Example sentences of "[pron] called it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 2 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |
| 3 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 4 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 , |
| 7 | They called it the old comedians |
| 8 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 9 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 10 | 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 . |