Example sentences of "calling he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tixier-Vignancour declined to be described as ‘ anti-semitic ’ ( he once sued Sam White of the Evening Standard for calling him this ) but he was in no danger of winning a ‘ righteous gentile ’ award . |
| 2 | Maybe it was for that reason that the party leader singled Mr Prescott 's past year performance out for praise in an interview in The Sunday Correspondent yesterday , calling him , chummily , ‘ Johnny ’ . |
| 3 | As Professor Housman used to say , ‘ Stand on a barrel in the streets of Baghdad and say twice two are four and ginger is hot in the mouth and therefore Mohammed is the prophet of God , and it is unlikely that anyone would question your reasoning ; but if he should be bold enough to do so , you could easily silence him by calling him a Christian dog . ’ |
| 4 | Mind you , Malcolm did take the piss out of him as well , calling him Troy Tempest in a leather jacket . |
| 5 | Later , when they came to know each other better , the pupil might graduate to calling him ‘ Lewis ’ , but this would be in the case of intimates . |
| 6 | ‘ Early on in the State Department , we took to calling him the rent-a-colonel , in tribute to his ability to simultaneously milk the antagonistic intelligence services of Cuba and the US , ’ said Mr Francis McNeill , a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs . |
| 7 | He likes all that , the cars and people calling him Minister , but he wanted her to be the good politician 's wife , doing his entertaining . |
| 8 | He did n't like her calling him old , though . |
| 9 | More than that , it had served to prove yet again that Sweetheart was quite justified in calling him worthless and good-for-nothing . |
| 10 | ‘ No , not really — — what are you calling him ? ’ |
| 11 | He directed it at Mr Brown , calling him childish and accusing him of launching the sleaziest-ever attacks in US politics . |
| 12 | Only Waylon Jennings wears a cowboy hat , but Willie Nelson 's bandana and grey pony-tail make him an obvious Indian scout , Johnny Cash wears the frock-coat of a gambler and Kris Kristofferson 's cut-off T-shirt suggests his pardners will be calling him ‘ Junior ’ well into his sixties . |
| 13 | There was a violent row in the Bundestag , for instance , when the SPD leader , Kurt Schuhmacher , attacked Adenauer for cosying up to the enemy by calling him ‘ the Allies ' Chancellor ’ in 1949 . |
| 14 | Above all , he took the future trade union leader seriously , answering his incessant questions , and calling him proudly the ‘ queerest bairn he had ever known . |
| 15 | She would imagine calling him up to her room every night before he went home to bed with a man , and taking her silver hairbrush from her desk and brushing his hair out like a daughter 's , one hundred strokes every night . |
| 16 | An example of this occurred in the Nick Kent piece where Geoff Travis described a sardonic and disgruntled Mark E. Smith antagonising a visibly shaken Morrissey by calling him ‘ Steven ’ . |
| 17 | Herbert Cranko used to tell a story about a very dark-skinned man named Cranko turning up one day in his Johannesburg office , calling him uncle and announcing that he was short of money . |
| 18 | Paul gets deeply drunk at a New Year 's Eve party , where those friends who already have children get wheezily maudlin and dilate on the sheer cost of small kids versus the sheer joy of small kids ; while those who do n't have kids elbow him constantly , calling him a bit of a sharp-shooter , a devil , a sperm-bank , a prong , a peopler of nations and an irresponsible git . |
| 19 | A Jewish chronicler attributed the success of the expedition entirely to the youthful Ensign , calling him for the first time ‘ Cidi ’ , the equivalent of Mio Cid ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 20 | In a slurred voice he blamed Docherty calling him ‘ a liar and a bullshitter ’ . |
| 21 | From the moment of his arrival at Carewscourt , Durkin adopted an over-familiar attitude towards Carew , calling him Alec , trying to give the impression that they had known each other for years . |
| 22 | Dumpy , down-to-earth Nellie faced facts and realised people would spot the difference in age between herself and Robert , so decided to confuse them all by calling him her adopted son . |
| 23 | ‘ We ca n't go on calling him Fido , ’ she said , that being the Grimbles ' choice . |
| 24 | Neither did he hear Zach repeatedly calling him from outside or the sound of his footsteps running up the tiny pathway to the back door . |
| 25 | John Stuart Mill 's essay on Coleridge clearly indicates the wide extent of this influence , calling him one of the ‘ great seminal minds of England ’ . |
| 26 | The only complication , from my point of view , is how on earth we refer to one another — ‘ boyfriend ’ is n't serious enough , ‘ lover ’ sounds too exclusively sexual and ‘ partner ’ , which is what I generally end up calling him , makes it sound as though we 're in business together . |
| 27 | On Stukeley 's arrival at Stamford in 1729 Peck wrote to him calling him ‘ President of Black Hall , Peterborough Hall , Sempringham Hall , Durham Hall and Vaudey Hall ’ . |
| 28 | A SMART sales rep persuaded a thief to return her stolen car by calling him on her mobile phone . |
| 29 | Various documents later describe him as ‘ Charles Titford ’ , with the ‘ William ’ entered later as an afterthought , or they settle for calling him ‘ Charles William Titford ’ instead . |
| 30 | He spat out more venom at his father ( to Theo ) , calling him narrow-minded , emitting rays of darkness from his breast — against him , the angel of fiery light — and by his clergyman 's vanity creating error and confusion in the house . |