Example sentences of "[pron] you might call a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They call themselves Rektum , and all signs suggest they enjoyed what you might call a safe passage . |
| 2 | What you might call a new one . ’ |
| 3 | It was what you might call a duty fuck . |
| 4 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's notion that Sun Microsystems Inc has set up a hush-hush research unit to investigate HyperSparc ( UX No 410 ) , is what you might call a tad overstated . |
| 5 | It 's voluntary but there 's what you might call a lot of job satisfaction . ’ |
| 6 | Russell was what you might call a social climber , inasmuch as he specialized in fitting out rock shelters for himself at various altitudes and if possible receiving his friends in them . |
| 7 | First , what you might call a local bye-law ; a rule for this particular sort of book . |
| 8 | Who demonstrated what you might call a profound lack of interest . |
| 9 | Father was what you might call a rake . |
| 10 | They 're what you might call a very catholic collection : flagellation , paedophilia , coprophilia ( sorry , I forget you 're not an aficionado — the sexual dimension of shit — J. Joyce had leanings that way ) , along with the usual nuns-and-donkeys sort of stuff . |
| 11 | Every now and again , we run up against what you might call a medieval . |
| 12 | In this case Dr Lusman did not do that and he took the sample by using his finger and a spatula , in what you might call a blind manner , and doing it by feeling . |
| 13 | Whereas we used to have what you might call an across-the-table relationship with our customers , now we can claim to be sitting on the same side of the table . ’ |
| 14 | Hardly what you might call an international banking centre . |
| 15 | Bob , at eighty , is what you might call an enthusiast . |