Example sentences of "call it the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could have called it the year of their persecution : |
| 2 | The Economist called it the Consumer-Credit Snowball and pronounced it well and truly rolling . |
| 3 | They 've called it the Fellowship of Christian Spiritualists of 24 Stranraer Gardens , and they have a lot of fun , singing and dancing and playing the tambourine in the back room downstairs . |
| 4 | Horne had first made his name on radio in the days when most people still called it the wireless — on another wartime show which supposedly told everything you ever wanted to know about an RAF station . |
| 5 | Jonas called it the family-room , where there were plenty of comfortable chairs and couches and it did n't matter if you put your feet up . |
| 6 | The ancients called it the God of the Underworld . |
| 7 | He 's actually called it the Gazette so we do n't know if it 's political |
| 8 | Early writers called it the battle of Branxton , but Flodden came to be preferred , probably because of balladeers like Sir Walter Scott and Jane Elliott ( The Flowers of the Forest ) . |
| 9 | One critic called it the Tate Gallery of the south west with works by Lowry , Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland displayed alongside local art . |
| 10 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
| 11 | They used to called it the hump did n't they ? |
| 12 | The blame for syphilis was invariably ascribed to foreigners , with the result that the English called it the French disease , the French called it the Italian disease , the Italians , unable to make up their minds , called it both the French disease and the Spanish disease , while the Spanish called it the disease of Hispaniola ( Haiti ) . |
| 13 | They should have called it the charge of the bike brigade . |
| 14 | The villagers called it The Mansion and viewed it and its formal garden of still and silent yew trees with awe . |
| 15 | Well , a few years back someone else not far away opened a late-night disco and also called it the House of Music ! |
| 16 | But they 've called it the house ? |
| 17 | I I I 've always called it the E flat , |
| 18 | ( As I can speak of red without calling it the colour of blood . ) |
| 19 | ( As I can speak of red without calling it the colour of blood . ) ’ |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth stood up and praised it to the heavens — they all did , calling it the flagship of their policy . |
| 21 | Aenarion opposed this , calling it the council of despair . |
| 22 | One of Ariel 's songs which he appended went like this , and sometimes Serafine sang it , and Xanthe and Miranda both enjoyed singing it with her , calling it the song of Manjiku : |
| 23 | Incidentally — ’ he patted me on the knee' — we 're calling it the Infenestration of Leytonstone back at the Shop . |
| 24 | Merrel have introduced an all leather boot designed for British conditions and are calling it the Cumbria . |
| 25 | They 're calling it the curse of the L-plate . |
| 26 | Forlornly comical in photos , with its gaunt face and fluffy body , no one else from dusty patent lawyers to impassioned animal rights activists can resist calling it the Gheep . |
| 27 | Other developments for the backpacker : Coleman are now making their Multifuel stove with a detachable fuel bottle and calling it the Apex stove . |
| 28 | ‘ So stop calling it the Cages . |
| 29 | Silicon Graphics Inc , Mountain View , California , will this week unveil the Iris Indigo DevStation , calling it the industry 's first desktop especially configured for software developers . |
| 30 | Marshall had taken to calling it the rumour factory because a disproportionate amount of time seemed to be wasted on chatter . |