Example sentences of "[vb past] called a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I reached her signature I was half-packed and had called a taxi for Paddington station . |
| 2 | The word cottage conjured up in his mind the Smiths ' dwelling ; but a few minutes later , when he saw what she had called a cottage , he realised it was far removed from the Smiths ' dwelling as Screehaugh had been , in that it was a substantially built house . |
| 3 | Gloucester had not only ended the division within the Neville family but , through his relationship with Northumberland , had called a halt to the long-standing hostility of Neville and Percy . |
| 4 | In four years Henry may , at best , have added about £100,000 per annum to his ordinary revenue , and fairly soon the taxpayers had called a halt to further intervention abroad . |
| 5 | Gloucester had not only ended the division within the Neville family but , through his relationship with Northumberland , had called a halt to the long-standing hostility of Neville and Percy . |
| 6 | It was Morse himself , too , who at 8.30 p.m. had called a halt to everything . |
| 7 | We wanted to retain what the Soviets had called a process . |
| 8 | I had called a meeting in my office , by now decorated with a number of pictures from the Government 's own art collection including a marvellous study of the railway cutting at Acton by Lucien Pissarro . |
| 9 | Six weeks after the crash , Warner had called a meeting of a dozen of his friends . |
| 10 | Mihnea Marmeliuc , who returned as Minister of Labour and Social Security ( a post he had held in the NSF provisional government in January-June 1990 ) , immediately after his nomination was disowned by his National Liberal Party ( the second largest opposition party in parliament after the Hungarian Democratic Union ) ; the NLP had called a week before the reshuffle for the creation of an all-party coalition government . |
| 11 | The opposition National Peasants ' Party , Liberal Party and Social Democratic Party , together with student groups , had called a demonstration for Jan. 28 once again to protest against the planned NSF participation in the elections . |
| 12 | In the old days , if someone had called a journeyman craftsman a ‘ worker ’ , he would have had a fight on his hands … |