Example sentences of "[conj] called [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he goes that 's that fucking arsehole that called you a slut is n't it ? |
| 2 | Her brother was disgusted and called her a filthy collaborator , but at least the Englishman was safe . |
| 3 | Now and again , he could be militant : when Lady Astor gave a speech in which she suggested that ex-servicemen should wear arm bands to warn people that they might have venereal disease , my father shouted her down and called her an ex-chorus girl . |
| 4 | Everyone laughed , and the captain clapped me on the back and called me a good fellow . |
| 5 | Sometimes he was angry with me and called me a ‘ hard little thing ’ or ‘ a cruel spirit ’ , but I preferred that to being called ‘ my darling ’ . |
| 6 | The Oxford public orator of 1960 commended him for all he had done in persuading Oxford undergraduates to a reasonable faith and called him a most penetrating interpreter of the New Testament and a very powerful bulwark of Mother Church . |
| 7 | Buddie had been very angry , but everyone else had laughed at Frankie and called him a snivelling cissy . |
| 8 | Foreign observers sniggered and called him a basketball player . |
| 9 | No wonder his chairman , Sam Hammam , has hit the roof and called him a mosquito brain . |
| 10 | Eventually I fell on my knees and called him a fucking bastard , and he just laughed . |
| 11 | And eventually rap rapped his face and called him a effing person like , you know , it 's |
| 12 | Brown Owl had put all three into the same Six and called them the Ghillie Dhu . |
| 13 | The critics levelled the charge that Arsenal 's successes were based only on their ability to buy players , and called them the ‘ Bank of England ’ team . |
| 14 | He also taught the mandolin to four small girls and called them the Fairy Four . |
| 15 | They have taken a selection from their Cordillera , Appalachian , and Outback lines , adapted the harness to suit a women 's figure and called them the Nanda Devi range . |
| 16 | He wrote again , a careful , stilted letter , expressing gratitude for the help he had received and suggesting they shook hands and called it a day . |
| 17 | They calculated the distance around the earth , then took a fraction of this measurement as their unit of length and called it a metre . |
| 18 | They attacked the regressive structure as ‘ disconcerting and tiring ’ ( TLS 1960:673 ) , and called it a misuse of the author 's talents ( Hartley 1961:74 ) . |
| 19 | In the end he slippered Pickerage and called it a day . |
| 20 | For himself he built a hotel on the corner of the ancient Coal Road West Auckland Road and called it the Alma . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , 'e told me ter get out an' called me a lazy so-an'-so so I stuck one on 'im . |