Example sentences of "called [pron] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Called me a murderer . |
| 2 | Called me , he 's called me a college crappy , he goes why do n't you go back , he goes , why do n't you go back to college , you college crappy . |
| 3 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |
| 4 | Almost called you a witch there but I stopped just in time because it 's not |
| 5 | I 'm sorry I once called you a pig . " |
| 6 | Called you a slut ? |
| 7 | ( Remember the story of the small boy who asked why his French visitor called something a shoe when it was obviously a cabbage . ) |
| 8 | She had called herself a drab . |
| 9 | She had wanted to stay with her brother , but he had called her a child , he had referred to Tallis as the woman whom he loved , and Morthen had taken both statements to her young heart . |
| 10 | That was why he had called her a witch . |
| 11 | He had called her a leprechaun , thought she must have Irish blood in her . |
| 12 | No one had called her a leprechaun before . |
| 13 | Mrs Abigail , she 'd told Lavinia , had called her a fool that morning just because she dropped a tin plate when they were doing Meals on Wheels . |
| 14 | She did not care that he 'd called her a whore . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He 'd called her a Burrows whore , a soulless hag . |
| 19 | He had sworn at her , jeered at her , called her a lump of cold batter , told her to get to the devil , told her that he was sick of the sight of her , that he had married her for her money , that if she gave him any more of her canting preaching he 'd hit her one that she 'd remember . |
| 20 | She was so vulnerable to him that part of her was already accepting that defeat was inevitable , that only Luke could be the one to end their affair , but at the same time pride was demanding resistance , refusing to submit to the humiliation of a physical surrender to the man who had called her a liar , accused her of infidelity — the man who had hurt her so badly . |
| 21 | Often there would be some drama : Razia , the loudest and most ebullient of Chaman 's chelas would be wringing her hands and weeping because her new boyfriend had gone off to Ajmer or because Chaman had called her a tart or because her pet goat had gone missing ; she always suspected her neighbours were planning to slaughter it . |
| 22 | Berserk with rage , he had called her a slut and worse and demanded the name of the father . |
| 23 | Others have called him a blend of ‘ Merle Haggard filtered through Bruce Springsteen ’ or quite simply ‘ a hell of a talent ’ . |
| 24 | No one could , with justice , have called him a layabout . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 27 | Gary could remember with utter clarity the first time that some other kids had called him a Spade . |
| 28 | Louise at the height of their row had called him a shit . |
| 29 | Some have called him a drunkard and assume that he saw puce poetry instead of pink elephants . |
| 30 | I 'd have called him a mother 's boy . |