Example sentences of "call [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What d' you call that disorganised scramble ? |
| 2 | Cold , she 'd call that . |
| 3 | If we knew enough and could identify all the individual animals alive , say , one hundred million years ago which were ancestral to existing mice , we would expect to find those animals all belonging to a single species ( although , if we went back far enough , we might not call that species a house mouse ) . |
| 4 | ‘ What would you call that ? , |
| 5 | You will still call that colour ‘ green ’ because you too have been taught that grass is always green . |
| 6 | But you would n't call that a spanking . |
| 7 | ‘ What class of a Christian would ye call that ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Thanks ever so , miss , I do call that kind , ’ she said breathlessly . |
| 9 | This , then , was the situation on what I shall call that Friday , early in the northern summer of 1984 . |
| 10 | You could hardly call that flattery , could you ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And you do n't call that over-persuading ? |
| 12 | You do n't call that idiosyncratic ? |
| 13 | Carrying out a siege in Brazil against rebels , Tom and Gerald , happy to be put in charge of cannon instead of their earlier muskets , describe their efforts against the stone walls of the enemy as ‘ very good fun ’ and are mildly reproved by Archie , who cries , ‘ I do n't call that fun ’ , as : |
| 14 | ‘ I would hardly call that hygienic , would you , Nanny ? ’ she asked . |
| 15 | Erm , what would you call that one Chris ? |
| 16 | This one here , your longest chain is a propane chain , a three chain we 've now got two methile groups as substituants what would you call that Matthew ? |
| 17 | I do call that concentration . ’ |
| 18 | The fact that article 5(1) of the Convention of 1958 used the word ‘ nationality ’ did not call that view into question , since the flag flown by ships and the nationality of natural persons were not interchangeable concepts for all purposes . |
| 19 | What did I call that person who comes |
| 20 | ‘ Would n't call that huge , ’ said Gedanken trying to squint up at the Sun . |
| 21 | ‘ A hundred times the diameter of the Earth , and you do n't call that huge ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Lord save us , d' you call that old ? |
| 23 | I do n't call that fair , do you ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Religious objections , if you can call that superstitious rubbish a religion . |
| 25 | PLAYER : Do you call that an ending ? — with practically everyone on his feet ? |
| 26 | We do , a selection of facials , all are very nice erm , we also do eyebrow shaping , eyebrow trimming , some people would call that erm and removal of facial hair . |
| 27 | Er but of course there was no newspapers er printed at all then , and I 've got , there was a Churchill 's Paper , what did they call that ? |
| 28 | ‘ No need to tell you how sorry I am — goes without saying — but I would n't call that murder , would you ? |
| 29 | What do you call that ? |
| 30 | Yet even so , dare we call that chance ? |