Example sentences of "was calling [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I knew that he was calling P C into the room to give him cover . |
| 2 | Yeah , it 's exactly that kind of experience that I think has got me thinking about what I was saying before you came , well before we were just doing the coffee , about the idea of actually starting to draw , well I was calling contracts , but probably it 's more better called agreements , about you know , the theatre will do this , we will do that and |
| 3 | She was calling Chertro , her FedPol friend of the lean and grinning face . |
| 4 | He was calling Peter 's bluff — but she was the pawn . |
| 5 | Her question never got answered , for just then another couple with a dog appeared in the distance and Vendelin Gajdusek was calling Azor to heel so that he could leash him . |
| 6 | I was calling Sweetman 's bluff , confident he would not dare pull the trigger , and equally confident that my marine training would let me turn him into mincemeat . |
| 7 | It seems like only yesterday that the charming Mike Gatting , then England 's captain , was calling umpire Shakoor Rana ‘ a cheating b*****d . ’ |