Example sentences of "call they the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first group to challenge Jesus were representatives of the Sanhedrin : Mark calls them the priests , Scribes and elders ( Mark 11:27 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He also taught the mandolin to four small girls and called them the Fairy Four . |
| 5 | Their first white visitors , William Clark and Meriwether Lewis , who ‘ discovered ’ the tribe in 1805 , called them the Chopunnish . |
| 6 | 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 , |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Elsewhere , the main instrument for this capture of control by the notables — an English diplomat called them the gentry — was the election of Juntas . |
| 9 | Brown Owl had put all three into the same Six and called them the Ghillie Dhu . |
| 10 | Religious doctrine may describe these powers as the holy spirit descended into material form ; everyday terminology may call them the forces of Nature . |
| 11 | a lot of them if it is n't sorted out have them the no , what do you call them the adenoids |
| 12 | The episode as reported , involved a confrontation between a family , let us call them the Joneses , and a number of young people . |
| 13 | Why did you call them the tramp ship ? |
| 14 | C they used to call them the horse boxes . |
| 15 | In one sense , all the genes in a body are ‘ parasitic ’ genes , whether we like to call them the body 's ‘ own , genes or not . |
| 16 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 17 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 18 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 19 | Oh to get your bargains oh yes they would n't , there were n't really good fridges in those days , there was co col cold rooms but erm they would be glad to get rid of the meat that they 'd already got cut up you see , and the barker , they used to call them the barkers , standing outside you see and get your fresh meat and so on , so on , so on , so you know and er to get the custom in you see , oh there was real competition between the barkers and there were barkers standing in road . |
| 20 | These small cerebellar projections — we call them the tonsils — have been compressed against the bony rim of the foramen magnum . |
| 21 | Cos they 're finished , they call them the oyster beds . |
| 22 | The Greeks call them the Furies . |
| 23 | People call them the Gharrgoyles . |
| 24 | Policemen of my generation call them the funnies . ’ |