Example sentences of "they call [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They call them battered babies now , I do n't think we did then . |
| 2 | Erm as a result they call them weightless networks which we actually hate because they 're not weightless . |
| 3 | I think they call them flash backs do n't they or something . |
| 4 | He said , ‘ Well , I suppose this is what they call our ultimate destination . |
| 5 | Now they call it defensive driver training and er what we 're really talking about is safe driving , nothing more and nothing less . |
| 6 | so I says it 's going , now as far as the , er , what they call it that fella that come to did that job |
| 7 | At the moment , Mrs Thatcher and her ministers are playing the role they seem to like most , that of school bully — they call it strong government . |
| 8 | what they call it desperate dye faces |
| 9 | You know they do But anyway the point I was making was that they call it distant intimacy . |
| 10 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 11 | First you grow your flowers , and then you have to cut them and then display them , now I call that flower arranging , but here , they call it floral art , and you can understand why . |
| 12 | they call it this week , it changes names every week |