Example sentences of "have called [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE wife of killer Michael Sams has called him a ‘ lying bastard ’ and said she was divorcing him after he revealed the full extent of his crimes . |
| 2 | stockings and suspender belt and the Marquis of Blandford 's father has called her a , a slutty little something or other |
| 3 | Hooker David Spiers , who played against Fiji and New Zealand , has called it a day long with lock John Robertsen , who was injured against France after appearing in the opening win over Fiji . |
| 4 | The American golf historian Herb Warren Wind has called it the greatest bunker shot in all championship play . |
| 5 | Job cuts are almost certain to follow and a former Dowty director has called it the worst day of his life . |
| 6 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |
| 7 | He 'd called her a Burrows whore , a soulless hag . |
| 8 | She did not care that he 'd called her a whore . |
| 9 | I 'd have called him a mother 's boy . |
| 10 | In this Style File ( perhaps we should have called it a Riff File ) we will look at some of his best known parts , as taken from his extremely successful ‘ Reckless ’ and ‘ Waking Up The Neighbours ’ LPs … |
| 11 | And er I think some people might have called it a slum , I suppose they were in a way . |
| 12 | Okay , well maybe we could have called it a day now . |
| 13 | Many a player would have called it a day then ; not Audley . |
| 14 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
| 15 | You could have called it the year of their persecution : |
| 16 | They should have called it the charge of the bike brigade . |
| 17 | Mediaeval theologians would have called it an incubus : racing was Jackie 's devil , his familiar , and it had to be cut out , exorcized . |
| 18 | At Balliol , where the prevailing Broad Church theology was quite counter to his own , he studied with a succession of brilliant tutors , who recognized the independent , unconventional cast of his mind ; Benjamin Jowett [ q.v. ] was reputed ( probably wrongly ) to have called him the star of Balliol . |
| 19 | He was supposed to have called her a cow , or something worse , and she had slapped his face , at which , according to George , he had returned the blow . |
| 20 | They 've called it the Fellowship of Christian Spiritualists of 24 Stranraer Gardens , and they have a lot of fun , singing and dancing and playing the tambourine in the back room downstairs . |
| 21 | But they 've called it the house ? |
| 22 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 23 | His classmates had called him a sissie because he had never dared to dirty himself by climbing a wall or joining in any of their rough-and-tumble games . |
| 24 | Gary could remember with utter clarity the first time that some other kids had called him a Spade . |
| 25 | Edward could not be typical of his friends , but I remembered that Clive had called him a friend to verse , and that he had read my work . |
| 26 | Louise at the height of their row had called him a shit . |
| 27 | ‘ Wild ’ , Omi had called him the night he arrived , a wild boy , and now another dimension had been added to that figure from long ago : cruelty — a cruel boy … . |
| 28 | Rufus had called her a waif and Adam had immediately ridiculed this word , said it was a romantic novelist 's word , so they had looked it up in Hilbert 's Shorter Oxford Dictionary and found illuminating things . |
| 29 | Berserk with rage , he had called her a slut and worse and demanded the name of the father . |
| 30 | He had called her a princess , and vowed that she was every bit as beautiful as her mother , and he would n't know ( such would be his terrible dilemma ) where to bestow his heart . |