Example sentences of "[verb] to call it [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that the Prime Minister wants to call it the opt-in clause . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The director 's finally decided to call it a day , ’ he said . |
| 4 | They had decided to call it a day , that was all . |
| 5 | Piper had started using Red Indian names for its aircraft and when it inherited the ‘ poor man 's Dakota ’ from Stinson the double fin and rudder layout was replaced with a single one and it was decided to call it the Apache . |
| 6 | Vosper Hovermarine prefers to call it a surface effect ship . |
| 7 | Though he prefers to call it the Hospice Coast to Coast , ramblers have already nicknamed the route Clapperton 's Way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Agreed to call it a night . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | John and Maureen decided to call it a day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He decided to call it a day after doctors told him he had lost the other testicle . |
| 15 | Although we broke even , we could not pay our wages and decided to call it a day ’ . |
| 16 | She decided to call it a day . |
| 17 | By 1 p.m. we had another forty-five sheep on deck and decided to call it a day . |
| 18 | For health reasons , 69-year-old decided to call it a day on March 19 after working for five years in the semi-moist processing section . |
| 19 | The Indians ran out of arrows — they decided to call it a day |
| 20 | When I decide to call it a day , they 'll stop too . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Do you want to call it a night ? ’ asked Surkov , perhaps hopefully . |
| 22 | So he agreed to call it a day . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | All His Own Work could have been the title of Stephen Coonts ' book , instead he chose to call it The Cannibal Queen ( Century Publishing , 344pp , illus , hbk , £16.99 ) . |
| 25 | Its inhabitants liked to call it the Woldopolis and to regard it as the hub of life in that part of the East Riding . |
| 26 | The trophy became known as the Gordon Bennett Cup , although he preferred to call it the Coupe Internationale . |
| 27 | The mellow stone of the edifice — she hesitated to call it a house — was modelled into an elaborate copy of a French château , complete with round , steepled towers at the corners and an intricate garden laid out in the foreground … |
| 28 | She hesitated to call it a party , but the hostess thought it a good opporotunity to invite round like-minded friends . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Two years and two back operations later he has been forced to call it a day . |