Example sentences of "do they call " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the project 's scientists — and the intellectual giants who ran Britain 's nuclear programme at the time — were n't all that sure about the measurements , why did they call large press conferences ( on 23 January , 1958 ) and flood the scientific press with detailed descriptions of the work ? |
| 2 | What the hell did they call it ? |
| 3 | It was as if the magic house in the wood had had an invisible fence set around it or — what did they call it ? — a shutting spell . |
| 4 | What did they call each other ? |
| 5 | Er but of course there was no newspapers er printed at all then , and I 've got , there was a Churchill 's Paper , what did they call that ? |
| 6 | " Who did they call for the defence ? " asked Middlemass . |
| 7 | What did they call you in the Clay ? ’ |
| 8 | And after that you 'd go to your own classes and you had a , a set er what did they call it ? |
| 9 | Well just corsets like that , and they 're fastened on the front with things that clicked in and then sometimes they would have a What they called a Oh what on earth did they call that ? |
| 10 | what did they call that man he er we used to have them at Pierhead as well . |
| 11 | What did they call that ? |
| 12 | If we were a fruiterer. we had more more quote like er wh what did they call them ? |
| 13 | ‘ Why did they call you Charlie ? ’ |
| 14 | Yeah just a just a wooden bit of wood at the front and a a wooden bottom and then they had erm bed what did they call bed-sacks they call them |
| 15 | Was it erm what did they call Isobel Isobel |
| 16 | Did you tell me what did they call the one who lived there ? |
| 17 | And what did they call her ? |
| 18 | What did they call your mate then at ? |
| 19 | erm Sam Sodding , and it used to , but I used to say to mother why did they call him Sam Sodding ? |
| 20 | Oh I ca n't tell you that I would n't never discuss things like that , until I got about twenty five , you know neighbours or not , and I said why did they call him ? |
| 21 | Was it erm what did they call ? |
| 22 | And er she says er , what did they call her ? |
| 23 | As a last attempt at conversation , I asked Jock , ‘ Tell me , why do they call you Jock ? |
| 24 | He has inherited … what do they call them ? ’ |
| 25 | And why do they call themselves that ? ’ |
| 26 | A German firm froze the the b the the the the b sandstone There 's a er the What do they call it ? |
| 27 | ‘ Go to this place — what do they call it ? the Fire Court — and take the proposals for the marriage of Inchbad , ’ said Floy . |
| 28 | But I think we should say that Biffa er what do they call it ? |
| 29 | " I mean to buy a caravan — do they call them " Mobile Homes ' , what an awful name ! — Gigi will love it . " |
| 30 | And I was — what do they call it ? — the other consenting adult in the affair . ’ |