Example sentences of "call [pron] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The other boys keep calling me a big cissy , ’ sobbed John , ‘ and hitting me ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He screamed at me , calling me an evil bitch who had tried to trap him ’ |
| 3 | He screamed at me , calling me an evil bitch who had tried to entrap him . |
| 4 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 5 | ‘ They have called me a rotten apple , which , coming from them , I take as a compliment , ’ he says . |
| 6 | Still , the two parties have moved towards the round-table talks that both want — although the government calls them a multi-party conference , whereas the ANC looks forward to an all-party congress , to be followed eventually by an elected constituent assembly . |
| 7 | So , so are the kind of reasons why Moscavisi calls them the black books . |
| 8 | In she comes for her pension , takes it without a by-your-leave then calls me a bloody wog and tells me to go home to where I come from . ’ |
| 9 | Miss Eames calls me an old-fashioned word : Dunce . |
| 10 | ‘ I used to love listening to Elvis records , which helped me pick up the lingo , and now everyone in the business calls me the Rocking Singh . |
| 11 | Erm , my mother calls me the eternal student because I tell her that there 's absolutely no way I 'm gon na look for full time employment ! |
| 12 | A congressional committee has been inquiring into why Augusto Pinochet junior , who calls himself an international arms adviser , received cheques worth nearly $3m from the army , apparently for his share in a rifle factory , and whether the old general knew his son stood to benefit . |
| 13 | Robin Reid , a betting shop manager from Runcorn who calls himself the Grim Reaper , guaranteed his country 's first boxing medal . |
| 14 | Calling himself a former pupil of J. T. Desaguliers [ q.v . ] , |
| 15 | Its leader , Alex Salmond , has lately taken to calling himself a Social Democrat , but this week his deputy , Jim Sillars , was again proclaiming full-blooded socialism . |
| 16 | ‘ Should we allow a member who has narrowly avoided bankruptcy to keep on calling himself a chartered accountant ? ’ |
| 17 | The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) . |
| 18 | SERVANT : My lady , a gentleman calling himself the noble Spaniard waits to see you . |
| 19 | The anti-democratic movement , which calls itself the anti-tribal movement , is considering widening the net in its search for suitable replacement students . |
| 20 | A pressure group , which calls itself the Coordinating Committee on Depo-Provera , has submitted 400 pages of evidence to the appeal panel , which began hearings this week . |
| 21 | Colquhoun tormented Barnsley with his pace and skill and last night admitted : ‘ It hurts when you hear people calling you a bad buy . |
| 22 | The AFO now called itself the Anti-Fascist People 's Freedom League ( AFPFL ) and its general secretary and political spokesman was Thakin Than Tun . |
| 23 | His own group called itself the Free Conservatives , set up an office to rival that of the official party , and supplied money and professional assistance to rebels at by-elections . |
| 24 | That mister at hospital calls you a little lady . |
| 25 | Amanda just called you a super piss head ! |
| 26 | An anonymous caller to a newspaper claimed that a ( previously unknown ) Islamic fundamentalist group calling itself the Islamic Movement had killed Ucok because of her secularist and feminist stand against the current fundamentalist campaign for the veiling of women . |
| 27 | On June 23 a group calling itself the Islamic Liberation Front threatened to carry out terrorist attacks against the Kuwaiti government unless it cancelled the death sentences . |
| 28 | They had been arrested on Dec. 17 and held at the premises of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance in Abidjan accused of the possession of documents supporting a group calling itself the Democratic Convention of African People , material considered hostile to the Eyadema regime . |
| 29 | There was brawling at the Republicans ' conference in West Berlin in July 1989 and in mid-October a splinter group calling itself the Democratic Republicans of Germany ( Demokratische Republikaner Deutschlands ) was formed in Hannover . |
| 30 | Other incidents included explosions on April 2 and 3 , 1989 , which caused damage at the British Cultural Centre in Kizilay ; a group calling itself the Revolutionary Left claimed responsibility . |