Example sentences of "[adj] call [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Officially he does , General , but for the purposes of his private life he has a small apartment , a flat as the English call it . |
| 2 | Some call me ruthless . |
| 3 | ‘ Some call me Laz , ’ I added . |
| 4 | Some call me Laz . ’ |
| 5 | Some call me , well , Rex , I suppose . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Woodbine , fella , the name 's Lazlo Woodbine , some call me — ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The Tsarina Catherine … some call her the Great , like Peter . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Meadow hay ’ is made from permanent pasture containing a large proportion of indigenous meadow-grasses , clovers , and herbs ( some call them weeds ) . |
| 9 | A second Cromwell , some call him . ’ |
| 10 | Some call him Nobski , others claim he 's just a cartoon , a caricature of damaging black stereotypes . |
| 11 | Some call him a good bread-and-butter player , but he has not apparent weaknesses . |
| 12 | Some call him Laz . ’ |
| 13 | Some call him mad . |
| 14 | Some people call him Hagarth and some people call him Haygarth and some call him erm Haygar some people call him Hagge or all that lot . |
| 15 | ‘ And some call you Laz ? ’ |
| 16 | The sound itself is difficult to describe — some call it a grunt or a rattle , but however you describe it , once heard the noise is unforgettable . |
| 17 | " Your grandfather might have heard it called the felty , or the pigeon felty or even the blue felty — and I think some call it fell fo ! " |
| 18 | Some call it Democracy |
| 19 | Philip claims that this is a domain as yet unexplored by psychoanalysis , and he suggests that possibly this is just as well : ‘ Some call it truth , some creation , some fiction , history , memory or mere jingling of bells . |
| 20 | A weakness in me , some call it . |
| 21 | When Newcastle won the Fairs Cup there was a song that began ‘ Some call us Newcastle United , most call us the kings of the land , and here 's to Bobby Moncur , the Fairs Cup in his hand … |
| 22 | It was a late Easter and the daffodils , or ‘ lilies ’ as the Cornish call them , were in full bloom . |
| 23 | The continuous types are usually described and listed as perpetual flowering , whereas the intermittent types are called recurrent , repeat flowering or , as the French call them , remontant ( see also page 17 ) . |
| 24 | We call them " collaborators " but the Annamese who do n't want anything to do with the French call them the " licensed pirates . " |
| 25 | Rising from the saddle , cycling en danseuse as the French call it and in the less elegant English term ‘ honking ’ , the coureurs change their position , holding the brake levers in this sort of effort , then after a while return to the saddle . |
| 26 | Shortly after Chaptal 's publication a few Champagne manufacturers began to add the sugar , not at the time of pressing , but immediately prior to bottling in order to promote the second fermentation or , as the French call it , the prise de mousse . |
| 27 | Champagne 's harvest must therefore reach a reasonable level of ripeness and as the ripening process , or véraison the French call it , increases the sugar content , the high degree of acidity necessary for these wines is important only in ratio to the sugar content . |
| 28 | The chateau was like many of its kind , stained by war here and there when the English ( or the Goddamns , as the French call us ) had tried to conquer Northern France , nothing remarkable . |
| 29 | They all call 'im The Butcher . " |
| 30 | That 's why they all call him Coconut at school . ’ |