Example sentences of "as he call [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These ‘ schemata ’ , as he calls them , comprise the strategic elements of the organism 's elementary transactions with the world . |
| 2 | He sees in mankind two conflicting beings : the culminating ape and the artificial man , as he calls them . |
| 3 | Some of the ‘ weeds ’ , as he calls them , are national rarities . |
| 4 | However , what disturbs me most is Hartley 's total disrespect for the ‘ ancients ’ as he calls them , and the musicians who use and love these products , and ours . |
| 5 | This cottage industry , according to Jay , originated because kids ( as he calls them ) were alienated from the corporations . |
| 6 | Wittgenstein 's answer to the question with which we began is that the psychological verbs , as he calls them , are ‘ characterized by the fact that the third person of the present is to be verified by observation , the first person not ’ . |
| 7 | Thomas ( 1923 , p. 38 ) nicely overstates this point in relation to his postulated needs ( or ‘ wishes ’ as he calls them ) : |
| 8 | But these ‘ evils ’ , as he calls them , are seen by many novelists to have their advantages . |
| 9 | It 's not hard to see why Twigs , as he calls her , would want to drag this slim six-footer off the street . |
| 10 | In fact , thanks largely to Sir Robin Day — ‘ the Grand Inquisitor ’ , as he calls himself in the title of his new book — the impression that the average viewer probably has of politics on television is that it is predominantly adversarial . |
| 11 | Darras and his wife live in English , as he calls it , one of his sons in German and when they go down the street , they live in French . |
| 12 | ‘ I wish we could persuade that young skinnymalinks above in the shop to come too , but he 's determined not to trespass , as he calls it . ’ |
| 13 | In this his second publication of poetry , or as he calls it ‘ making the bastards suffer ’ , Bitumen has produced a well rounded collection of spite , venom and malicious slander . |
| 14 | But though his mind was , and remained , romantically anti-Establishment , at once Catholic and mildly left-wing , his fiction never seemed impelled by any serious desire to alter the social system of a nation from which , after the war , he was willingly an exile , and his arguments concern rather the writer 's alleged duty to refuse all favours from the state — even ‘ the bourgeois state ’ , as he calls it — and to live in romantic independence , royalties apart : surviving ( in Joyce 's famous phrase ) by silence and cunning . |
| 15 | The family was able to buy first the supermarket in Lordship Lane — or as he calls it , ‘ Hardship Lane ’ — then a string of other stores including a wholesalers business . |
| 16 | He denies that there is a single professional-managerial class ( or as he calls it the service class ) , but instead he sees it as being split in two . |
| 17 | If voluntary organisations expand , especially if largely in receipt of public money , they tend to take on all the disadvantages of size and age — bureaucratisation or ‘ creeping formalisation ’ , as he calls it . |
| 18 | Johnson had told Mrs Thrale a little of the four-hundred-year history of Raasay ( or ‘ Raarsa ’ as he calls it ) — and then he divulged that Bonnie Prince Charlie ‘ was hidden in his distress two nights at Raarsa , and the king 's troops burnt the whole country , and killed some of the Cattle ’ . |
| 19 | His parole , as he calls it . |
| 20 | He says privatisation , or denationalization as he calls it , will make the railways run better . |
| 21 | His main criticism of society is that it is hypocritical , or ‘ phoney ’ as he calls it . |
| 22 | four eyes , as he calls it , is gon na get |
| 23 | He 's his partner in crime , as he calls it . |
| 24 | Who had Stephen Gould has asserted that , as a result of the work of this group and others , a new , as he calls it , paradigm of evolutionary biology is in the making and the so-called near-Darwinist paradigm in which I was raised , and in which my students are raised I suppose if I 'm honest is , you know , due for the dustbin . |
| 25 | Thus , in this diagrammatic representation of photography , fashion is also shown in the curious mirror devised for it by Cindy Sherman , and advertising returns a regard shaped by the " electronic scissors ’ — as he calls his camera — of Richard Prince . |
| 26 | Wolfgang and his sister Nannerl remained on close terms throughout his life : his early letters to her and to a Salzburg cousin , Anna Maria Thekla ( ‘ the Bäsle ’ , as he called her ) are full of juvenile high spirits , spiced with an earthy , often indelicate sense of humour , while his later letters to his sister show a touching solicitude for the state of her health and spirits . |
| 27 | She cleared away , made coffee , then tapped on Penry 's door , opening it warily as he called her in . |
| 28 | Bruce was not so lucky , but in this particular year , he had a good week with his stock prices and could afford to lose a few shillings on the nags as he called them . |
| 29 | He spoke with all his habitual power of his recent follies ‘ abberations from prudence ’ as he called them — and of his resolve now ‘ to be as sober and rational as his most sober friends could wish ’ . |
| 30 | First he distinguished the extroverted person from the introverted one — attitude types , as he called them . |