Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] call [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to interrupt 'cause I call that treason |
| 2 | As written words meant nothing to Marian the name of the man who called himself her foster-father presented no difficulties , but Allen , the boy from the dales of Yorkshire , who could read no more than she could , liked tossing words about and playing with them like pebbles , so he called Fat Watt when he was out of earshot ‘ What Fat ’ . |
| 3 | They tut and fret if I call another Woman a ‘ cow ’ . |
| 4 | So if we call that point blue , red , and we call this one here , blue , blue . |
| 5 | Colleagues , last year as you know er , the C E C put a report before you called Wider Democracy . |
| 6 | Whether we call some individuals Ranters , others Levellers , Diggers , Muggletonians , early Quakers and so forth and then present them either as a type of ‘ lunatic fringe ’ to mainstream developments or , as Hill eloquently puts it in his The World Turned Upside Down : ‘ the attempts of various groups of the common people to impose their own solutions to the problems of their time , in opposition to the wishes of their betters who had called them into political action ’ is a matter of current political alignment and represents the way we wish to intervene in the present as in the past . |
| 7 | ‘ When you called last Saturday . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , Fernando — ’ she turned her face to his ‘ — now I know what you meant when you called this morning — that Steve would need a friend , need my support . ’ |
| 9 | Angela Serota , chairman of Rambert Dance Company , brought news of exciting developments in that company when she called this week on the new theatre 's general manager , Paul Iles . |
| 10 | He was particularly linked to the problems of football hooliganism and sparked a storm when he called English supporters deported from the Italian 1990 World Cup ‘ the effluent tendency ’ . |
| 11 | Whether he had anything new to offer in place of the " stale dogmas of the Cold War " , as he called previous policies , was less clear . |