Example sentences of "[vb mod] to call [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essex is what the old travel writers used to call a ‘ place of contrasting moods ’ . |
| 2 | There , walking down the middle of the shed in the gloom , I espied a dark blue-clad figure wearing what appeared to be what Dad used to call a ‘ steamraiser , , a shiny topped peaked cap . |
| 3 | And partly , on a more mundane level , the puzzle of how a murder could have been committed in what John Dickson Carr used to call a hermetically sealed chamber " is perhaps the most intriguing one in the detection writer 's whole bag of tricks . |
| 4 | And on that side , what we fireplace it used to be what we used to call a boiler , you used to fill it with water and it used to the fire used to heat it for you to take it we used to call what we used to call ladle it out into a a bowl to wash your pots with or wash your floor with or anything with . |
| 5 | Yes well you used to scoop your water out with what you used to call a ladle in them days . |
| 6 | Well it used to be a clothes shop but what you used to call a pawn shop in them days as well . |
| 7 | Not so much what ancient writings used to call a ’ ghost town ’ — more like a corpse town . |
| 8 | It was what they used to call a " banger " and it exploded at my feet as I hurried along the dark passage in answer to the door bell 's ring , making me leap into the air in terror . |
| 9 | But , a another one they used to call a fatty I can remember that even now . |
| 10 | He was what they used to call a bad influence in the school . |
| 11 | And they used to call a meeting and this horse breeding society would have called a meeting you know the ones that looked after choosing the horse they were gon na select for this certain season you see . |
| 12 | He 's what they used to call an alternative comic , although that description is already a bit out of date . |
| 13 | This was the part of the garden they used to call the Jungle . |
| 14 | Steve nodded , ‘ Very wise sir , they used to call the spot under the bridge , ‘ Lover 's Leap ’ . |
| 15 | Harry Dean Stanton is what we used to call the embodiment of anomie , cynical and dried-up , Estevez is dopey and deadpan and the only sane character is a derelict who believes in aliens and that ‘ The more you drive , the less intelligent you are ’ . |
| 16 | It was a family group home and we used to call the staff ‘ mam ’ and ‘ dad ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ They call it hospital now — what we used to call the asylum . |
| 18 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 19 | No , they might be on the dole or what they used to call the Board of Guardians something like that . |
| 20 | The top end of the meadow everybody wanted to rush for that , what they used to call the Wherton bank , that was the best grass , they liked that strip . |
| 21 | HAVING finished second to France , and thereby won what the footballers used to call the Home International championship , Scotland can hardly be grudged the eight players they have in the British Isles task force for the invasion of New Zealand this summer under captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 22 | I mean he went to school , he went to oh school , but he lived at Enfield and erm , you 'd have never thought then that he had got it in him and , so dry I said to dad I said he never ought to be a bus driver , cos the things he comes out with , he 'd have to be a comedian , I mean he 's , I mean as er , what , they used to call the comedians did n't they , three or four of them on the telly , and I mean |
| 23 | The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er |
| 24 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 25 | I did wonder whether we ought to call a , a , a , sort of emergency meeting of Harlow Health Action , but I was away myself until last few days , so it 's difficult to do that , so what we 've are , I 've agreed with Dave , the secretary , we 've produced a leaflet , which is based on one of the Federations leaflet , it gives the reason to be against opting out . |
| 26 | ‘ I ought to call the nurse . ’ |
| 27 | Never having seen Jack suture , she wondered if she ought to call the fascio-maxillary surgeon over from the Norfolk and Norwich , or if she could , indeed , trust Jack to do a decent job . |