Example sentences of "[vb past] called him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip they 'd called him , she said , and Philip was his name . |
| 2 | She 'd called him Sage , and she only stayed at my house for a few minutes as she had to get right back to see her new baby — the owl , of course . |
| 3 | When she 'd called him , she 'd been no closer to Vine Street than the corridor pay phone just around the corner . |
| 4 | I 'd called him Chinless Wonder on the same basis that regular enlisted men in the Army call Sandhurst graduates ‘ Ruperts ’ . |
| 5 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |
| 6 | ‘ Wild ’ , Omi had called him the night he arrived , a wild boy , and now another dimension had been added to that figure from long ago : cruelty — a cruel boy … . |
| 7 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 8 | The boy Paul , as she had called him , was about three or four years of age , crinkle haired but almost white . |
| 9 | She knew then the clerk had called him . |
| 10 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 11 | Benny Caplan was a well-known London boxer of that period , and several of Sam 's pals , in fact , had called him ‘ Benny ’ . |
| 12 | He did not know his age and no one had called him good before . |
| 13 | India-May had called him Lumberjack because his bark sounded just like someone sawing wood . |
| 14 | His classmates had called him a sissie because he had never dared to dirty himself by climbing a wall or joining in any of their rough-and-tumble games . |
| 15 | Fry feared the worst when he arrived for training yesterday morning to find his wife had called him three times already . |
| 16 | Whoever had called him must have been someone very powerful to make the head of the KGB jump like that . |
| 17 | He responded defensively , becoming eventually what his enemies had called him all along : a dictator . |
| 18 | Stephanie saw Marcus , as though they had called him up by naming him , making his way home . |
| 19 | The Curator knew about old Wolski 's love of the bird and had called him in . |
| 20 | ‘ My love , my love , ’ and was flooded by the days she had called him that . |
| 21 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
| 22 | He was more irritated than angry — irritated that the Commissioner 's Office had called him direct to demand an explanation . |
| 23 | She had called him up from the bus station as soon as she got into the City . |
| 24 | Gary could remember with utter clarity the first time that some other kids had called him a Spade . |
| 25 | Edward could not be typical of his friends , but I remembered that Clive had called him a friend to verse , and that he had read my work . |
| 26 | Of course it was too early in his life to be certain that the gods had called him , but I could have wished for no better career for him than that of a priest-administrator . |
| 27 | The Afghans had called him Iskandar . |
| 28 | She had called him by his name — a thing she had so far refused to do . |
| 29 | Everyone had called him Lord fitzAlan . |
| 30 | Unaware that she had called him by name for the first time , she halted , still some feet away , gazing at him uncertainly . |