Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb base] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pakeezah thanked her : ‘ Now that 's what I call a nice cup of tea , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Frithrah , you 're what I call a Chief Rabbit ! " |
| 3 | " I tell you , he 's what I call a Chief Rabbit . |
| 4 | Yes they can erm , distinguish between what I call a do-it-yourself alarms and th the recognized companies . |
| 5 | Can I just quickly ask whether there 's any cooperation with the youth service in taking these children out on , what I call a challenging activity like rock climbing , like at weekend residential , because you know , it , it seems cooperation there would be very beneficial I 'm sure , in certain types of children who need the physical as well ? |
| 6 | Well we always used to have what I call a traditional Sunday dinner |
| 7 | Losing Betty Boo and getting The Sultans Of Ping FC is not what I call a good deal . |
| 8 | Now that 's what I call a good funeral |
| 9 | And that 's what I call a real bargain : something that 's an improvement and saves you money . |
| 10 | Well fortunately , for me she was n't what I call a big lady |
| 11 | And er , he was a good clean butcher , what I call a clean butcher , you know . |
| 12 | ‘ Black people in America and internationally within the last 500 years have been put under what I call a policed state , ’ comments Singleton . |
| 13 | It is also important to create what I call a maternal genealogy to add to the paternal lineage which the current histories of art canonise — the succession of geniuses passing on the Olympic torch down the ages , man to man . |
| 14 | I also have some other tablets , smaller ones , which I have to take if I get a pain across the chest and it persists … what I call a chuntering thing . |
| 15 | Always joking about rats : that 's what I call a weird sense of humour . |
| 16 | Of course , if two members of staff happen to fall in love and decide to marry , it would be churlish to be apportioning blame ; but what I find a major irritation are those persons — and housekeepers are particularly guilty here — who have no genuine commitment to their profession and who are essentially going from post to post looking for romance . |
| 17 | What you mean a big number ? |
| 18 | You may want to go back to your original data and indicate what you want a certain sound to be ow that you have checked it , and from now on you would use correct and consistent symbolisation . |
| 19 | And we want to know about what you want a new ad . |
| 20 | It 's not what you call a rational act . |
| 21 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 22 | He was n't er was n't what you call a good father at all , no , was n't a good provider . |
| 23 | This is what you call a Cosmic Mystery . |
| 24 | Er you get what what you call a small blues during the week , but Friday , Saturday , Sunday and Monday , you can expect er large blues . |
| 25 | It is still what you call a long shot ? ’ |
| 26 | What you call a free soul , that 's me ; free as the wind . ’ |
| 27 | All local agreements up and down the country which it counted to eighty odds were all scrubbed and there was what you call a national agreement established to cover the whole of Scotland which meant the man in the remotest part of Scotland got the same wages and conditions as in as the man in Edinburgh or Glasgow or any big city . |
| 28 | Yeah , now then , one of the things , when we get this complex numbers and B , itself is a real number and B itself is a real number , right , plus B , I , is actually what we call a complex number , if those two apart , they 're just numbers . |
| 29 | The second thing we 're doing is we 've we are going to attract a lot of money from what we call a specific grant for mentally ill . |
| 30 | Yeah , what we call a new cut , we dredge right opposite the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all and we used to do that tide time , had to work at ti tides , when it 's high tide , cos that otherwise there were n't any water there at all . |