Example sentences of "always call [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My natural mother was my mother 's younger sister , so my mother 's really my aunt , but I 've always called her Mum . |
| 2 | Gran had always been tetchy and impatient with Ben Hesketh , she remembered ; and he 'd always called her Ma , as if he 'd been Jake 's brother . |
| 3 | Alice had always called her mother Mummy . |
| 4 | ‘ Anyway , the Queen of the Night , always called your mother that , you know , because of her amazing devotion to sleep , which she seemed to prefer to almost any other activity , in particular to that which I believe today 's lovers refer to so elegantly as ‘ boffing ’ or ‘ shafting ’ … . |
| 5 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 6 | Rabbi Moishe was the only one of the family who had always called his grandson by his Yiddish pet name . |
| 7 | Modigliani always called her Giovanna , the Italian version . |
| 8 | Eva always called our area ‘ the higher depths ’ . |