Example sentences of "have called [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost as an afterthought , her eyes clouding , she added , ‘ No one has called me that for years . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd called him Chinless Wonder on the same basis that regular enlisted men in the Army call Sandhurst graduates ‘ Ruperts ’ . |
| 3 | It thrilled her that he 'd called them that . |
| 4 | Later in life no one could have called him dull-eyed or sharp-faced . |
| 5 | How could she have called him that ? |
| 6 | Only cynics would have called him stick-in-the-mud or sneered at him being ‘ worthy ’ . |
| 7 | She 'd never have called me Scarlet if she was a good mother . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He could have called me Slim . ’ |
| 9 | His cockney friends would have called it honest endeavour in a dishonest world . |
| 10 | He 'd called their previous alliance interesting , but she would not have called it that . |
| 11 | You could not have called it grey , it was of some colour that had never been given a name , and it glowed as if the moon and stars were behind the skin of it , waiting to break through . |
| 12 | As skipper Ian Butterworth said : ‘ If we had been top after six games you could have called it lucky — but not after 17 matches . |
| 13 | So that 's what we 've called him all day . |
| 14 | So many dyslexic children have been reduced to a state of dreadful anxiety by teachers who 've called them stupid in front of the other children . |
| 15 | Erm , we 've called it Critical Application Software . |
| 16 | ‘ My love , my love , ’ and was flooded by the days she had called him that . |
| 17 | He did not know his age and no one had called him good before . |
| 18 | Someone had called him this more as an insult than a compliment but Francis took a liking to it and you will find salamanders carved all over his palaces . |
| 19 | He was more irritated than angry — irritated that the Commissioner 's Office had called him direct to demand an explanation . |
| 20 | Fry feared the worst when he arrived for training yesterday morning to find his wife had called him three times already . |
| 21 | Ruthie ; it was the first time he had called her that here in Majorca . |
| 22 | Joe had called her some names , and had n't been reassured at all . |
| 23 | Some have called me selfish — but surely those women who leave their jobs to have babies and then return to work are the selfish ones ? |
| 24 | ‘ People associated with the council have called me all sorts of things . |
| 25 | ‘ The reason I have called you both here is to remind you that you are now second-year witches , and I do not expect this ridiculous feud between you two girls to continue . |