Example sentences of "call him the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Balliol , where the prevailing Broad Church theology was quite counter to his own , he studied with a succession of brilliant tutors , who recognized the independent , unconventional cast of his mind ; Benjamin Jowett [ q.v. ] was reputed ( probably wrongly ) to have called him the star of Balliol . |
| 2 | They called him The King of Hell . ’ |
| 3 | I nearly called him the chairman of the Tory party — I apologise . |
| 4 | It was the overly loquacious Lord Macaulay who called him the Smith of Smiths . |
| 5 | He took care of the nation 's finances , Aunt Harriet had said , you might call him the Keeper of the Purse . |