Example sentences of "[noun sg] was call [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jeep was called SuSu and her name was painted with Salah 's , rather romantically , on both doors in intertwining calligraphy . |
| 2 | The cafe was called Mary 's Pantry , blacked out , but when he went in the place was bright with Christmas decorations and holly . |
| 3 | This boat was called Dream Baby , and she was clearly an expensive infant for rods and whip-aerials and outriggers splayed from her upperworks like the antennae of some outlandish insect . |
| 4 | Then he remembered that the vicar 's sister-in-law was called Penelope — but why should she sent him a card ? |
| 5 | On closer inspection it turned out the bar was called La Detente . |
| 6 | Christopher 's potter friend lived in a farmhouse and the nearest village was called Bourg de Visa . |
| 7 | The foal was called Bonfire and was splendidly nosy and confident and trod delicately all round him pretending that he was lying on the sweetest grass in the field . |
| 8 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 9 | He persisted , and discovered that the little boy was called Grégoire . |
| 10 | The young girl was called Anne-Sophie Mutter , whom Karajan took with him to Oxford for his special thank-you concert in the Sheldonian Theatre and whose career has developed formidably since 1977 . |
| 11 | Jane 's immediate boss was called Bertram Tinker . |
| 12 | The infant was called Ann . |
| 13 | The headline band was called Girl With A Blue Guitar . |
| 14 | I think the band was called World Service or something . |
| 15 | The site was called Torness Point . |
| 16 | Their teacher was called Miss Honey , and she could not have been more than twenty-three or twenty-four . |
| 17 | Moreover , his father was also called George , and so was his grandfather , and he christened his eldest son George , and his grandson was called George also . |
| 18 | In Uruguay the first journal was called Ferrocarril ( ‘ Railway ’ ) , although its content had little or nothing to do with railways . |
| 19 | The shop was called Russell 's and was opposite the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh . |
| 20 | — The fisherman was called Amadou . |
| 21 | Following a couple of years in covers bands , Friedman 's first serious group was called Deuce . |
| 22 | The son of Poseidon and Amphitrite was called Triton , and was usually represented as half-man , half-dolphin , holding in his left hand an upright dolphin that suggests an erect penis . |
| 23 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 24 | The day was called Spear Pie Feast . |
| 25 | The man in charge of this Sheffield Amalgamated Society junior get-together was called Tom Johnson ( not to be confused with the old Sheffield United footballer of the same name ) . |
| 26 | This short-lived ( until 1892 ) but enthusiastic enterprise was called Kenton & Co. and was obviously modelled on Morris 's own firm . |
| 27 | I had no idea that Chris Bastard 's wife was called Lavender . |
| 28 | Of course there was still love , there was healthy , growing love and its name was called Work . |
| 29 | THERE were several scary moments in Home Run ( BBC 1 ) , a thriller by Andy Armitage , but few as terrifying as the early revelation that the central character was called Billy English . |
| 30 | This new bond was called conditional ( upon training ) or conditioned . |