Example sentences of "[pers pn] call [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I called you the Bony Lady . |
| 2 | It seems to have a mind of its own , and I call it The Great One . |
| 3 | Oh I call it the posh shop . |
| 4 | It 's the kind of place best avoided after dark ; it makes me think of poor Moley , and Ratty 's warning , and that 's why I call it the Wild Wood . |
| 5 | She calls it the magic flannel and says : ‘ Mummy you 'll be fine . |
| 6 | I said well , why do n't you call me the proper name , is it a ? |
| 7 | ‘ She called him the former proprietor . |
| 8 | And then — she called me the Lost Prince , but supposing there is another Lost Prince ? |
| 9 | Oh yeah , I love the , the mixed of border you call it the mixed of border no , yes ? |
| 10 | And that 's because the third world is bigger than any other section whether you call it the first world or second world or whatever , and I think the first and second put together . |
| 11 | We called them The Big Ones . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 14 | We call it the Conscious Paradigm . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 17 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 , |
| 20 | They called it the old comedians |
| 21 | They call her the Regal Lily . |
| 22 | They call her The Green Goddess , and Queen of the Greens ; they like to photograph her in supermarkets against the Ecover , looking wholesome and fresh , youthful but still somehow serious . |
| 23 | yeah , I mean in Ireland they , fair enough , they call it the unionist party |
| 24 | set up , which started at Adams and we used the American mission near Lovedale well it was a part of Lovedale and erm , now , now it 's at er , they call it The Federal Theological Cemetery |
| 25 | in , in wha what is Jordan really , not what was Jordan , what is Jordan they call it now , they call it the occupied territories it seems to clean it up if you call it that . |
| 26 | They call it the Little Vestry . ’ |
| 27 | it was still in the sixties , they call it the swinging sixties , I mean I did n't see anything swinging in the sixties at all , I did n't think it was swinging , but er and they do n't like now the swinging sixties and I think really it was then that er people did er branch out to new ideas . |
| 28 | ‘ No wonder they call us the black Irish ! ’ |
| 29 | All the same it was hard to restrain her pleasure when he called her the following evening . |
| 30 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |