Example sentences of "called it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To distinguish it from the medieval part of the college which hugs the splendid fifteenth-century cloisters , they called it New Buildings . |
| 2 | Having a mind untrammelled by convention he offered the names ignose or godnose , but the editor of the Biochemical Journal would not accept either of them , so because the vitamin had the same empirical formula as glycuronic acid he called it hexuronic acid , leaving its structural chemistry to be determined later . |
| 3 | Foo says it was twice as big as anything else that day , which would make it sixty to seventy feet from base to crest ; some called it eighty feet . |
| 4 | was a digestive tea , they called it Digestive Tea in those days . |
| 5 | Carl and his brothers were playing up around Jackson , Tennessee , and we called it honky-tonk music . |
| 6 | And his two escorts had shrugged and sympathised , and called it bad luck . |
| 7 | They called it smoked salmon and I immediately concluded it was some sort of rich man 's herring . |