Example sentences of "call [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 She mostly calls me by my last name .
2 Because she disliked it so , he found a fleeting pleasure in calling her by her first name .
3 The comrades we have been teaching are very pleasant , but a bit more reticent than elsewhere — the people at Peking and Sian got round to calling us by our first names , but here it 's ‘ miss ’ and ‘ Professor ’ ( or , to give my name in Chinese ) .
4 The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret .
5 And allowing someone to call you by your first name ( 'Please , call me John' ) has the sub-text : ‘ I am higher-status than you are and so can grant you this permission . ’
6 Amiss speculated about why she felt entitled to call him by his first name .
7 For instance , if I have a student in my class old enough to be my mother , is it appropriate to call her by her first name ?
8 pair call me by my first name too as if
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