Example sentences of "they call it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 2 | ‘ They called it the Blitz . ’ |
| 3 | And they called it the number one . |
| 4 | They called it the deal of the decade . |
| 5 | They called it the drill hall then it 's now the community centre but it 's the drill hall . |
| 6 | They called it The Shrine — even then secular sanctity was in vogue ! |
| 7 | Clatting the neeps and in Aberdeen they called them yowing And y We had your clatt as the yow they called it the hoe , the yow They cleared the Did that to the drill . |
| 8 | They call it the strut now . |
| 9 | They call it the Winter Game … and those that follow the form from Kelso to Kempton … from Wolverhampton to Wincanton reckon its the hardest game of all … |
| 10 | They call it The Linny , and Sidney lives in one of the big new houses . |
| 11 | It used to be the south east midlands , now it 's classed as the south midlands but Bedford , twenty one miles along the road there , and they call it the south . |
| 12 | ‘ They call it the death zone because above there the human body does n't restore itself any more , it 's always deteriorating . ’ |
| 13 | key number they call it the number er |
| 14 | Our Lady was seen by many people , and they call it the shrine of Our Lady of Carns . |