Example sentences of "calling it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Keeping her man under her eye and calling it looking after him . ’ |
| 2 | But senators opposed to the bases vowed to block its passage , calling it illegal . |
| 3 | Abyssinia , as I insist on calling it ’ . |
| 4 | In the words of one contemporary observer : ‘ these cheaters turned the cat in the pan , giving to diverse vile patching shift s an honest and godly title , calling it by the name of law … to the destruction of the good labouring people ’ ( Salgá0do , Cony-Catchers , 15 ) . |
| 5 | Rudd designed the chassis , calling it his ‘ overstressed skin car ’ . |
| 6 | In large sections of Punjab they extort money ( calling it taxation ) , hold courts , decree what local newspapers should print and even decide what dress schoolchildren should wear . |
| 7 | Forlornly comical in photos , with its gaunt face and fluffy body , no one else from dusty patent lawyers to impassioned animal rights activists can resist calling it the Gheep . |
| 8 | Calling it ‘ one of the worst taxes ever created in the history of man ’ , the Duke appeared to speak for the old Conservative tradition . |
| 9 | As Senator Cohen put it , a sort of metaphysical exercise went on ‘ to define how many foreign leaders can be made to dance on the head of the President 's contra programme without calling it a solicitation , |
| 10 | This week , each will be hoping to move up a gear for the first of the year 's major championships , even if Augusta do still insist on calling it a tournament . |
| 11 | Eventually the name was transferred , not least because the Spanish were calling it pina . |
| 12 | But Mr Moshe Arens , Defence Minister , attacked the agreement , calling it ‘ capitulation ’ to unfounded claims of racial discrimination . |
| 13 | Brace , from Bridgend , is open about his commitment to the race , calling it ‘ glitter of gold ’ — money rather than medals — and that is why so many of the other runners want to do well . |
| 14 | ‘ They are calling it the ‘ Seweries ’ . ’ |
| 15 | The NCB was keen to play down existing evidence , calling it ‘ conjecture and speculation ’ . |
| 16 | A sad and ironic pendant to this story was the fact that when Dowding was dismissed he could not betray Ultra by calling it to the defence of his strategy . |
| 17 | Count Lambsdorff , the former Economics Minister , now Chairman of the centrist FDP , delivered a particularly strong attack on John Major 's hard ecu plan , calling it ‘ nonsense ’ . |
| 18 | By not calling it a ‘ Nuclear Obligation ’ , the government hoped to avoid a charge of totally rigging the market and could be seen to at least throw out a lifeline to the renewables . |
| 19 | ‘ Ah — the producer 's calling it Mondo Desire . ’ |
| 20 | I thought of calling it that , in fact . |
| 21 | I 'll tell you some of the titles I thought of calling it . |
| 22 | ‘ The Navy are calling it ‘ The Biggest Wave Mission ’ . ' |
| 23 | But calling it wages for housework not only simplifies the solution , it also simplifies the problem . |
| 24 | Antoine Müller became the widow 's chef de caves , or chief cellarer between 1810 and 1822 , although in March of 1822 he resigned from his position and was able to set up his own Champagne establishment , calling it Müller-Ruinart . |
| 25 | The Thrills Nerve Centre has now been ‘ computer-ed up ’ for the '90s and that is precisely why they 're all calling it The Hi-Tech Capital Of Satire . |
| 26 | I 'll settle for calling it beaten . |
| 27 | THE BRAIN EMO story PART 2 : ‘ He tried to change the world by turning it on its side and calling it something else ’ |
| 28 | The congress adopted a name for the party in the historical tradition , calling it the ‘ All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks ’ or VKPB , in an attempt to resurrect the name VKP(b) , which is what the Leninist-Stalinist party was called until 1952 . |
| 29 | That is why the contests for the Labour Party 's leadership and deputy leadership sit so ill in the context of the continuing post-mortem — or biopsy , as Neil Kinnock insisted on calling it — after Labour 's fourth consecutive election defeat . |
| 30 | Last year they were calling it Howards ' Way with horses , this year they 've been calling it Howards ' Way without boats . |