Example sentences of "called it the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
| 2 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 3 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 4 | 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 , |
| 5 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 6 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 7 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When Scrooge was premiered in Birmingham last year Gloria Honeyford called it the hottest selling ticket outside of London . |
| 10 | They called it the old comedians |
| 11 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |