Example sentences of "to call [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | C they used to call them the horse boxes . |
| 2 | In one sense , all the genes in a body are ‘ parasitic ’ genes , whether we like to call them the body 's ‘ own , genes or not . |
| 3 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 4 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 5 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 6 | Oh to get your bargains oh yes they would n't , there were n't really good fridges in those days , there was co col cold rooms but erm they would be glad to get rid of the meat that they 'd already got cut up you see , and the barker , they used to call them the barkers , standing outside you see and get your fresh meat and so on , so on , so on , so you know and er to get the custom in you see , oh there was real competition between the barkers and there were barkers standing in road . |
| 7 | For my purpose I should like to call him the man in the jury box , for the moral judgement of society must be something about which any twelve men or women drawn at random might after discussion be expected to be unanimous . |
| 8 | We used to call him the Butcher . ’ |
| 9 | My mother used to call him the Sage in bloom , ’ she added , ‘ when he was chasing women , that was . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I sha n't wait till Adam returns , ’ Lewis said in that manner that had once led his daughter to call him the Frog Footman , |
| 11 | And er the old man , they they used to call him the iron man and he was the iron man . |
| 12 | The girl — it seemed sarcastic to call her the bride — was wearing a cheap costume in lilac that looked stiff and new . |
| 13 | Now Saturday night in Street , we used to call it the waits , Street waits , every Saturday night . |
| 14 | I used to call it the back of actually . |
| 15 | They used to call it the asylum , years ago . |
| 16 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I used to call it the spook walk . |
| 19 | ‘ It was so Irish to call it the Half House . ’ |
| 20 | Piper had started using Red Indian names for its aircraft and when it inherited the ‘ poor man 's Dakota ’ from Stinson the double fin and rudder layout was replaced with a single one and it was decided to call it the Apache . |
| 21 | Though he prefers to call it the Hospice Coast to Coast , ramblers have already nicknamed the route Clapperton 's Way . |
| 22 | Its inhabitants liked to call it the Woldopolis and to regard it as the hub of life in that part of the East Riding . |
| 23 | The trophy became known as the Gordon Bennett Cup , although he preferred to call it the Coupe Internationale . |
| 24 | Are we supposed to call it the Lowfields as before or carry on using ‘ The New East Stand ’ ? |
| 25 | I understand that the Prime Minister wants to call it the opt-in clause . |
| 26 | All His Own Work could have been the title of Stephen Coonts ' book , instead he chose to call it The Cannibal Queen ( Century Publishing , 344pp , illus , hbk , £16.99 ) . |
| 27 | In fact , they used to call it the gun for the wild ducks do you see . |