Example sentences of "was called [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was called Frag , and it would be giving off enough psychochemical fragrance into their nostrils to keep there minds dislocated for a week . |
| 2 | ( In France it was called Hein ? ) |
| 3 | The son of Poseidon and Amphitrite was called Triton , and was usually represented as half-man , half-dolphin , holding in his left hand an upright dolphin that suggests an erect penis . |
| 4 | It was called silage and to the careful Orkney farmer it seemed all too good to be true . |
| 5 | The two boats were running along the coastline on almost parallel courses , Ewen close in , perforce following the jagged line of the shore , and our boat ( I found later that she was called Sea Otter ) on a straight course some way out . |
| 6 | The cavalryman , who was called Lord John Rossendale , was staring at the sumptuous decorations in the supper room where the long tables were draped in white linen and thickly set with silver and fine china . |
| 7 | Hess met him in 1936 , at the Olympics in Berlin , but he was called Lord Clydesdale then , your system is confusing . |
| 8 | That was called Glen Bainey And there is a stone out there a great huge stone oh that was called Clachnagowan I 've seen that many And if you went there you If you got the length of Clachnagowan you looked right out the hill right out to Glen Bainey |
| 9 | The sixth one was called caterpillar it was two long planks of wood with poles coming out of it . |
| 10 | Christopher 's potter friend lived in a farmhouse and the nearest village was called Bourg de Visa . |
| 11 | She says she was called Judas , a scab , and sexually harassed in the House . |
| 12 | It was called Iwe Irobin fun awon ara Egba Yorubas ( ‘ the newspaper for Egba and Yoruba people ’ ) and was priced at 30 cowries ! |
| 13 | On closer inspection it turned out the bar was called La Detente . |
| 14 | They were gon na , my Dad said yeah well my one , no , my Dad 's one was called Rhino and the other one was called Elephant and their one died . |
| 15 | The area Provenzano and McIntosh covered was called South Central . |
| 16 | and also the Home Guard or the army were in the house at the far side of the airport which was called Aldridge Lodge they were very much in there the erm |
| 17 | Then he remembered that the vicar 's sister-in-law was called Penelope — but why should she sent him a card ? |
| 18 | It was called Station . |
| 19 | This bitch was called Anna v Rozavel . |
| 20 | ‘ She was called Mertseger , ’ the embalmer told Huy as he stood looking down at her . |
| 21 | yeah , but she was called Shakeara Bash , she was a Miss World finalist were n't she ? , was she Miss World Shakeara Bash ? , she was |
| 22 | The area now covered by the post-war rectory was called Paradise . |
| 23 | There existed a second manor of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul 's Cathedral , close to Chesewic , and that manor lay between the river and Turnham Green and was called Sutton which it is thought probably derived its name from South Town . |
| 24 | The young girl was called Anne-Sophie Mutter , whom Karajan took with him to Oxford for his special thank-you concert in the Sheldonian Theatre and whose career has developed formidably since 1977 . |
| 25 | At school he was called Nigel , or sometimes ‘ N.O. ’ , or occasionally ‘ Russ ’ , but Nigel Oliver Russell was never called Oliver . |
| 26 | That 's why she was called Catherine the Great |
| 27 | Negotiations went ahead but it all got a bit bizarre because at the time Barry 's manager was called Larry , his road manager was called Gary and his assistant was called Harry — so we had Barry , Larry , Gary and Harry — in fact , I think there were two Gary 's , just to make it confusing . |
| 28 | The food was called Herakleophorbia because it suggested that food made you strong and tall . |
| 29 | But they were very kind and they gave me a part in this play , it was called Tilly of Bloomsbury . |
| 30 | The girl who taught us the song was called Isabel . |