Example sentences of "called it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could have called it the year of their persecution : |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Horne had first made his name on radio in the days when most people still called it the wireless — on another wartime show which supposedly told everything you ever wanted to know about an RAF station . |
| 4 | Jonas called it the family-room , where there were plenty of comfortable chairs and couches and it did n't matter if you put your feet up . |
| 5 | The ancients called it the God of the Underworld . |
| 6 | He 's actually called it the Gazette so we do n't know if it 's political |
| 7 | Early writers called it the battle of Branxton , but Flodden came to be preferred , probably because of balladeers like Sir Walter Scott and Jane Elliott ( The Flowers of the Forest ) . |
| 8 | They used to called it the hump did n't they ? |
| 9 | The blame for syphilis was invariably ascribed to foreigners , with the result that the English called it the French disease , the French called it the Italian disease , the Italians , unable to make up their minds , called it both the French disease and the Spanish disease , while the Spanish called it the disease of Hispaniola ( Haiti ) . |
| 10 | They should have called it the charge of the bike brigade . |
| 11 | The villagers called it The Mansion and viewed it and its formal garden of still and silent yew trees with awe . |
| 12 | Well , a few years back someone else not far away opened a late-night disco and also called it the House of Music ! |
| 13 | But they 've called it the house ? |