Example sentences of "[pron] called [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I called you the Bony Lady . |
| 2 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 3 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |
| 4 | ‘ She called him the former proprietor . |
| 5 | And then — she called me the Lost Prince , but supposing there is another Lost Prince ? |
| 6 | We called them The Big Ones . |
| 7 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 8 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 11 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 12 | Twenty-five years later , when Thérèse and Léonie at last began to talk to each other about that time , they called it the odd summer . |
| 13 | Years ago they had all these narrow looms , about this size , and this is where women worked , they called it the narrow section , and maybe mostly for hotels or you know , in the olden days they had stair , your mother 'll probably , stair runners or holes and the , the carpet just went like that and there 'd be a piece of lino up the side , |
| 14 | They called it the old comedians |
| 15 | All the same it was hard to restrain her pleasure when he called her the following evening . |
| 16 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 17 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 18 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |