Example sentences of "decide to call [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His well-being is of even higher importance to Scotland now that Peter Dods , such an admirable understudy with 23 caps , had decided to call it a day . |
| 2 | ‘ The director 's finally decided to call it a day , ’ he said . |
| 3 | They had decided to call it a day , that was all . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | John and Maureen decided to call it a day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He decided to call it a day after doctors told him he had lost the other testicle . |
| 8 | Although we broke even , we could not pay our wages and decided to call it a day ’ . |
| 9 | She decided to call it a day . |
| 10 | By 1 p.m. we had another forty-five sheep on deck and decided to call it a day . |
| 11 | For health reasons , 69-year-old decided to call it a day on March 19 after working for five years in the semi-moist processing section . |
| 12 | The Indians ran out of arrows — they decided to call it a day |
| 13 | When I decide to call it a day , they 'll stop too . ’ |
| 14 | Chapman says : ‘ I often wonder what will become of Forest when Brian Clough decides to call it a day . |