Example sentences of "[conj] call [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aggro is likely to be considered appropriate in situations where opposing fans attempt a territorial invasion of their rivals ' ‘ end ’ ; where one hooligan fan stares at , or adopts a threatening posture towards an opponent , or calls him a demasculatory name , such as ‘ cunt ’ , ‘ wanker ’ , or ‘ poofta ’ . |
| 2 | Worse than calling him a Jew , |
| 3 | The prat that calls himself the Hitman is how Stock Aitken Waterman 's Pete Waterman describes himself . |
| 4 | People , for reasons best known to themselves , regularly push wardrobes or pull pianos up the motorway that calls itself the tourist path . |
| 5 | He might still be a force for peace and unity in a country that calls itself The Union of Burma . |
| 6 | You see any product that calls itself an ‘ anti-perspirant ’ works by actually blocking the pores of your skin with chemicals . |
| 7 | He made for it , taking a short cut through the carpark adjoining a few prefabricated sheds that called themselves the Hawkwood Industrial Estate . |
| 8 | and he goes that 's that fucking arsehole that called you a slut is n't it ? |
| 9 | Anyone would think there was a law which stipulated that to call yourself a specialist in private medicine , you needed the necessary training and experience . |
| 10 | The jury chose to ignore Mr Justice Drake 's advice that to call someone a queer ‘ may not be defamatory ’ and that the matter was ‘ very debatable ’ . |
| 11 | We might even say that to call it a statement is misleading . |
| 12 | Realising that Macleod had perceived him clearly , Boswell introduces a short apologia pro vita sua , ‘ a short defence of that propensity in my disposition ’ , in which he justifies his pursuit of the great and famous as ‘ nothing more than an eagerness to share the society of men distinguished either by their rank or talents ’ , and calls it a search for knowledge . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |
| 14 | These things always come along as a bit of an afterthought because they are never going to make as much money as the workstation version , but Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |
| 15 | My Dad — I could n't have believed it ! — we went down last weekend and he was sitting there , polishing the buttons on his old uniform and calling me a traitor ! ’ |
| 16 | As in the NUM strike of 1984 , the women have been the backbone of this struggle : dressed in camouflage and calling themselves the Daughters of Mother Jones , after the legendary union organiser from the turn of the century , they have walked the picket lines , sat in front of coal trucks , and been arrested . |
| 17 | Tod and I reclined on the wrung bedding as Irene advanced into the room , holding a tightly gripped paper tissue to her eyes and calling us a piece of shit . |
| 18 | Parsys Ltd , London NW , has come out with a new version of its 30MHz T805 Transputer-based SuperNode 1000 parallel processor optimised to run the Oracle Corp relational database system and calling it the SN2000 . |
| 19 | Other developments for the backpacker : Coleman are now making their Multifuel stove with a detachable fuel bottle and calling it the Apex stove . |
| 20 | Her brother was disgusted and called her a filthy collaborator , but at least the Englishman was safe . |
| 21 | Now and again , he could be militant : when Lady Astor gave a speech in which she suggested that ex-servicemen should wear arm bands to warn people that they might have venereal disease , my father shouted her down and called her an ex-chorus girl . |
| 22 | Everyone laughed , and the captain clapped me on the back and called me a good fellow . |
| 23 | Sometimes he was angry with me and called me a ‘ hard little thing ’ or ‘ a cruel spirit ’ , but I preferred that to being called ‘ my darling ’ . |
| 24 | The Oxford public orator of 1960 commended him for all he had done in persuading Oxford undergraduates to a reasonable faith and called him a most penetrating interpreter of the New Testament and a very powerful bulwark of Mother Church . |
| 25 | Buddie had been very angry , but everyone else had laughed at Frankie and called him a snivelling cissy . |
| 26 | Foreign observers sniggered and called him a basketball player . |
| 27 | No wonder his chairman , Sam Hammam , has hit the roof and called him a mosquito brain . |
| 28 | Eventually I fell on my knees and called him a fucking bastard , and he just laughed . |
| 29 | And eventually rap rapped his face and called him a effing person like , you know , it 's |
| 30 | Brown Owl had put all three into the same Six and called them the Ghillie Dhu . |