Example sentences of "[pers pn] call [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She would n't tell me , but was very insistent that I call her the minute you got in . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I call it the Citizen 's Chunder . |
| 4 | ‘ And behind the house — I call it the Castle — I keep animals , and grow my own vegetables . |
| 5 | a lot of them if it is n't sorted out have them the no , what do you call them the adenoids |
| 6 | Why did you call them the tramp ship ? |
| 7 | I did n't care if she called me the son of Frankenstein . |
| 8 | Carol Eastman , meanwhile , had written her screenplay on the inspiration of a Jack London story , which was similar moody vein to Ride the Whirlwind and she called hers The Shooting . |
| 9 | ‘ Did you say you call him the boss ? ’ |
| 10 | The peelings , the erm , what you call it the sprouts |
| 11 | You call us the filth , the enemy , bogies , fuzz . |
| 12 | He looked like a wild thing so we called him the Yeti . |
| 13 | Have one foot on a ladder or the other stack stuck into the f into the into the erm face of stack and then you would struggle and work yourself underneath what w we called it the trinkling . |
| 14 | Well lost property , I already touched on , that was one of my jobs and then erm , we called it the ticket book , that was for want of some other name I suppose . |
| 15 | The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K. |
| 16 | And we called it the man-killer because we had ridge and furrow land down there , and this darn thing they was taking , and nothing would come over the top for ages , and suddenly the whole lot would come over on top of you , of course it as well , and you had to that 's what we were doing . |
| 17 | And we called it the bull because it did n't cry , it sort of bellowed . |
| 18 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 19 | Oh yes , it was at the Strathmore Arms at Hury , and we called it the Show Room , and sometimes the Hut . |
| 20 | ‘ We call him the Eel … ’ |
| 21 | We call him the boss . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We call him the Sweeper , ’ explained Kraal . |
| 23 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
| 24 | ‘ We call him the captain , ’ I said . |
| 25 | These small cerebellar projections — we call them the tonsils — have been compressed against the bony rim of the foramen magnum . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ We call it the Rochester Room , ’ said the Commander , without further explanation . |
| 28 | ‘ We call it the Brain , ’ said Harvey . |
| 29 | But it was er we call it the boss . |
| 30 | We call it the sacrament |