Example sentences of "called themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in London at different times there have been groups which have called themselves the Society of Twelve , the Seven and Five , and One/Four . |
| 2 | Before I 'd joined they 'd called themselves Strand — after the Roxy Music song ‘ Do The Strand — and The Swankers but both these names were well past their sell-by date by the time I arrived . |
| 3 | Some of the men in GLF had called themselves feminist , as had the Mao-ist men at Skegness . |
| 4 | The name makes some sense as an enduring survival of bronze age Cretan influence , but we must not lose sight of the fact that it was Evans who gave the Minoan civilization its name and not the Minoans : they almost certainly called themselves something completely different . |
| 5 | We also need to know why some biologists who were suspicious of natural selection called themselves ‘ Darwinians ’ — and why others were so determined to develop alternative theories . |
| 6 | Yet these were all women who , ten years ago , would have called themselves liberated , independent , ambitious . |