Example sentences of "called [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their first white visitors , William Clark and Meriwether Lewis , who ‘ discovered ’ the tribe in 1805 , called them the Chopunnish . |
| 2 | Brown Owl had put all three into the same Six and called them the Ghillie Dhu . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He also taught the mandolin to four small girls and called them the Fairy Four . |
| 5 | We called them The Big Ones . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Elsewhere , the main instrument for this capture of control by the notables — an English diplomat called them the gentry — was the election of Juntas . |
| 10 | 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 , |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Kenny called me the other week to congratulate me the day after I broke Roger Hunt 's club scoring record at Manchester United . |
| 14 | I did n't care if she called me the son of Frankenstein . |
| 15 | They called me the Man-Mountain . |
| 16 | They actually called me the green-eyed monster . |
| 17 | And then — she called me the Lost Prince , but supposing there is another Lost Prince ? |
| 18 | ‘ … the guy called me the minute he got back to his office and he said : ‘ Mo do you agree with me that judge was as wet as hell ? ’ and I said : ‘ If you so say but he was sure swimming in the right pool . ’ |
| 19 | But Michael called me the other day to say : ‘ I was n't getting anywhere until you contacted the insurance company and my agents . |
| 20 | Tom called his the ‘ Quadriplane ’ and , when the individual kites were only 40cm ( 16in ) apart and flying as one , they would lift 10kg ( 221b ) in a moderate-to-fresh breeze . |
| 21 | I called you the Bony Lady . |
| 22 | He looked like a wild thing so we called him the Yeti . |
| 23 | They called him the One-Eyed Guest and Elisabeth recalled how , when she was young , the peasants never harvested a field without putting out a sheaf for Odin 's horse . |
| 24 | It was the overly loquacious Lord Macaulay who called him the Smith of Smiths . |
| 25 | ‘ She called him the former proprietor . |
| 26 | Those who liked the Prince called him Slender Billy , while his detractors called him the Young Frog . |
| 27 | They called him The King of Hell . ’ |
| 28 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 29 | They called him the bamboo man when they finally dared to discuss it . |
| 30 | I nearly called him the chairman of the Tory party — I apologise . |