Example sentences of "[vb mod] call him [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government are always making predictions , and in that sense the Chancellor may be described as the Mother Shipton — perhaps I should call him the Brother Shipton — of economics . |
| 2 | We 'll call him a tump for short … |
| 3 | He took care of the nation 's finances , Aunt Harriet had said , you might call him the Keeper of the Purse . |
| 4 | I guess we could call him a sound entrepreneur . ’ |
| 5 | We used to call him the Butcher . ’ |
| 6 | My mother used to call him the Sage in bloom , ’ she added , ‘ when he was chasing women , that was . ’ |
| 7 | And er the old man , they they used to call him the iron man and he was the iron man . |
| 8 | He knew if he became angry at being poked at , everyone would call him a savage even more . |
| 9 | I suppose one would call him a hypochondriac , because Dorothy had once told me that her earliest memory was of her father standing in front of the looking-glass saying , ‘ I am a dying man ’ ; her mother 's face had that bearing-up look one sees on the faces of those suffering with their feet . |
| 10 | John must have been so angry , I know that now , he 's still angry , John did n't shout at Dad or anything , or throw a tantrum , he just stood there and looked at Dad and realized the other boys would call him a liar and what could he do ? ’ |