Example sentences of "you could call " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , not up anything you could call a ’ |
| 2 | In light of the heat and humidity that permeate Florida much of the year , you could call the tennis academies that dot the state ‘ Sweat Shops for the Sneaker Set ’ . |
| 3 | I suppose you could call him something of a gear freak . |
| 4 | In town it requires vast amounts of arm-flailing lock but is never what you could call light . |
| 5 | The Strange and Singular Lunacy of A. Byrne , you could call it ! |
| 6 | The Smiths were prime movers in what you could call the depoliticization of personal life , after punk 's initial demystification . |
| 7 | At the time David was going through , what I suppose you could call an apprenticeship and he really did n't know what he wanted to do . |
| 8 | ‘ I said you could call me Mollie . ’ |
| 9 | I suppose you could call me a born optimist . ’ |
| 10 | When the train stopped he dragged his heavy suitcase onto the platform ; if you could call it a platform because it was only some wooden planks resting on a pile of milkcrates . |
| 11 | If you are anxious , you could call again this afternoon . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I guess you could call them orgies in the strictest definition , ’ he admitted . |
| 13 | You could call it Gothic , but it is n't . ’ ) |
| 14 | If you could call it afternoon when there 'd been no lunch . |
| 15 | No , I 'm afraid I 've never really had what you could call a boyfriend , someone to come calling to take me out . |
| 16 | If you could call it that . |
| 17 | Parker — his first name was Hugh , if his pals called him Shug or Shuggie — it was his first sore eye , his first fight , if you could call it that , since he was a child ; about six or seven , a girl had beat him up . |
| 18 | The altar , if you could call it that , was as a block of ice to him . |
| 19 | Well , you need n't call it wages for housework , you could call it the state paying for childcare at home , could n't you ? |
| 20 | If you could call working in the kitchens of a Chinese restaurant being alive . |
| 21 | None of the fish in any of his tanks are what you could call unusual — Corydoras , Barbs , Livebearers , a couple of splendid wild Angels , and a Red Tailed Black Shark make up the majority of the stock . |
| 22 | The only fault — if you could call it a fault on a brand-new guitar — is that it 's perhaps still a bit closed-in and inhibited . |
| 23 | Its one wart , if you could call it that , is its oddball control layout . |
| 24 | If you 'd care to stay , there 's coffee and magazines over there , or you could call back to collect her at noon . ’ |
| 25 | To help you get out of the red you could call on a qualified chartered accountant for between £50 and £60 an hour . |
| 26 | Now that I am working in Edinburgh you could call this brief report a ‘ Capital Update ’ ! |
| 27 | You could call it Reservoir Bitches . |
| 28 | Good job you could call him up . ’ |
| 29 | Masklin crept back through the grass to the nomes ' camp , if that 's what you could call a tiny dry space under a scrap of thrown-away plastic . |
| 30 | You could call it a smash and grab attention job . |