Example sentences of "[verb] call " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't ye dare call me that , ye bloody cow ! ’ he roared , half-raising his fist . |
| 2 | Head in the air — they would n't dare call me ‘ show-off ’ at a moment like this — I launched myself down that gaping passage-way and marched in to Dinwiddie 's room . |
| 3 | West Yorkshire ( ‘ Greater Leeds , ’ as one citizen calls it , ‘ but I would n't dare call it that in Bradford or Sheffield ’ ) is the source and spiritual home of the thrift movement . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't you dare call her ‘ Mother ’ , ’ she 'd muttered under her breath , hurrying away . |
| 5 | Riva , however , raises her clenched fingers to her lips , and hisses into them , ‘ Do n't you dare call her that , dybbuk , ever again ! ’ |
| 6 | ( 64 ) Let me hear now who dares call him profligate . |
| 7 | ( 64 – ) Let me hear now whether anyone dares call him profligate . |
| 8 | At that moment , a voice did call , so that she jerked with shock . |
| 9 | Whenever Woolridge did call on his wife , a violent row ensued . |
| 10 | Funnily enough — now this makes me think a bit , although it was probably just because he liked the name — he did call his daughter Hannah . |
| 11 | Others , perhaps less charitable , did call for the resignation of the Director of Social Work , Paul Lee , and they believed the Chairman of the Social Work Committee , Councillor Mrs Mairhi Trickett , should also resign . |
| 12 | Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat . |
| 13 | Although she did call for a fuller apprenticeship for women , Amelia McLean did not argue ( nor did anyone else ) that the Monotype made old-fashioned apprentice ships redundant , and that by a historical reversal of the usual procedure , women compositors in 1910 actually controlled a skilled process while men did not . |
| 14 | However , he did call in his aid the fact that the Disciplinary Tribunal Regulations of the Inns ' Council permit evidence to be adduced which would not ordinarily be admissible in a court of law . |
| 15 | ‘ I did call the doctor , madam … straight away . ’ |
| 16 | Gorbachev did call for ‘ further changes and transformations ’ and for the establishment of a ‘ qualitatively new state of society , in the broadest sense of the word ’ . |
| 17 | In our pragmatic and knowing century we probably find such ambition a little provincial ( well , Turgenev did call Flaubert naïve ) . |
| 18 | people did call the number adopted or not , and I would have thought that was |
| 19 | Yes I did call you Dominic did n't I ? |
| 20 | He was musing that the synthetic religions of Stalin and Hitler should neither of them ‘ properly be called pagan , but if you do call them pagan then we must say that they 're inferior as religions to genuine primitive pagan religion ’ . |
| 21 | Those that do call can be given a copy of the invitation document if they are not already aware of it . |
| 22 | Samuel Pepys , visiting his relations at Wisbech thirty-five years later , was equally unimpressed as he passed through ‘ most sad fennes , all the way observing the sad life which the people of the place — which if they were born there , they do call the Breedlings of the place — do live , sometimes rowing from one spot to another and then wadeing ’ . |
| 23 | Do call me Louise , Jacques … |
| 24 | ‘ Thanks ever so , miss , I do call that kind , ’ she said breathlessly . |
| 25 | But they do call for explanation . |
| 26 | ‘ Do call me Zephro ! |
| 27 | I do call that concentration . ’ |
| 28 | I got er timed in there with the , what do call them , they come and timed you , erm |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I do call that amusing , ’ Miss Poraway said , ‘ the whole thing . ’ |
| 30 | Do call me sausage … ’ |