Example sentences of "[verb] called him [art] " in BNC.

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1	THE wife of killer Michael Sams has called him a ‘ lying bastard ’ and said she was divorcing him after he revealed the full extent of his crimes .
2	She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive .
3	I 'd have called him a mother 's boy .
4	At Balliol , where the prevailing Broad Church theology was quite counter to his own , he studied with a succession of brilliant tutors , who recognized the independent , unconventional cast of his mind ; Benjamin Jowett [ q.v. ] was reputed ( probably wrongly ) to have called him the star of Balliol .
5	Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap .
6	His classmates had called him a sissie because he had never dared to dirty himself by climbing a wall or joining in any of their rough-and-tumble games .
7	Gary could remember with utter clarity the first time that some other kids had called him a Spade .
8	Edward could not be typical of his friends , but I remembered that Clive had called him a friend to verse , and that he had read my work .
9	Louise at the height of their row had called him a shit .
10	‘ Wild ’ , Omi had called him the night he arrived , a wild boy , and now another dimension had been added to that figure from long ago : cruelty — a cruel boy … .
11	Some have called him a drunkard and assume that he saw puce poetry instead of pink elephants .
12	No one could , with justice , have called him a layabout .
13	Others have called him a blend of ‘ Merle Haggard filtered through Bruce Springsteen ’ or quite simply ‘ a hell of a talent ’ .

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