Example sentences of "called [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he might be called Peggy in the House for ever after . |
| 2 | Di halted the unveiling ceremony in the City of London , called David to the platform and told him she was ‘ delighted ’ with the picture . |
| 3 | The story of The Way To The Lantern is inspirational and tells of an actor called Robert during the time of the French Revolution who , by assuming different personae , evades the guillotine . |
| 4 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ he would begin his lectures , ‘ in the remote marches and forests of Central Asia , near a lake called Issyk-Koul in the province of Semiriechinsk , there lived a small , pretty squirrel-like creature called the Marmot … ’ |
| 5 | We are settled on the southern shore , called Belmont for the amenity of the situation , within a stout stockade I am causing to be built . |
| 6 | When the moderates finally marched out and surrendered their authority to Cromwell , the radical remnant called Moyer to the Speaker 's chair and sat on until the military evicted them . |
| 7 | Uncle had a bitch called Jill at the time and they had puppies which we gave to the neighbours . |
| 8 | The software incorporates a remote debugging tool called VxGDB at the host and a target debugging agent , VxMon . |
| 9 | In 1828 , in a village called Ecclesfield on the road from Leeds to Sheffield , the body of a newly-born child was discovered without its head . |
| 10 | In solidarity with his fallen race , though he himself was without any sin , this man called Joshua in the Hebrew and Jesus in the Greek entered the river Jordan to be baptised for the remission of sins . |
| 11 | Although the printer interface provided on the Spectrum is a parallel one it does n't conform to the industry standard for such connections , often called Centronics after the firm who invented it , just as the internal character codes used by the Spectrum fail to conform to the Internationally accepted ASCII codes . |
| 12 | The decision to go ahead with the press conference two days later was finalised ; Pons edited a note alerting his staff to this effect , called Jones on the phone to reconfirm the joint submission for Friday the 24th but , according to Jones , said nothing about the press conference planned for the day before nor of the 11 March submission by Pons to the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry . |
| 13 | While Flaubert slowly attained European fame as a novelist , Gertrude was herself to publish a book : an edition of her grandfather 's journal , called France on the Eve of the Great Revolution . |
| 14 | There was a port called Minoa on the south-west coast of Sicily which may have been a Crete-controlled trading station . |
| 15 | On two occasions he failed ignominiously to lose his virginity to a girl called Rosie in the packing department . |
| 16 | Croatia 's rebel Serbs live in a string of southern villages in an area called Krajina near the town of Knin , and in another string of villages in Slavonia to the north . |
| 17 | This key requests that a copy of the currently displayed page be sent to a file called FORM.LST on the VMS directory from which you accessed LIFESPAN . |
| 18 | They had talked about words during that drive , well , place-names really , with particular reference to the villages that were called Roding after the river : High Roding , Berners Roding , Margaret Roding , and Rufus told him they were pronounced Roothing from the old Danish , which Adam had n't known before . |