Example sentences of "they called [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 3 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 , |
| 6 | They called it the old comedians |