Example sentences of "[adv] called [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that stuck and eventually when that place folded and we came over here , er we just called them the Dollies and that was , they were referred to , everybody knew who they were , |
| 2 | The Virginia Company had itself produced a subsidiary company which occupied the islands at first known officially as Somers Islands — though when Shakespeare wrote The Tempest some people already called them the Bermoothes , and Bermuda it remained for posterity . |
| 3 | It grew to be a sort of gang , and we always called them The Gang when we talked about them privately , Anna and I. I felt so sophisticated and intellectual talking about Rimbaud and Baudelaire at two in the morning , to handsome young men with scholarships to the Sorbonne . |
| 4 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
| 5 | I nearly called him the chairman of the Tory party — I apologise . |
| 6 | They actually called me the green-eyed monster . |