Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb pp] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Economist called it the Consumer-Credit Snowball and pronounced it well and truly rolling . |
| 2 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 3 | Burnett 's favourite preparation for the treatment of uterine tumours was Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum so not having the LMI gave her the 6C potency in a 10ml dropper and within 3 days she was relieved of the discomfort on walking and standing which it seems reasonable to assume is due to the fibroid shrinking . |
| 4 | The wags dubbed it the second Tamworth Manifesto . |
| 5 | The villagers called it The Mansion and viewed it and its formal garden of still and silent yew trees with awe . |
| 6 | The blame for syphilis was invariably ascribed to foreigners , with the result that the English called it the French disease , the French called it the Italian disease , the Italians , unable to make up their minds , called it both the French disease and the Spanish disease , while the Spanish called it the disease of Hispaniola ( Haiti ) . |
| 7 | First on the scene , a showy horse , a Palomino — the locals called it the cardboard horse . |
| 8 | The jury awarded him the libel raspberry — a halfpenny — so he was forced to pay for the whole action . |
| 9 | The driving force behind the Plazas was undoubtedly Ethel ; to some extent she relished knowing that the Girls called her the slave driver behind her back : |
| 10 | When an anti-tubercular campaign was initiated by the cell , the peasants called it the ‘ tubercular tax ’ , because money gathering methods were applied . |
| 11 | The ancients called it the God of the Underworld . |
| 12 | The blame for syphilis was invariably ascribed to foreigners , with the result that the English called it the French disease , the French called it the Italian disease , the Italians , unable to make up their minds , called it both the French disease and the Spanish disease , while the Spanish called it the disease of Hispaniola ( Haiti ) . |
| 13 | The company called it the most significant announcement in its personal computer history , adding that it had two aims : firstly , to become the number one in personal systems in Europe ; second , to be the number one supplier and implementor of choice for client-server technology . |
| 14 | The blame for syphilis was invariably ascribed to foreigners , with the result that the English called it the French disease , the French called it the Italian disease , the Italians , unable to make up their minds , called it both the French disease and the Spanish disease , while the Spanish called it the disease of Hispaniola ( Haiti ) . |
| 15 | The Romans called them the ‘ Picti ’ or Picts , the ‘ Painted People ’ . ' |
| 16 | And eventually the bakers nicknamed it the Belsen camp . |
| 17 | A man whose late father was a subscriber sent me the Electrophone programme for the month of May 1924 . |
| 18 | Of course , being a boy made it the more difficult , it would not be as easy , but it had begun to seem to her not impossible to keep in touch with Pen wherever he was . |
| 19 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 20 | He 's fourteen in July I think , what 's a name gave me the dates and I never ruddy well look at them . |
| 21 | Being a Governor gave him the right to know details of any child 's parentage , but in his case the necessity to study the books had never arisen . |
| 22 | A man called him the devil , some parents shouted ‘ We Want Joe ’ and the talk was all about condoms , AIDS and innocence . |