Example sentences of "call [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Je boy and stuff like that they all call them boy at the end of the name John boy an |
| 2 | Although the authors call them letters they are in fact a form of communication we call prayer . |
| 3 | as some people call them sermon on the |
| 4 | Very few people , ’ he concluded , ‘ have seen the Picts and because of their colouring , size and silent ways , it is easy to understand why folk call them pixies , goblins or elves . ’ |
| 5 | " You call them law , but they break the law ! " |
| 6 | Call them A — F. Three groups ( A — C ) would be trained on water , three ( D — F ) on the methylanthranilate , and amongst both water and methylanthranilate birds , one group ( A and D ) would be unshocked ( or rather , to be sure , ‘ sham ’ shocked — I would go through the motions of shocking them but with the current turned off ) , one group shocked immediately after training ( B and E ) and one shocked after a delay ( C and F ) . |
| 7 | Is it perennial the ones they call them ones that come up every year ? |
| 8 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 9 | No wonder you call them Friends . |
| 10 | No wonder the Polynesians call them aa flows — and go round the long way ! |
| 11 | I call them Billies regardless of sex , using an amiable tone of voice since it is important they do not become involved in or suffer any hostility of any sort . |
| 12 | ‘ How well do you have to know someone before you call them friend ? ’ |
| 13 | Sea horses are interesting because what happens is , males produce sperm of course , that 's why we call them males of course , females produce eggs of course , that 's why they 're called females . |
| 14 | You see one of the thin well they call them reps sorry we call them consultants now . |
| 15 | I used to go to Orkney for to go and asked for some cardboard boxes only we call them pasteboard boxes . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's why we call them donors , ’ he says . |
| 17 | ‘ Some people call them fairies , goblins . |
| 18 | ‘ Meadow hay ’ is made from permanent pasture containing a large proportion of indigenous meadow-grasses , clovers , and herbs ( some call them weeds ) . |
| 19 | There were beautiful wild flowers — I suppose some people call them weeds — such as yellow poppies , wild geraniums , forget-me- nots , campanulas and tiny wild violas springing up everywhere , as well as masses of snowdrops . ’ |
| 20 | You see one of the thin well they call them reps sorry we call them consultants now . |
| 21 | The company is America 's largest producer of wire storage racks ( they call them home organisation products ) . |
| 22 | ( That some people lack these impulses is normally grounds for criticism ; we call them sadists , cruel , or , if it is by way of business , then merely hardened . ) |
| 23 | And these long , then man out see , but they call them travel head lads see ? |
| 24 | coal , and then rake down to the bottom and that 's when you open the little door for the draught to go up and they cal they call them tortoise stove . |
| 25 | We call them scientists ! ’ |
| 26 | well I thought well if it checks me another six months at least when they say have you got any experience , but as I say I 'm still in touch with Mencap and I 'm still in touch with mine and I 've also er put in for , what they call them mobility insistence for the Princess Marina which again an education and you just go in and be , be a friend to somebody and you take them out for an hour , er a couple of hours , you , and you 're paid five pounds eighty for a two hour session |
| 27 | Biblical motifs recur — some art-experts call them sermons in stone , and their messages would certainly have been clear to the often-illiterate medieval pilgrims trudging to Santiago de Compostela in Spain . |
| 28 | The nails at the ends of these specialized toes have become large and hard , and we call them hooves . |
| 29 | Others call them myth , meaning to say that they contain truth , even though they are not literally and historically true . |
| 30 | I do n't call these er interviews I call them discussions because they are self employed positions and er I seem them as a business opportunity rather than a job quote job . |