Example sentences of "and they call [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was very short and very very broad-shouldered ; and they called him Narrowback . |
| 2 | There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now . |
| 3 | Mandy was telling us , you know , about one of her friends she erm her husband was very high up in a company and he went to work one day and they called him in the office and says right , you ai n't got a job ! |
| 4 | And they called them chappens |
| 5 | So I went out to get some fish and chips and they called me NIGGGGGAH ! ’ |
| 6 | The people were all friendly , and they called me Dick immediately . |
| 7 | And they called me , and I crawled out , and there was this huge bear between me and my mother , very tall , sitting up the way they do , as tall as … all the way up to the light fitting . |
| 8 | Say I was involved with a gallery and they called me up tomorrow , and said , ‘ Alison I want you to do this painting ’ , I could just comply . |
| 9 | And they called me more or less er to do the odd jobs you know and in the brew house , as was here , I fixed , I told you once , I fixed a bench up , it was as tight as could be and put a vice on it and all in here , this shop here , they says you can come in here anytime and do what you like and er |
| 10 | And they called me an N B man , a North British Railway man . |
| 11 | It 's probably cos I walked in and they called me over , I mean I |
| 12 | Well there were a woman that used to have have that and they called her Maggie and she used to serve drinks there , whisky and that was before Stromness was voted dry you see . |
| 13 | Some woman called the Bogey and they called her , they said to her , will this Mrs come up we want , we want to sing it 's her |
| 14 | My husband and the boys cleared a path through the undergrowth when we first came here , and they called it the Burma Road . ’ |
| 15 | And they called it ‘ New Times ’ . |
| 16 | There was a fire at Mr 's store and they called it arson . |
| 17 | You see and they called it the , the church of Saint Constantine , and it shifted from here and they built one down at the and then they shifted from the to the present site in about seventeen forty . |
| 18 | And they called it the number one . |
| 19 | And they called us to go out and look at them . |
| 20 | The crash was heard by a hill walker who phoned the police and they called us . |
| 21 | Who 's , the one who 's supposed to have been getting engaged to son , and they call him David . |
| 22 | ‘ My name 's Francis William Samuel after me Dad … but everybody calls me Frankie , except me school mates and they call me … . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And they call me cynical ! ’ he laughs . |
| 24 | Our Lady was seen by many people , and they call it the shrine of Our Lady of Carns . |
| 25 | And he built a new house at and they call it Scott 's House yet . |
| 26 | The car of the future and they call it the ’ Urbanizer . ’ |
| 27 | It used to be the south east midlands , now it 's classed as the south midlands but Bedford , twenty one miles along the road there , and they call it the south . |
| 28 | And they call it and they call it progress . |
| 29 | And they call it and they call it progress . |
| 30 | But because you 're still at school they think you 're dirty and disgusting and they call you a slag , but it could happen to then any day . |