Example sentences of "named it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miller appropriately named it L. esculentum . |
| 2 | The effort was rewarded with the discovery last August of the faint smudge ( 7,000 times fainter than Pluto ) which he and Jane Luu tagged 1992QB 1 ( they later named it Smiley , after le Carré 's spy ) . |
| 3 | He set up a settlement there and named it Isabella . |
| 4 | The guide-books say little : Samuel Wallis visited it and named it Boscawen Island , perhaps after the great admiral of Finisterre ; the best vanilla in the Pacific is grown there ; and it is rumoured that the finest kavo — that faintly narcotic drink prepared from the powdered root of a local pepper plant , and an important part of rituals and celebrations in the South Pacific — is Tafahi kava , and that it renders all Tafahians perpetually slightly dopey . |
| 5 | He named it Latimeria and informed an astonished world that a creature thought to have been extinct for 70 million years was still alive . |
| 6 | As with Garling 's scheme , their proposals showed a new street between the two offices , but they sycophantically named it Clarendon Street . |
| 7 | As the Vikings rowed their warships round the north of Scotland , past Cape Wrath , their ‘ turning point ’ , down the ragged west coast of their ‘ South Land ’ , they saw Suilven as a single , dramatic pillar ; and they named it Sul Val , the pillar mountain . |
| 8 | He named it Stegman ( a steg is a male goose ) and it spent most of the summer on the reservoir but always wintered at West Birk Hatt . |
| 9 | The Cretans named it Minotaur , meaning ‘ bull-son of the King Minos ’ . |