Example sentences of "called [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the same thing with Zeppelin — no-one ever called them a heavy metal band . |
| 2 | Disciplinary committee doubled ban , he called them a ‘ bunch of idiots ’ and announced his retirement . |
| 3 | Lord Goff referred to multidisciplinary partnerships as ‘ most objectionable ’ , and Lord Griffiths called them a ‘ profound mistake ’ . |
| 4 | Their demands , which were repeated by students demonstrating in Gaborone on March 10 , were rejected by the President who called them a " gross over-reaction " . |
| 5 | They called them a sheath sheath . |
| 6 | Their first white visitors , William Clark and Meriwether Lewis , who ‘ discovered ’ the tribe in 1805 , called them the Chopunnish . |
| 7 | Brown Owl had put all three into the same Six and called them the Ghillie Dhu . |
| 8 | The critics levelled the charge that Arsenal 's successes were based only on their ability to buy players , and called them the ‘ Bank of England ’ team . |
| 9 | He also taught the mandolin to four small girls and called them the Fairy Four . |
| 10 | We called them The Big Ones . |
| 11 | The Virginia Company had itself produced a subsidiary company which occupied the islands at first known officially as Somers Islands — though when Shakespeare wrote The Tempest some people already called them the Bermoothes , and Bermuda it remained for posterity . |
| 12 | They have taken a selection from their Cordillera , Appalachian , and Outback lines , adapted the harness to suit a women 's figure and called them the Nanda Devi range . |
| 13 | The stockings they knitted went on to the feet of the British Army , and so great was the demand and so determinedly was it met that the Romantic writer Southey called them the " Terrible Knitters of Dent " , terrible meaning not bad but fierce , terribly good . |
| 14 | Elsewhere , the main instrument for this capture of control by the notables — an English diplomat called them the gentry — was the election of Juntas . |
| 15 | So that stuck and eventually when that place folded and we came over here , er we just called them the Dollies and that was , they were referred to , everybody knew who they were , |
| 16 | It grew to be a sort of gang , and we always called them The Gang when we talked about them privately , Anna and I. I felt so sophisticated and intellectual talking about Rimbaud and Baudelaire at two in the morning , to handsome young men with scholarships to the Sorbonne . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | My mother was hysterical and my father called me a lot of unpleasant names . |
| 19 | Later on in my career , again in the press , he called me a ‘ sheltered athlete ’ who kept away from the main opposition . |
| 20 | ‘ Bill called me a couple of days ago . |
| 21 | ‘ He called me a name and I called him a name , ’ said Ditka . |
| 22 | They called me a Frankenstein , but his ambitions go further . |
| 23 | One of the older guys called me a nigger , and he influenced the others so that they all started calling me it . |
| 24 | ‘ Ai nt no VietCong ever called me a nigger , ’ was his simple , but penetrating , reason for not accepting the draft for which he was stripped of his world title and forced into inactivity for three years ( only to return from adversity and carry on boxing , often successfully , for world titles until aged 38 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyway , 'e told me ter get out an' called me a lazy so-an'-so so I stuck one on 'im . |
| 26 | He called me a usurer , which was the first time I 'd heard the word , paid me back £1.20 after four weeks , paraded at weekends in his new shirt , and we were friends thereafter . |
| 27 | Marius called me a ‘ mukis keele ’ , which meant ‘ soft boy ’ or ‘ mother 's boy ’ in his native tongue . |
| 28 | Far as I remember he called me a nasty name and I slapped his wrist . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Now you go to the same playgrounds and schools where people called me a fag for being an actor and everybody as a Screen Actors Guild card falling out of their pocket . |
| 30 | ‘ I was puzzled when a paper recently called me a ‘ bread head ’ . |