Conservative MPs wanted her to go before the next general election : growing numbers of backbenchers were prepared openly to declare that the time had come for her to call it a day . |
| 14 | So he agreed to call it a day . |
| 15 | Two years and two back operations later he has been forced to call it a day . |
| 16 | A desperate mix of pride and masochism would have kept me wallowing around until dark , but I was forcefully persuaded to call it a day . |
| 17 | VIZ magazine creator Chris Donald is right when he says it might be time to call it a day . |
| 18 | Nothing much doing at the pond , they had set the rods up and were wandering around , looking for frogs and newts , then they returned to their rods ; nothing stirred , so around 10pm they decided to call it a day . |
| 19 | Chapman says : ‘ I often wonder what will become of Forest when Brian Clough decides to call it a day . |
| 20 | Martina set to call it a day |
| 21 | Mandy Yachad and Mark Rushmere made half centuries and when both sides agreed to call it a day the Invitation XI had reached 129–1 . |
| 22 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 23 | THE party 's over , it 's time to call it a day — but Catherine Zeta Jones was having such a perfick time she just did n't notice . |
| 24 | He decided to call it a day after doctors told him he had lost the other testicle . |
| 25 | His well-being is of even higher importance to Scotland now that Peter Dods , such an admirable understudy with 23 caps , had decided to call it a day . |
| 26 | Although we broke even , we could not pay our wages and decided to call it a day ’ . |
| 27 | When I decide to call it a day , they 'll stop too . ’ |
| 28 | Whitlock had wanted to remain on duty for the banquet at the United Nations that evening but Kolchinsky had told him to call it a day . |
| 29 | She decided to call it a day . |
| 30 | By 1 p.m. we had another forty-five sheep on deck and decided to call it a day . |