Example sentences of "he called [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He called him a skinny runt and a half-grown whelp , and he bellowed with amusement whenever a threatening movement or a deliberately sudden yell of ‘ Boo ’ caused the boy to flinch with alarm . |
| 2 | She 'd er Mrs had asked James to close the cupboard and he called her a stupid idiot . |
| 3 | How dared he called her an arrogant bitch ? |
| 4 | All the same it was hard to restrain her pleasure when he called her the following evening . |
| 5 | Far as I remember he called me a nasty name and I slapped his wrist . ’ |
| 6 | he called me a fucking cunt ! |
| 7 | Cos he called you a fat cunt , yo , it still rankles with you does n't it ? |
| 8 | ‘ I reckon Hatton was right when he called you an old woman , Cullam . ’ |
| 9 | Du Camp in one of his books — I forget which , there were always so many — made a reference to the malign effect on man of too much solitude , he called it a false counsellor who nurses at her breasts the twin infants of Egotism and Vanity . |
| 10 | He called it a disgraceful situation for a man in a position of trust . |
| 11 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 12 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 13 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |