Example sentences of "call [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " No , they heard you call me a dirty name . " |
| 2 | My niece , Alison , would call me a bourgeois revisionist , but if that 's what I was then I was content . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't call me a fucking dumbo . ’ |
| 4 | I suppose you could call me a born optimist . ’ |
| 5 | I did n't call you a stupid bastard , did I ? ’ he yelled in exasperation . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , Bully , ’ cried Angela happily , holding the alsatian 's great head between her hands and putting her face close to his , ‘ I 'll never call you a bad dog again . |
| 7 | So I suppose we might call you a grown-up child , if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 8 | " I mean , I did n't call him a black bastard or anything ? " |
| 9 | ‘ You can call him a realistic kind of Labour Party man who works with capitalism , ’ says William Wolff , once leader of the party . |
| 10 | He was only getting him little gigs here and there and you would n't call him a dynamic person . |
| 11 | " We might call him an old shellback , if you think that 'd go down better , instead of an Ancient Mariner . " |
| 12 | You can call it a delayed action , if you like , but it is never the former . |
| 13 | I would call it a holding offence ! ’ |
| 14 | Yes , why do n't we call it a BLACK HOLE . |
| 15 | You ca n't really call it a positional isomer as such |
| 16 | You may indeed call it a temperamental difference , but I venture we are talking about something rather more . |
| 17 | You could call it a bad year . |
| 18 | ‘ But no one could call it a lucky house , could they ? ’ |
| 19 | Actually he did n't call it a third round , since he did n't solicit new entries but used the same 63 as for Round 2 . |
| 20 | You ca n't call it a National Anthem , because it covers the the twelve or more states of the European Union , as it is now , and do you know what that is , the the Anthem for the European Union . |
| 21 | Perhaps next time you could surrender and call it a tactical strike without arms . ’ |
| 22 | In the very first episode I did , we fitted that onto a wobbling camera tracking in ( today you 'd call it a hand-held shot ) and , together with a sucker cup sticking out into shot , it gave you an impression of the thing lumbering towards Barbara down a passage . |
| 23 | Building societies and banks have finally abandoned their secrecy and pretence over their ‘ inspection ’ and do not call it a structural survey any more . |
| 24 | If we 're gon na call it a blameworthy accident . |
| 25 | The high-relief figure — one could hardly call it a three-dimensional effigy — is placed on a plain black ledger lying on the floor , and appears as a body rising vertically from the grave . |
| 26 | ‘ Let's call it an extra prize for this term . ’ |
| 27 | I shall call it an experiential explanation , because it is in terms of our experiences . |
| 28 | ‘ Would you call it an intellectual audience , Herman ? ’ |
| 29 | Let him call it an English fief if he will , it makes no difference to the truth , it 's but a word . |