Example sentences of "and called [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned for the first time what it was to be a stranger , an immigrant from primitive parts who spoke with a funny accent and called things by their wrong names . |
| 2 | Marjoram grows wild in Britain ; it is O. vulgare , the same species found in Europe , and called oregano in Italy . |
| 3 | On the morning of 18 May 1988 , he hooked up his tape recorder to the telephone at Eurame and called Hurley at the embassy . |
| 4 | This offer was accepted and he was appointed superintendent of the island , which was formally acquired as a British possession on 11 August 1786 and called Prince of Wales Island . |
| 5 | When matters of race are located and called attention to in American literature , critical response has tended to be on the order of a humanistic nostrum — or a dismissal mandated by the label ‘ political ’ . |
| 6 | The summit declaration applauded those countries ' commitment to political and economic reform , and called attention to a continuing programme of visits and contacts . |
| 7 | Jason of Pherai , a descendant of Lykophron ( and called tyrant by Diodorus ( xv.60. 1 ) without equivocation ) was certainly rich ( Polyain. vi . |
| 8 | Gertrude Jekyll ( 1843-1932 ) — G.J. for short and called Bumps by her friends — was fat , friendly and fearless . |
| 9 | Among those responsible for Ælfheah 's death , if Osbern can be relied on , was Hakon , son of Earl Eric of Lade , and called dux by the Canterbury writer because he was later an earl under Cnut . |