Example sentences of "call i " in BNC.
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| 1 | She started calling me a thief and it all went on from there . ’ |
| 2 | I made my way up to the lobby with those final two words of hers ringing around inside my head , and all sorts of other doctor phrases started to enter my mind — people calling me Doctor Streeter , popular songs with the word doctor in them — and then all of a sudden I started to cry . |
| 3 | The next day in school all my mates started calling me Ginger . |
| 4 | He 's been calling me up all hours of the day and night complaining about you guys especially Steve . |
| 5 | I told him they ai n't weeds , but proper plants like , but he still keeps on calling me Billy Weed . |
| 6 | It struck me that in calling me his heavenly brother he had gone straight to the heart of all our missionary endeavours . |
| 7 | ‘ And you better start calling me Mum , ’ said Gloria . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's the baiting … calling me upstairs when he 's down , and down when he 's up … and then thinking it 's a bit of … a joke … and that kind of thing . ’ |
| 9 | I adored the way you made your feelings quite clear by calling me Du instead of Sie ! |
| 10 | If you could go back to calling me Du you would be more honest about our relationship and oblige Your obedient servant , Sophie Arandt . |
| 11 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 12 | He kept calling me James ; somehow I could not call him Alec . |
| 13 | Why is she calling me darling ? thought Henry . |
| 14 | Calling me home , home through the fog . |
| 15 | I told Mum that kids at school were calling me ‘ Nigger ’ . |
| 16 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 17 | ‘ Calling me a sissy . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But where did you get that bit about Gay Times calling me ‘ the most gorgeous man in British football ’ ? ’ |
| 19 | But please do n't keep calling me your ‘ Czech ’ mate . |
| 20 | Morning by morning in my regular reading , which at the time was in the Song of Songs , I heard the Lord calling me to a new stage in ministry . |
| 21 | In another store one sales assistant stopped short of calling me stupid when I commented that a certain guitar was n't to my taste and a bit cheap-looking . |
| 22 | She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train . |
| 23 | This is not good , what you are doing , calling me back like this . |
| 24 | She said later : ‘ I gave the officer a ticking-off for calling me love . ’ |
| 25 | I believe God is calling me to full-time service . |
| 26 | Why , only yesterday the king was speaking with me , calling me his little daughter-in-law and patting my hand as was his wont . |
| 27 | Calling me ‘ your Holiness ’ was McIllvanney 's joke . |
| 28 | ‘ All these young girls were calling me , from way out in the projects ! |
| 29 | All these girls were calling me , from way out in the projects ! |
| 30 | They 've been calling me a baboon and shit . |