Example sentences of "call [pron] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within days of the report 's appearance , the Labour Party — after a two-years study that inevitably consulted many of the same people as the prince 's working party — announced a very similar plan , calling them Newton Institutes . |
| 2 | Kenny 's thinking of calling them Ken Coats after himself . |
| 3 | We started calling them Ronnie but it got a bit confusing . |
| 4 | Why do they keep calling me Sarah . |
| 5 | All the time I worked for him , he seemed to be calling me Hancock , Harris or Hopkins — Hockin , or more often Bruce , on the days he was less vague and preoccupied . |
| 6 | Stop calling me Eric . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Why are you calling me Hummingbird , not Hummy ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For instance , in the hospital they were calling me Mrs , because er the stigma er , is so much , and I mean er , I even get called a single parent and I 'm not ! |
| 10 | I keep thinking I 'm going to get stamped on , even when the clots are calling me Franz . |
| 11 | Do you really expect me to believe that it 's out of respect for my position that you insist on calling me Mr Vass ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I want you to stop calling me Mr Scott , ’ he advised her blandly . |
| 13 | Well , he keeps calling me Mr Robbie , because , for some reason , he thinks I resemble this silly character . |
| 14 | Do n't try distancing yourself from me by calling me Mr Calder . |
| 15 | He kept calling me James ; somehow I could not call him Alec . |
| 16 | I told him they ai n't weeds , but proper plants like , but he still keeps on calling me Billy Weed . |
| 17 | ask her about , she was calling me Sharon on the train cos I was wearing a skirt , she 's going oh Sharon , she was drunk |
| 18 | ‘ And we can make a start by you calling me Niall . |
| 19 | ‘ You do n't normally go round calling me John all the time . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And by the way , suppose you start calling me Melissa ? |
| 21 | They gybed , and slewed round into Derek and Mrs Derek , who was screaming , ‘ Stop calling me Leo ! ’ at her husband . |
| 22 | We do n't mention Lucker 's gaff with calling me Julie . |
| 23 | ‘ Stop calling me Miss Cornflower — it 's quite stupid , ’ she hissed furiously . |
| 24 | And for heaven 's sake stop calling me Miss Chester . |
| 25 | The others all called me Sillie Sissie Willie . ’ |
| 26 | They 've never called me Harry since that time . |
| 27 | ‘ You always called me Ben . ’ |
| 28 | You 've always called me Emma . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ When I was born my parents called me Mikhail Holovich . |
| 30 | My parents called me Glen after the bandleader who took one too many cross-channel flights Swing was the music they 'd grown up with and courted to . |