Example sentences of "call him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Early on in the State Department , we took to calling him the rent-a-colonel , in tribute to his ability to simultaneously milk the antagonistic intelligence services of Cuba and the US , ’ said Mr Francis McNeill , a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs . |
| 2 | Now , they 're calling him the heir to Britain 's tennis crown . |
| 3 | Bob calls him the murderer ! |
| 4 | ‘ Wild ’ , Omi had called him the night he arrived , a wild boy , and now another dimension had been added to that figure from long ago : cruelty — a cruel boy … . |
| 5 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 6 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |
| 7 | A man called him the devil , some parents shouted ‘ We Want Joe ’ and the talk was all about condoms , AIDS and innocence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 10 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 11 | They called him The King of Hell . ’ |
| 12 | There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now . |
| 13 | I nearly called him the chairman of the Tory party — I apologise . |
| 14 | He looked like a wild thing so we called him the Yeti . |
| 15 | Born Alfredo James Pacino he is still haunted by memories of growing up on the mean streets of New York 's South Bronx where his street gang pals called him The Actor . |
| 16 | They called him the bamboo man when they finally dared to discuss it . |
| 17 | It was the overly loquacious Lord Macaulay who called him the Smith of Smiths . |
| 18 | The Government are always making predictions , and in that sense the Chancellor may be described as the Mother Shipton — perhaps I should call him the Brother Shipton — of economics . |
| 19 | They do n't call him The Butcher for nothing ! " |
| 20 | He took care of the nation 's finances , Aunt Harriet had said , you might call him the Keeper of the Purse . |
| 21 | She does n't call him the vet when she 's |
| 22 | There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now . |
| 23 | For my purpose I should like to call him the man in the jury box , for the moral judgement of society must be something about which any twelve men or women drawn at random might after discussion be expected to be unanimous . |
| 24 | We used to call him the Butcher . ’ |
| 25 | My mother used to call him the Sage in bloom , ’ she added , ‘ when he was chasing women , that was . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I sha n't wait till Adam returns , ’ Lewis said in that manner that had once led his daughter to call him the Frog Footman , |
| 27 | And er the old man , they they used to call him the iron man and he was the iron man . |
| 28 | ‘ We call him the Eel … ’ |
| 29 | We call him the boss . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Did you say you call him the boss ? ’ |