Example sentences of "she called [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She called her Fran . ’
2 She called her Cal — usually it was Caroline , disapproving .
3 One was her husband , Sidney — she called him Proopsie , and refused him sex through much of their 53-year marriage .
4 He did n't really like the way she called him Nigel — it was as if he was a stranger .
5 I noticed on your card she called him Daniel David and then behold he 's going to be just Daniel .
6 ‘ I 'm sure she called him Magnus , ’ Miss Honey said .
7 She too feared Albert , she called him Mr. — , she treated her brutally , often beating her .
8 She called him Jack for short .
9 She called him Aspirant , ’ said the man , shaking his head and stuffing his handkerchief back into the pocket of his coat .
10 She called him Linton .
11 She called him Roukoubé , which means Red Bear Cub : by accepting the curse Sycorax had laid on him , she meant to deflect it .
12 She called him Fred while he addressed her as Gladys — names which they picked from the Spike Milligan radio shows .
13 Oh Dick , she says to me , she called she called me Dick and I used to tease her .
14 In her incensed whisper she called me names I did n't understand .
15 ‘ And then , when he brought the lady … no , she was n't a lady , she was just a woman , and her voice was common and she called me duckie and … and I said to them , ‘ I 'm going to scream . ’
16 ‘ I called her Mrs Horbury , she called me Mr Lawrence , ’ he said .
17 She called them girls but many were women whose working days went back to the Utility dresses and khaki battle-dress .
18 She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ .
19 She called it Art Through the Ages .
20 She called it Charley going incognito .
21 She called it desertion and I often suspected that there was another man . ’
22 She called it infatuation — an illusion which could destroy us both .
23 She called you Jenny . ’
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