Example sentences of "[pers pn] call it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to have a mind of its own , and I call it The Great One . |
| 2 | Oh I call it the posh shop . |
| 3 | It 's the kind of place best avoided after dark ; it makes me think of poor Moley , and Ratty 's warning , and that 's why I call it the Wild Wood . |
| 4 | She calls it the magic flannel and says : ‘ Mummy you 'll be fine . |
| 5 | Oh yeah , I love the , the mixed of border you call it the mixed of border no , yes ? |
| 6 | And that 's because the third world is bigger than any other section whether you call it the first world or second world or whatever , and I think the first and second put together . |
| 7 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 8 | We call it the Conscious Paradigm . |
| 9 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 10 | Twenty-five years later , when Thérèse and Léonie at last began to talk to each other about that time , they called it the odd summer . |
| 11 | Years ago they had all these narrow looms , about this size , and this is where women worked , they called it the narrow section , and maybe mostly for hotels or you know , in the olden days they had stair , your mother 'll probably , stair runners or holes and the , the carpet just went like that and there 'd be a piece of lino up the side , |
| 12 | They called it the old comedians |
| 13 | yeah , I mean in Ireland they , fair enough , they call it the unionist party |
| 14 | set up , which started at Adams and we used the American mission near Lovedale well it was a part of Lovedale and erm , now , now it 's at er , they call it The Federal Theological Cemetery |
| 15 | in , in wha what is Jordan really , not what was Jordan , what is Jordan they call it now , they call it the occupied territories it seems to clean it up if you call it that . |
| 16 | They call it the Little Vestry . ’ |
| 17 | it was still in the sixties , they call it the swinging sixties , I mean I did n't see anything swinging in the sixties at all , I did n't think it was swinging , but er and they do n't like now the swinging sixties and I think really it was then that er people did er branch out to new ideas . |
| 18 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 19 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 20 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 21 | Yeah he call it the holy seed and that he could have righteous children . |