Example sentences of "and call it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It then filters the water several times , treats it , and calls it table water . |
| 2 | Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni . |
| 3 | Stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni . |
| 4 | Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni |
| 5 | He was about thirty years as as erm secretary of the Glen Ayloch gathering and somebody made up a pipe tune and called it Graham 's Tune . |
| 6 | Hector called to all the people , " Come and share my treasure trunk , " And all the silly sightless people Came and looked … and called it junk . |
| 7 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 8 | In the fourth century the Romans enclosed seven acres of land and called it Banovallum — walled place on the Bain . |
| 9 | He established a township around the mills for his workers and called it Mossgiel , after the farm at Mauchline . |
| 10 | ‘ He had made a deadlock and called it peace ’ . |
| 11 | Paraphrasing Tacitus and Byron , the Visitors ' Centre has the last word on Bloody Cumberland : ‘ he created a desert and called it peace . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ All ‘ Progressives ’ … believed in them , and called it Euthanasia ’ , characteristically exaggerating a sensible point with ‘ all ’ . |
| 13 | In 15BC the Romans established a settlement on this very spot , no doubt with its commanding strategic position in mind , and called it Turicum . |
| 14 | It 's just a special , because it 's a special fraction that we use a lot we just give it a special name and call it percentage , but any time someone says to you like er what 's , let's try this one , now you were saying about point seven five and things |
| 15 | They 'll do anything to make you dependent on them , and then they drag you to the altar and call it love . ’ |
| 16 | Once there were three brothers , kings , who decided to build a city and call it Skadar . |
| 17 | lip , foam it with absinthe , and call it wit . |
| 18 | So we read between the lines , take our own meanings from the books and films we are allowed access to and call it camp . |
| 19 | Tacitus records that just before his death the defeated Calgacus denounced the Romans as ‘ Pillagers of the world … to robbery , butchery and rapine they give the lying name of ‘ government ’ ; they create desolation and call it peace . ’ |
| 20 | He did not wish to make a desert and call it peace . |
| 21 | He wondered if he should not give his Ka a name , and call it Taheb . |
| 22 | ‘ Come , Brother , ’ he concluded wearily , ‘ let us tie the ends of this and call it suicide . ’ |
| 23 | Those blessed with a prophetic vision of soccer 's future , like Mike Channon and myself , are often completely ignored or misunderstood , whereas charlatans who would not know one end of a football from another , the Reg Pybuses and Howard Wilkinsons of this world , suck up to mediocrity and call it talent . |