Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] called [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The smaller was her private luggage ; the larger , which she called her public luggage , was full of pamphlets . ) |
| 2 | And on the last day he led the girl he loved to a shack he had built behind their tiny house and which he called his studio . |
| 3 | Then there was a smaller room at the front of the house where the old man counted his money , and which he called his ‘ den ’ , and , to the rear of the house the kitchen , a large , well-designed place with windows on two sides ; one looking out to the side of the house where the undergrowth reached waist height , and the other two situated at each end of the wall that overlooked the rear garden . |
| 4 | She had a toy-boy in tow whom she called her ‘ animal ’ . |
| 5 | The gentle melodies of Ireland filled the place with much tender nostalgia that even her brother 's eyes became moist , and Maria Candida had to go outside and howl over something she called her " saudades " . |
| 6 | They made me move in to live with them as something they called their au-pair girl , mostly to exercise two new Great Dane puppies . |
| 7 | I would have staked my life on what I called my ‘ gut feeling ’ that he was — and even in my mother 's terms — a thoroughly nice man . |
| 8 | I am still amazed that , despite our losses at the time — and they would worsen until well into 1942 — some would survive what I called my " trough of despair " . |
| 9 | As often happened when a crowd of actors got together , somebody started playing the piano , and soon they were letting their hair down , doing what somebody called their ‘ party turns ’ . |
| 10 | Ellen planned to return to her tiny apartment in the town where she kept her precious books and where , on an old manual typewriter , she wrote what she called her ‘ five-finger exercises ’ , which she would never let anyone read . |
| 11 | She insisted that they were not seen often together at TVL and that she kept what she called her professional distance . |
| 12 | And although she seems to disagree with its overall drift , she tells me she 's in complete accord with my views on what she called my ‘ blasted reconstruction ’ . ’ |
| 13 | Grandma rewarded me with what she called my ‘ Saturday penny ’ . ’ |
| 14 | If any Boozebuster victim decided he did n't actually want to go back to the office or home to his wife , Eddie would gently , but very publicly , take hold of him by what she called his ‘ wedding tackle ’ and lead him out of the pub . |
| 15 | Oh yes there was a there was an er a er a right of way between Glen Ayloch and Glen Shee , and especially out of what we called our hill . |
| 16 | ‘ You know what we called our playhouse ? |
| 17 | Tenant farmers were particularly vocal about what they called their right to choose who to allow on their land . |
| 18 | They raved about what they called my ‘ Van Gogh ’ hair ( a naturally pale yellow at the time ) , and Helen welcomed me because , as she said , I had fairies sitting on my shoulder . |
| 19 | Best of all , his work would take on a new virility once he rooted himself in the earth and responded to what he called its ‘ music ’ , experiencing its moods as ‘ symphonic , dramatic ’ . |
| 20 | Underlying this analysis was a profound , and from our viewpoint salutary , concern with the relationships between , on the one hand , the psychological and biological bases of people 's existence ( what he called their ‘ pre-social ’ lives ) and , on the other hand , their lives as part of human societies and collective groups . |
| 21 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 22 | The UN secretary general , Boutros Boutros-Ghali , called on Bosnian Serb forces to halt what he called their ‘ unjustifiable ’ attack on Srebrenica . |
| 23 | Then he went on , to amplify what he called my brave intervention . |
| 24 | Another line was what he called his jazz suits . |
| 25 | It took him four or five visits before he asked her if he could unstrap what he called his piece of timber . |
| 26 | His thick hair was greying but he had not given up on red baseball shoes , sleeveless T-shirts or what he called his ‘ cosmopolitan Lancashire accent , half scouse , half Lancashire ’ . |
| 27 | Coleridge 's Welsh visit , by contrast , was perhaps the least significant part of his wanderings during the next few weeks , and almost from the moment he left Cambridge , his simple plans for what he called his ‘ peregrination ’ began to grow more complex . |
| 28 | Her husband vaunted what he called his ‘ poverty ’ , without , of course , ever explaining its cause . |
| 29 | The following morning he told me what a wonderful night 's sleep it had given him and was fulsome in his praise of what he called his ‘ beautiful lady ’ . |
| 30 | The sergeant marched to the middle of the stage and when , using what he called his stage expertise , she heard him say , ‘ Now I give you three guesses who comes next , ’ there followed ribald suggestions from different parts of the hall . |