Example sentences of "[noun] call [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guards called him Fou-Fou and me Andy . |
| 2 | Freud calls it masochism . ’ |
| 3 | She thought : If only there was a Jonah calling me M'Lady and running frightful risks chasing after spies all across Europe in a great Bentley . |
| 4 | ‘ The enemy calls them Fokker D.VIIs , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Highly imaginative as they were , all three gentlemen called it Sauce for Boiled Lobster . |
| 6 | I remember this time after school there was a fight between blacks and whites ; I went and stayed in the toilets for a half-hour thinking what I should do and that 's when I really took a look at myself and thought about the white kids calling me names and the black kids saying ‘ come on ’ so I said ‘ all right ’ . |
| 7 | Rakovsky called him Little Father and Ivan called him son . |
| 8 | And Sir Alf Ramsey called them animals . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose , ' ’ Rab said , but he hardly felt the better ; not , with hobo drinkers , they looked at him and the tattooed barman called him Stick . |
| 10 | Took her months to call me Ken and she says Mister Reynolds when she 's got company . |
| 11 | it 's a misnomer to call it Europe |
| 12 | ‘ Well , do n't in future call me Richard . |
| 13 | ‘ Dentists call them Ribena fillings , though they could be caused by any of the big branded drinks , ’ said dental consultant Aubrey Sheiham . |
| 14 | Although the authors call them letters they are in fact a form of communication we call prayer . |
| 15 | Transformations that leave shape and size unaltered are obviously the most basic , and geometers call them isometries . |
| 16 | When Atropos , who snips the threads of life , misses one thread she cuts another , and we who do not know why one thread is missed and another cut call it Fate , Kismet or what we will . |
| 17 | My parents called me Glen after the bandleader who took one too many cross-channel flights Swing was the music they 'd grown up with and courted to . |
| 18 | ‘ When I was born my parents called me Mikhail Holovich . |
| 19 | Now I feel it is very hurtful when you have a boyfriend and when he finds out he does n't want to know in case the child calls him Daddy . |
| 20 | I HEARD LITTLE PRINCESS CALL HIM DADDY |
| 21 | The old bleed — overseer called me Jess after his dog as died that day . |
| 22 | ( Knollys was not a relation , but most of the village called him Uncle out of respect . ) |
| 23 | because Gavin called it Bubbles |
| 24 | I was also charmed that one lady called me Rosemary Clooney ! |
| 25 | At first General Powell called him General Noriega then , after some consideration , changed it to Mr Noriega . |
| 26 | But I shall expect film directors to call me Sir Anthony . |
| 27 | Here it 's called awareness , in dance call it sensitivity , sensitivity to what is happening around us with the ability to react sometimes at great speed . |
| 28 | Very few people , ’ he concluded , ‘ have seen the Picts and because of their colouring , size and silent ways , it is easy to understand why folk call them pixies , goblins or elves . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ His grandchildren call me Auntie , and I love looking after them when they come . |
| 30 | Mathematically , an almost insignificant amount of living things in Florida call it Florida . |