Example sentences of "call a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heals and backs and murmurs are darkness and call a howl from her cells ; she lies , almost out of it . |
| 2 | His reaction might have been enough to make her call a halt to the whole thing . |
| 3 | A ‘ lamp ’ is the correct name for what most of us call a light bulb , and the common or garden light bulb is known as a GLS ( general lighting service ) lamp . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most emotive case of the Supreme Court 's term involves a young Missouri woman kept alive for six years in what doctors call a ‘ persistent vegetative state ’ . |
| 5 | He gives me what the French call a curious regard and asks me to explain myself . |
| 6 | Scorn will heaped on the book by people who can not think of the countryside as anything other than a marketable resource , or those who think they are being environmentally perceptive because they call a gate a peripherial access point and a path a mountain access route . |
| 7 | The last remnant of the storm hits us , thick snow blotting out the view of anything , so reluctantly we call a halt and go back down on to the lake . |
| 8 | This morning we are going to carry out What we call a ‘ pairs obs and recce ’ task . |
| 9 | Thus le rugbyman ( as the French call a rugby player ) becomes les rugbymans and they will play in matchs , not matches . |
| 10 | In the meantime , they are learning to live in what the Poles call a ‘ grey area ’ , the Czechoslovaks and Hungarians a ‘ vacuum ’ . |
| 11 | He sits there , his hands shaking , his movements robotic , the look on his face similar to what the marines call a thousand-yard stare . |
| 12 | I think you 're having what they call a nervous breakdown . |
| 13 | He lives on a diet of Mars bars , peanut butter sarnies , and a cake we call a vanilla slice — three layers of melting pastry , vanilla custard and cream . |
| 14 | Now that 's what I call a programme . |
| 15 | Look , that 's what we call a ‘ goat ’ . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Yeltsin could either plead with Congress when it resumes tomorrow to reconsider its vote or go over its head and call a referendum on a new constitution that would effectively dissolve it . |
| 17 | And that 's what I call a real bargain : something that 's an improvement and saves you money . |
| 18 | An investigation was considered to have been concluded once a judgement had been made about whether the allegation(s) had been substantiated or not and decisions made about how to proceed to an outcome , for example , to close the case , offer treatment , call a case conference , etc . |
| 19 | There were three soldiers going house-to-house with fifteen photographers and a couple of TV crews ; it was what we call a ‘ dog and pony show ’ . |
| 20 | But one of Clarke 's sons with a turfe spade , which they call a peate iron , ( a very keen thing , ) struck Sir Edward 's man on the head and cloave out his brains . |
| 21 | The first tournament I went to was at Tucson , Arizona , and I became what they call a ‘ parking-lot caddie ’ . |
| 22 | That does n't mean I started parking cars ; it 's what they call a caddie who waits in the club ‘ s parking lot for a bag . |
| 23 | For there would be some temporal duration represented by each revolution of the wheel and a certain number of these revolutions would still take place in the interval of time we call a day , even though the motion of the sun had ceased . |
| 24 | Call a child stupid often enough , and she will act as if she were stupid , which almost amounts to becoming stupid . |
| 25 | Call a teenager bad often enough , treat him as someone who is bad and he is likely to fulfil your ‘ prophecy ’ . |
| 26 | The station had at its beck and call a talented pool of musicians , singers , actors , actresses and conductors . |
| 27 | This process of being stimulated by theory to carry out further research , and research contributing to the building-up of theory , is essentially what scientists call a ‘ feedback mechanism ’ . |
| 28 | have a reputation for having a no-nonsense ‘ call a spade a spade ’ style |
| 29 | ‘ Its what they call a ‘ wood rabbit ’ ; they eat a lot of wood , hence the sawdust' . |
| 30 | Call a more senior member of staff or |