Example sentences of "[pron] call it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
2 | I call it the Citizen 's Chunder . |
3 | ‘ And behind the house — I call it the Castle — I keep animals , and grow my own vegetables . |
4 | There 's another one that 's very much concerned erm with the real situation in schools , we call it the Accountability Project , you realise that accountability is a rather a hot and fashionable word in education these days . |
5 | ‘ We call it the Brain , ’ said Harvey . |
6 | But it was er we call it the boss . |
7 | We call it the sacrament |
8 | We call it the life cover charge , or technically , er , a phrase I 'm sure you 're used it , the mortality reduction . |
9 | ‘ We call it the Gate of Peace now , ’ Erika said . |
10 | ‘ We call it the pen recorder , ’ Turner said . |
11 | On the terrace — ‘ we call it the stoa ’ , Martha 's social secretary informed me — the finalists , in a nervous group , reclined in Bugatti sofas . |
12 | Erm we call it the cherry chucker . |
13 | ‘ We call it The Haunt , ’ Apanage told her , with a shrug . |
14 | They call it the strut now . |
15 | They call it the Winter Game … and those that follow the form from Kelso to Kempton … from Wolverhampton to Wincanton reckon its the hardest game of all … |
16 | They call it The Linny , and Sidney lives in one of the big new houses . |
17 | It used to be the south east midlands , now it 's classed as the south midlands but Bedford , twenty one miles along the road there , and they call it the south . |
18 | ‘ They call it the death zone because above there the human body does n't restore itself any more , it 's always deteriorating . ’ |
19 | key number they call it the number er |
20 | Our Lady was seen by many people , and they call it the shrine of Our Lady of Carns . |