Example sentences of "he called the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An 'e called the police ? ’ |
| 2 | In 1971 he was asked to organise , at the Tate Gallery , an exhibition which he called The Essential Cubism . |
| 3 | Fifty-five years later , Hans Berger , a psychiatrist working in Jena , reported similar fluctuations in humans and discovered that , in a resting subject , this electroencephalogram ( EEG ) oscillated at a regular eight cycles a second , a pattern he called the alpha rhythm . |
| 4 | He called the existing policy-making system as one ‘ designed for the 1920s which is wilting under the television lights of the 1980s ’ . |
| 5 | Then he told me about chaology , which he called the new buzz thing . |
| 6 | He called The Sacred Dance ‘ an excellent study of primitive religious dances ’ , and read how these were performed round sacred trees , but also ‘ how often with the decay of old faiths the serious rites and pageants … have degenerated into the sports of children ’ . |
| 7 | He called the selection of the Interim Council of the PICAO a ‘ travesty ’ . |
| 8 | He called the roll . |
| 9 | Picking up the radio handset , he called the exercise to a halt . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , was advised when he called the elections that his Congress Party was likely to win some 70 seats in the south . |
| 11 | Two thousand years ago , the biblical farmer was tormented by tares and Virgil was denouncing what he called the lazy thistle . |
| 12 | With his tie awry , an alert pair of eyes sparkling behind gold-rimmed spectacles , he impressed the party by coming to the point rather than indulging in what he called the prefabricated speeches he had always hated . |
| 13 | He called the Nobel decision ‘ gross interference in China 's internal affairs ’ . |
| 14 | Geoff Mulcahy , Kingfisher chief executive , detailing the Woolworth , Comet and B&Q group 's £460million offer , said Dixons faced a ‘ bleak future ’ in its present form and he called the 120p a share he is bidding ‘ very serious for a business in serious decline . ’ |
| 15 | No sooner had James Watkins released what he called the ‘ first edition ’ of his national energy strategy ( NES ) on February 20th than the verdicts were delivered — in nice sound bites . |
| 16 | He called the speech that upset George Bush ‘ an appeal from a Hashemite Arab to all honest Arab and Muslim leaders ’ . |
| 17 | But he called the next one , too . |
| 18 | He was slightly anti-semitic , so he called the girls , who were from an exclusive private school , ‘ little Jewish princesses ’ behind their backs . |
| 19 | One of the field commanders , Edgar Chamorro , continually nagged by Fernandez to get into Nicaragua and fight , at last decided to venture 30 metres inside to attack a border post ; heavy fire drove him back and , retreating to a pay phone , he called the CIA in Langley , Virginia and asked them to send mortars . |
| 20 | He called the heron a ‘ crane ’ , for real cranes , sacred birds to the Celts , have long been extinct in Ireland . |
| 21 | Again , as early as 1969 , it was Glenn Gould who , having seen some of the early Karajan/ Clouzot films of orchestral and choral music , rejoiced at their imaginative refutation of what he called the ‘ proscenium psychology ’ . |
| 22 | Dr Armstrong Davison , captivated by the legend like so many others , began on the prosecution side , convinced by what he called the ‘ orthodox belief that Mary was a wanton and a murderess ’ . |
| 23 | Hunt 's main claim to fame these days is his two-year term in prison for a particularly nasty libel — he called the Prince Regent ‘ a fat Adonis of 50 ’ . |
| 24 | When he called the 1974 general election , Mr Powell felt he could not support his party . |
| 25 | When the botanical writer John Worlidge described it in 1676 , he called the fruit ananas , a Brazilian dialect word , but went on to call it a ‘ fruit like a pineapple but much bigger ’ . |
| 26 | He called the election behind in the polls and kept his nerve despite some polls last week suggesting Labour had a seven-point lead . |
| 27 | He called the show ‘ a British tourist 's view ’ of black American music . |
| 28 | In the Wallowa valley , Old Joseph tore in two the piece of paper he called the Thief Treaty . |
| 29 | Chairman Mao , the very dominant Communist leader of China , was so annoyed at Khrushchev , particularly over his co-operation with the U.S.A. over the setting up of the hot-line , that he called the U.S.S.R. |
| 30 | He called the other teachers in the room and they ran after Mould as he bounced higher and higher . |