Example sentences of "to call [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group that Portes subsumes under the heading of a dominant class are internally divided , but have enough in common for Portes to call them a class . |
| 2 | Yes then , if you wish to call me a spy , then that is what I am . |
| 3 | I 'll get your sentry room to call me a taxi . ’ |
| 4 | The worst aspect is my worrying — my brother and sister used to call me a worrywart because I 'm always so anxious . |
| 5 | ‘ Shall I get them to call you a cab ? ’ — she asked . |
| 6 | I was just going to call you a bitch . |
| 7 | If Pollard 's architecture is so disposable and flippant that it is odd to call him a ‘ patron ’ , Palumbo 's patronage is so single-minded that he can hardly be called a developer . |
| 8 | As for Brian Redhead , a BBC radio presenter who had the temerity to call him a conspiracy , ‘ His failure to apologise meant that he never got another interview with Mrs Thatcher as prime minister . ’ |
| 9 | Furthermore , I do not see that fastening a label from ancient philosophy upon Wordsworth — in this case to call him a ‘ Pantheist ’ — is particularly helpful ; we are simply consigning him to a museum of dead ideas . |
| 10 | Well he does to me , and I 'll thank you not to call him a bastard ! ’ |
| 11 | He 's my oldest friend , so I 'm allowed to call him a great pedant . |
| 12 | Goes mad when you have to call him a cockney . |
| 13 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 14 | John and Maureen decided to call it a day . |
| 15 | By 1800 hours we are able to call it a day . |
| 16 | It took 30 minutes of argument , a great deal of soothing of apparently hurt professional pride , and not a little money to persuade Chela that it was time to call it a night , alone . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you want to call it a night ? ’ asked Surkov , perhaps hopefully . |
| 18 | Agreed to call it a night . |
| 19 | When the botanical writer John Worlidge described it in 1676 , he called the fruit ananas , a Brazilian dialect word , but went on to call it a ‘ fruit like a pineapple but much bigger ’ . |
| 20 | Though he rejoined the race a few minutes later , Albers , who won the opening round of the series at Donington , was forced to call it a day four laps later . |
| 21 | To call it a remarkable sight is to set it against today 's standards . |
| 22 | Polls suggested that up to one in four Conservative MPs wanted her to go before the next general election : growing numbers of backbenchers were prepared openly to declare that the time had come for her to call it a day . |
| 23 | So he agreed to call it a day . |
| 24 | Vosper Hovermarine prefers to call it a surface effect ship . |
| 25 | Two years and two back operations later he has been forced to call it a day . |
| 26 | Actually it would be more accurate to call it a tutor ‘ hut ’ since our class is based in one of those ‘ temporary ’ classrooms that sprouted up around schools all over the country about twenty years ago . |
| 27 | A desperate mix of pride and masochism would have kept me wallowing around until dark , but I was forcefully persuaded to call it a day . |
| 28 | VIZ magazine creator Chris Donald is right when he says it might be time to call it a day . |
| 29 | Nothing much doing at the pond , they had set the rods up and were wandering around , looking for frogs and newts , then they returned to their rods ; nothing stirred , so around 10pm they decided to call it a day . |
| 30 | Chapman says : ‘ I often wonder what will become of Forest when Brian Clough decides to call it a day . |