Example sentences of "called [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Locals called them ‘ Slippers ’ .
2 The explorers also called them ‘ Pierced Noses ’ , since some of the tribe demonstrated a coastal trait of inserting dentalium through their noses .
3 He has called them here to listen to his news .
4 The salt of the earth , he 'd called them .
5 It thrilled her that he 'd called them that .
6 Raymond Williams has called them
7 Agincourt faces , Jo had called them ; the bony , resolute features of a dynasty which led the people of England for centuries .
8 The geneticist James Crow has called them ‘ genes that beat the system ’ .
9 ‘ A lot of the kids stood on the fringe and would have like to join in , but their friends would have called them puffs .
10 When they reached the sixth form all the ones that would have called them names had left . ’
11 The Romans called them the ‘ Picti ’ or Picts , the ‘ Painted People ’ . '
12 If men and women are faithful to do what God has called them to do and to serve where God has called them to serve , they have a genuinely significant ministry .
13 If men and women are faithful to do what God has called them to do and to serve where God has called them to serve , they have a genuinely significant ministry .
14 While they were worshipping the Lord and fasting the Holy Spirit said , ‘ Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul [ later named Paul ] for the work to which I have called them . ’
15 So it was that in our context ‘ the Holy Spirit said , ‘ set apart for me ’ some sixteen dear brothers and sisters ‘ for the work to which I have called them . ’
16 When planting a new church , therefore , follow the Acts 13 pattern of the laying on of hands with prayer and fasting , and commission clearly the team for the work to which God has called them .
17 Shortly after the birth of the church , when the leaders gathered together to worship the Lord with fasting , the result was that ‘ the Holy Spirit said , ‘ Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them . ’
18 One of the bodices , or blouses as Tamar had called them , was of a deep rose pink and , although the other two were cream and white respectively , all were exquisitely trimmed with lace , embroidery or pintucks .
19 We feel called to help to equip people to function in the mission or ministry God has called them to .
20 Other people had called them ‘ ladies ’ , even that very morning , and had done so without any offence .
21 Pinholes in the sky , he had called them when he was a small child .
22 Reid 's widow called them ‘ Bohemians ’ .
23 Both children stopped playing and looked up to see who had called them .
24 He bent to throw a few pieces of turf on the fire and was reminded that the locals called them sods of turf .
25 He had killed one girl and now , because another was missing , they had come as if he had called them , as if they were his slaves .
26 I 'm pretty sure that someone had called them . ’
27 Donna had called them from Jackie Quinn 's house , telling Jackie there was nothing to worry about .
28 What had Miach called them ?
29 Old reliable Chertro had rightly called them naive and gullible , I thought .
30 Sonia : So why take it out on the black people then , she 's told black people to do many things , she 's even called them monkey .
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