Example sentences of "[pron] call him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the overly loquacious Lord Macaulay who called him the Smith of Smiths . |
| 2 | ‘ She called him the former proprietor . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you say you call him the boss ? ’ |
| 4 | He looked like a wild thing so we called him the Yeti . |
| 5 | ‘ We call him the Eel … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We call him the Sweeper , ’ explained Kraal . |
| 7 | ‘ We call him the captain , ’ I said . |
| 8 | We call him the boss . ’ |
| 9 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
| 10 | They called him the One-Eyed Guest and Elisabeth recalled how , when she was young , the peasants never harvested a field without putting out a sheaf for Odin 's horse . |
| 11 | They called him The King of Hell . ’ |
| 12 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 13 | They called him the bamboo man when they finally dared to discuss it . |
| 14 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 15 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 16 | There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now . |
| 17 | ‘ They call him the enfant terrible but he 's actually very shy and certainly not arrogant . |
| 18 | They call him the mystery man with a record for his mystery girl ; people have been writing in wanting to know more , women especially , but Amis does n't have the will to respond . |
| 19 | ‘ They call him the undertaker and , my God , it suited him . |
| 20 | THEY call him the ‘ second Ellery Hanley ’ — and the comparisons do n't bother Jason Robinson . |