Example sentences of "and called it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hector called to all the people , " Come and share my treasure trunk , " And all the silly sightless people Came and looked … and called it junk . |
| 2 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 3 | In the fourth century the Romans enclosed seven acres of land and called it Banovallum — walled place on the Bain . |
| 4 | He established a township around the mills for his workers and called it Mossgiel , after the farm at Mauchline . |
| 5 | ‘ He had made a deadlock and called it peace ’ . |
| 6 | Paraphrasing Tacitus and Byron , the Visitors ' Centre has the last word on Bloody Cumberland : ‘ he created a desert and called it peace . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ All ‘ Progressives ’ … believed in them , and called it Euthanasia ’ , characteristically exaggerating a sensible point with ‘ all ’ . |
| 8 | In 15BC the Romans established a settlement on this very spot , no doubt with its commanding strategic position in mind , and called it Turicum . |