Example sentences of "they call [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They call her the Regal Lily . |
| 2 | They call her The Green Goddess , and Queen of the Greens ; they like to photograph her in supermarkets against the Ecover , looking wholesome and fresh , youthful but still somehow serious . |
| 3 | yeah , I mean in Ireland they , fair enough , they call it the unionist party |
| 4 | set up , which started at Adams and we used the American mission near Lovedale well it was a part of Lovedale and erm , now , now it 's at er , they call it The Federal Theological Cemetery |
| 5 | in , in wha what is Jordan really , not what was Jordan , what is Jordan they call it now , they call it the occupied territories it seems to clean it up if you call it that . |
| 6 | They call it the Little Vestry . ’ |
| 7 | it was still in the sixties , they call it the swinging sixties , I mean I did n't see anything swinging in the sixties at all , I did n't think it was swinging , but er and they do n't like now the swinging sixties and I think really it was then that er people did er branch out to new ideas . |
| 8 | ‘ No wonder they call us the black Irish ! ’ |