Example sentences of "they call [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They called themselves the Wood-Winters . |
| 2 | He had left Russia soon after the Revolution and brought with him a choir of émigré singers ; they called themselves the Don-Kosaken-Chor . |
| 3 | They called themselves the Clamshell Alliance after the local clam fishers , who had been particularly upset by the plan . |
| 4 | The first dance band at the Show Room was made up of people in the dale and they called themselves the Arcadians . |
| 5 | They called themselves the Rejects , and they were very picky about social status . |
| 6 | At first they called themselves the ‘ Automobile Mutual Association ’ . |
| 7 | They called themselves the Red Lions , after the name of the pub where they first met in Birmingham in 1839 . |
| 8 | They called me the Man-Mountain . |
| 9 | They called him the One-Eyed Guest and Elisabeth recalled how , when she was young , the peasants never harvested a field without putting out a sheaf for Odin 's horse . |
| 10 | They called him The King of Hell . ’ |
| 11 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 12 | They called him the bamboo man when they finally dared to discuss it . |
| 13 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 14 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 15 | There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now . |
| 16 | They called it The Shrine — even then secular sanctity was in vogue ! |
| 17 | My husband and the boys cleared a path through the undergrowth when we first came here , and they called it the Burma Road . ’ |
| 18 | Well I 'd one come from Malta to England again , in nineteen sixteen and went on an old boat , they called it the Gurkha . |
| 19 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 20 | ‘ They called it the Blitz . ’ |
| 21 | Clatting the neeps and in Aberdeen they called them yowing And y We had your clatt as the yow they called it the hoe , the yow They cleared the Did that to the drill . |
| 22 | Twenty-five years later , when Thérèse and Léonie at last began to talk to each other about that time , they called it the odd summer . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And they called it the number one . |
| 25 | Years ago they had all these narrow looms , about this size , and this is where women worked , they called it the narrow section , and maybe mostly for hotels or you know , in the olden days they had stair , your mother 'll probably , stair runners or holes and the , the carpet just went like that and there 'd be a piece of lino up the side , |
| 26 | They called it the deal of the decade . |
| 27 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 28 | They called it the drill hall then it 's now the community centre but it 's the drill hall . |
| 29 | They called it the old comedians |
| 30 | It seems to me to a be a great joke — do they call it the knobs and knockers committee ? |