Example sentences of "call [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt my father would call them tarty . |
| 2 | Her credentials , if she could call them that , had somehow got about . |
| 3 | Almost without exception these packages , if one can still call them that , are based around the spreadsheet and provide overlays to offer additional functions such as word processing , data base and communications . |
| 4 | A symbol perhaps of a manufactured city … but the Milton Keynesians , if you can call them that , say life here could n't be better . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll call them all , personally . ’ |
| 6 | If they do n't call them all in pretty fast , there 'll be more of them up there . |
| 7 | Yes , if it comforts you to play with words like that , you can call them all dogs . |
| 8 | So you 've got relatives that are there are , there are distant relative , they 're still related to you , you would n't call them one of your family because th the relationship is so distant . |
| 9 | Respondents in the health and lifestyle survey were asked ‘ Think of someone who is very healthy , who are you thinking of and why do you call them healthy ? ’ |
| 10 | We shall call them phonetic elicitors of semantic traits . |
| 11 | ‘ No , I would n't call them traditional . ’ |
| 12 | He was musing that the synthetic religions of Stalin and Hitler should neither of them ‘ properly be called pagan , but if you do call them pagan then we must say that they 're inferior as religions to genuine primitive pagan religion ’ . |
| 13 | Could n't call them classy , but they are up there also … |
| 14 | ‘ Why do you call them bouncing handbags ? ’ |
| 15 | My niece , Alison , who has left wing views , would call them smug and pompous . |
| 16 | In the twentieth century , history has suffered to some extent in terms of its general significance in relation to people 's interpretations of life , because we now have a whole generation of politicians who , and statesmen , if you can call them such , who know very little history at all . |
| 17 | Yeah they do n't call them other than beige and white and . |
| 18 | And the hearing public , finding it difficult to understand them , will always call them dumb . |
| 19 | But either one of these and what we 've already put up you ca n't really call them positional isomers cos the basic carbon skeleton is different . |
| 20 | And when I go to Wales for a holiday and there are Welshmen , they 're just as good as I am , some can sing so much nicer , and I 've worked with Scotsmen in engineering factories , and there 's no better engineers than Scotsmen , but they do n't necessarily call them British . |
| 21 | I mean they got a lot better living what we got and and and they was alright but the the you know you 'd never call them bloated capitalists because they were n't bloated really . |
| 22 | It 's that , really , that makes people call them crazy . |
| 23 | Every so often they 'll need to diet again , but you would n't call them fat , and you certainly would n't call them losers . |
| 24 | ‘ In a word , I 'd call them old-fashioned . ’ |
| 25 | In the medium term , more over seventy fives , the elderly — or shall we call them old , no the elderly — erm and when the people of course were born in or around nineteen sixty four are sixty in the twenty twenties and twenty thirties , a lot of older people again . |
| 26 | We do n't go out to gather potatoes we go to hunt taters And the East Mainland do n't say that at all they would call them more tatties or taties |
| 27 | And oh , on the corner of there was er , er ti whatsername er what do you call them these things what sell curtains and stuff like that ? |
| 28 | And Naomi makes the mistake , do not call me pleasant , call me bitter for the almighty has dealt very bitterly with me . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't call me daft ! ’ she said , but she was a travesty of her usual bossy self . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't call me that , Elsie , I 'm not a brothel-keeper . ’ |