Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was call [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cavalryman , who was called Lord John Rossendale , was staring at the sumptuous decorations in the supper room where the long tables were draped in white linen and thickly set with silver and fine china . |
| 2 | ‘ Uncle ’ Hardy had no direct heir , but left Letheringsett to his sister 's son , who was called William Hardy Cozens . |
| 3 | Last night , the newest bard , who was called Lorcáin , had sung : a song to God , and one to the King . |
| 4 | So he was the first person who united the states of Castille and Leon , and the first who was called King of Castille ; for till this time the lords of that country had been called Counts . |
| 5 | We 've amused ourselves a little bit by putting William 's initials on there and the arms of his wife who was called Joan . |
| 6 | The girl with the ribbon , who was called Tess , turned red and said quickly to her friends , ‘ Father 's tired , that 's all . ’ |
| 7 | At that time he owned supply wagons contracted to the army and he was at Fort Thomas when this boy who was called Ish-kay-nay was brought in with some prisoners . |
| 8 | William was left a red chest of Flanders by his grandmother who was called Alice in fourteen twenty nine . |
| 9 | We had our final assembly on the last day of term , there were four of us leaving and the headmaster who was called Mr Smith presented us with a book each . |
| 10 | One of his friends who was called John ‘ she heard during the introductions , was as beautiful as Larry , but dark as a panther , cool as a wooded river . |
| 11 | Indeed , she would have liked to tell him about her father who was called Nigger Everard at school and spurned in his own family because his mother had been Creole ; she wanted to tell him about Feeny whom she loved ; how she herself was a musty , could n't he see it ? |
| 12 | It is odd , and neatly illustrative of the contradiction in Spartan attitudes , that Herodotus can say of the Spartan-led Greeks in the same period that Samos ‘ seemed to them as far away as the Rock of Gibraltar ’ , while telling elsewhere in his book of a Spartan , son of Archias , who was called Samios because of his father 's Samian links ( viii . |
| 13 | Then I asked the administrator , who was called Lucy ( I was right about The Beatles ) , what the real form was on Sal 's case . |
| 14 | It was run by two balding , bespectacled men in their late thirties , neither of whom was called Largo , whose extensive knowledge of antiques had made it one of the most popular and profitable shops of its kind in the whole canton . |