Example sentences of "[was/were] called a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's why they were called a window breaker these tops . |
| 2 | Yu were called a traitor , a Russian infiltrator , |
| 3 | Yes well at the end of the the the er service or anniversary , whatever , I do n't know if it was called a service or not . |
| 4 | For the time being , what was left to him was called a reversion . |
| 5 | Prabhakar received two bouncers in an over from McDermott , the second of which was called a no-ball under the new regulation . |
| 6 | His vehicle was called a taxi , but Virginia had privately questioned whether a bright orange mini-van , lined with fake tiger fur and blaring non-stop earsplitting calypso music , could rightfully claim that title . |
| 7 | I was called a Scab . |
| 8 | In military terms , I was called a runner , and as I had no bicycle at that time , running was literally what I did ! |
| 9 | Menzel was called a pornographer , Forman a Zionist and , later , to celebrate the first anniversary of the invasion , a book was published by a Stalinist hack called They Did Not Pass . |
| 10 | Each of these future estates was called a remainder . |
| 11 | Our rental car was called a Ford Escort , but you could have fooled me ; somebody had smoothed off all the corners . |
| 12 | Then he launched what was called a charm offensive against Tory MPs who might not support the Government . |
| 13 | Their act was called A Fantasy in Black and White . |
| 14 | It was called A Night to Remember . |
| 15 | Get a a small piece , you could buy a I think it was called a side of leather or a whole piece of leather and cut yourselves out of it.And erm leather was n't cheap even in those days , it varied in thickness . |
| 16 | Yeah I was called a roamer find me . |
| 17 | At first the students achieved a certificate on qualifying , but this was called a diploma from 24 June 1808 . |
| 18 | What was called a cart load of peat was being sold at the high price of 2/6 . |
| 19 | One end of a curved steel needle , which was called a prick , was inserted in a hole in the top of a knitting sheath , a traditional carved stick which held the needle firm and was placed in the knitter 's belt . |
| 20 | May own efforts at making custard , on what I think was called a Hydra Burner , may have been forgotten by those who subsequently had to eat the awful stuff , but I am not likely to forget the watery culinary disaster ! |
| 21 | Er well only two er and Skerrymor but I was er three year because it was called a rock station or a relieving station was a big island the island of Rhona seven miles long when the sea was n't near the tower at all but er and Skerrymor the sea was battering round the towers all the time . |
| 22 | ‘ He 'd been called a wop and I was called a coon . |
| 23 | He is first recorded in Leicester in 1382 , but was apparently not a native of the town ; he was called a priest , but doubts about his ordination were later expressed . |
| 24 | Iliescu himself was called a reform communist in the Gorbachev mould , whose commitment to Western-style democracy and the market economy was suspect . |
| 25 | Well it was called a Discipleship Training course erm |