Example sentences of "called it a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Manager Brian Horton called it a criminal performance . |
2 | She called it a good house , because the maid always kept things for her . |
3 | Evans called it a pictographic' script , and its origin is still uncertain . |
4 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |
5 | In the old Tarzan movies they used drums , and they also used natives and the warriors carried a stick , they called it a forked stick and it looks like the assembly might need a new set of forked sticks |
6 | Du Camp in one of his books — I forget which , there were always so many — made a reference to the malign effect on man of too much solitude , he called it a false counsellor who nurses at her breasts the twin infants of Egotism and Vanity . |
7 | He called it a disgraceful situation for a man in a position of trust . |
8 | I thought they just called it a domestic |