Example sentences of "called the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's what they called the first automatic washer . |
| 2 | There was a loud Boing ! and Trevor did n't say any more to him but just went back and called the first assistant director and said , ‘ I want that monstrosity out of my window . ’ |
| 3 | It happened that he decided to go back and found himself commanding a squadron on operations at about the same time that Salmon and Gluxstein as we called the two German battle wagons , decided to leave Brest , head up through the Channel and escape the wrath of the Navy and whatever airborne effort we could produce in the teeth of extraordinarily adverse weather conditions at the time . |
| 4 | The troupe called the Eight Extraordinary Dancers travelled together in an outdoor uniform that had been supplied : heavy capes , white socks , boots , and , as a symbol of their destination — a beret . |
| 5 | The outgoing parliament or Supreme Council ( Ulemnoukogu — until independence in 1991 called the Supreme Soviet ) held its last session on Sept. 14 . |
| 6 | He also scrapped what he called the complex existing arrangements for taxing employees ' private use of company vans , introducing a simple scale charge of £500 covering both the van and any fuel provided . |
| 7 | When he called the 1974 general election , Mr Powell felt he could not support his party . |
| 8 | He dubbed them cheats , and told them they were swindling their audiences out of what he called the last great procession , when , after the wedding songs had been sung and the dances danced , the characters took their melancholy way off into darkness , following each other into oblivion . |
| 9 | Franco 's propagandists spared no efforts to demonstrate that the international community had at last recognized the rightness of his principles , or to extol what they called the enormous political skill of the man who had foreseen the Cold War years before it became reality . |
| 10 | He was gentle and easy to be with and she liked what Jack called the mad Jewish grin . |
| 11 | Tuesday there was a brochure advertising something called The Magic Realist Book Club and an introductory offer for the record . |
| 12 | As children we called the bright blue , slightly violet-tinged flowers which patterned the grassy lane banks by the inventive name of dove 's foot , after the shape of the deeply-lobed and cut leaves . |
| 13 | ‘ Attention , Lord Mayor , ’ called the bright blue kingfisher . |
| 14 | Our aircraft did n't have enough fuel to make Bangkok , so we called the Thai military base and Kamphaeng Saen and got permission to land . |