Example sentences of "called [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ She called him the former proprietor . |
| 32 | Those who liked the Prince called him Slender Billy , while his detractors called him the Young Frog . |
| 33 | They called him The King of Hell . ’ |
| 34 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 35 | They called him the bamboo man when they finally dared to discuss it . |
| 36 | I nearly called him the chairman of the Tory party — I apologise . |
| 37 | Born Alfredo James Pacino he is still haunted by memories of growing up on the mean streets of New York 's South Bronx where his street gang pals called him The Actor . |
| 38 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 39 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 40 | There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now . |
| 41 | He flitted about on this machine ( which obsessed him ) wearing a helmet and goggles so that Gabriel called him The Invisible Man . |
| 42 | All the same it was hard to restrain her pleasure when he called her the following evening . |
| 43 | They called it The Shrine — even then secular sanctity was in vogue ! |
| 44 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |
| 45 | He called it the ‘ English binge ’ . |
| 46 | My husband and the boys cleared a path through the undergrowth when we first came here , and they called it the Burma Road . ’ |
| 47 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 48 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 49 | Ryan called it the Iron Maiden . |
| 50 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 51 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 52 | Oh yes , it was at the Strathmore Arms at Hury , and we called it the Show Room , and sometimes the Hut . |
| 53 | We called it the ‘ Perfect Connection ’ system , and that really hit the mark too . |
| 54 | The sale of beer by the gaoler in late eighteenth-century Britain was apparently universal — Howard called it the ‘ tap ’ and seems to have regarded it as a necessary evil . |
| 55 | Some time previously , he had discovered a system of cryptography — he called it the ‘ Atbash Cipher ’ — which had been used to conceal certain names in Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean texts . |
| 56 | Iain called it The Prison , and he began breaking out at weekends , finding his way back to Pinner , and Jacqueline 's flat . |
| 57 | Well I 'd one come from Malta to England again , in nineteen sixteen and went on an old boat , they called it the Gurkha . |
| 58 | Stephens called it the curve of least exertion , a design that was mathematically perfect for the use to which it was put . |
| 59 | Tusser called it the goef , and we can be sure that , like the word , the design of the barn itself and the work that went on in it had hardly changed from the sixteenth century to within living memory . |
| 60 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |