Example sentences of "called it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 2 | Who called it the slug ? |
| 3 | Well lost property , I already touched on , that was one of my jobs and then erm , we called it the ticket book , that was for want of some other name I suppose . |
| 4 | Have one foot on a ladder or the other stack stuck into the f into the into the erm face of stack and then you would struggle and work yourself underneath what w we called it the trinkling . |
| 5 | Tusser called it the goef , and we can be sure that , like the word , the design of the barn itself and the work that went on in it had hardly changed from the sixteenth century to within living memory . |
| 6 | The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K. |
| 7 | And we called it the man-killer because we had ridge and furrow land down there , and this darn thing they was taking , and nothing would come over the top for ages , and suddenly the whole lot would come over on top of you , of course it as well , and you had to that 's what we were doing . |
| 8 | They called it The Shrine — even then secular sanctity was in vogue ! |
| 9 | And we called it the bull because it did n't cry , it sort of bellowed . |
| 10 | Iain called it The Prison , and he began breaking out at weekends , finding his way back to Pinner , and Jacqueline 's flat . |
| 11 | Stephens called it the curve of least exertion , a design that was mathematically perfect for the use to which it was put . |
| 12 | Clatting the neeps and in Aberdeen they called them yowing And y We had your clatt as the yow they called it the hoe , the yow They cleared the Did that to the drill . |
| 13 | Ryan called it the Iron Maiden . |
| 14 | They called it the drill hall then it 's now the community centre but it 's the drill hall . |
| 15 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 16 | Oh yes , it was at the Strathmore Arms at Hury , and we called it the Show Room , and sometimes the Hut . |
| 17 | James Joyce called it The Wine of the Country . |
| 18 | ‘ They called it the Blitz . ’ |
| 19 | They called it the deal of the decade . |
| 20 | And they called it the number one . |