Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] call " in BNC.

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1 I thought it would have got better by itself — it was my son who made me call the doctor ’
2 As Josephus says : ‘ They also do not value dying any kind of death , nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends , nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord … ’
3 What d' ya call something that goes round and round a planet ?
4 What d' ya call it
5 Well I shall go because if that fella 's been from , if that fella said I did n't have a job I 'll be jumping up and down like a what d' ya call it !
6 What d' ya call the whingies then ?
7 See Margaret was going to be , be erm what d' ya call it ?
8 Missy , what d' ya call her ?
9 what d' ya call it , kind of
10 with er , what d' ya call it , Barbara you know ?
11 Cos I 'm an , what d' ya call it ?
12 D' ya call Stockton people as Geordies ?
13 ‘ What d' you call him your Dad for then ? ’
14 ‘ What d' you call that disorganised scramble ?
15 ‘ What d' you call this poncin' pap then ? ’ he raged , ‘ I ca n't eat this muck . ’
16 " What d' you call a missel thrush down your way ? " he asked John .
17 ‘ Anyway , I thought it was the Last Rites they gave you when you were dying , what d' you call it , Extreme Unction ? ’
18 ‘ Lord save us , d' you call that old ?
19 " Luck , d' you call it ? "
20 What the blazes d' you call it again ? "
21 Now Father Dalby over at All Souls , Bayditch — he organizes dances with this — what d' you call it — Rock and Roll ? — for the young people of his parish on Sunday evenings .
22 " What d' you call that , Stephen ? "
23 ‘ It 's snug enough here , I 'll grant you , ’ said the first nome , ‘ but all this stuff you get outside , what d' you call it , begins with an N — ’
24 Since he got obsessed with this American nonsense — what d' you call it , demolition ? — he 's gone right off his head .
25 I forgot er I have n't watched the television at all and I forgot to record what d' you call that thing ? with the devil in it ?
26 That 's a different one , that 's the one with erm , what d' you call it , Goldie Hawn .
27 Let me call in as assistant instructor none other than Mr Graham Greene , with the advice I have already mentioned from one of his books of autobiography .
28 Let me call a doctor , Emily , ’ Charlotte said .
29 Let me call the Commander 's office ’ , the guard said .
30 And he had pigs ' eyes , was all that she could think as he said , ‘ Let me call you back , ’ into the phone and then cradled it before standing and , still holding her arm and not much caring about how it would hurt , moving to close the office door .
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