Example sentences of "people call [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the sheer volume of works created by people calling themselves artists in the United States during any two-year period , it is unrealistic to think that a museum exhibition devoted to two years of art can give a visitor a sense of the breadth of what is being produced . |
| 2 | The zebra was released by people calling themselves the Animal Liberation Front |
| 3 | I made my way up to the lobby with those final two words of hers ringing around inside my head , and all sorts of other doctor phrases started to enter my mind — people calling me Doctor Streeter , popular songs with the word doctor in them — and then all of a sudden I started to cry . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm beginning to get so fed up with people calling me sensible , Aunt Sarah . ’ |
| 5 | I get people calling me up saying erm they 've got a memory call problem and er , I 've deleted a number of files off the disk , and the problem did n't go away . |
| 6 | He likes all that , the cars and people calling him Minister , but he wanted her to be the good politician 's wife , doing his entertaining . |
| 7 | Partly , it 's survived because of its very size and range ; with hundreds of thousands of people calling us every year , there 's a clear demonstration of need for the service . |
| 8 | Colquhoun tormented Barnsley with his pace and skill and last night admitted : ‘ It hurts when you hear people calling you a bad buy . |
| 9 | you wo n't have people calling you Semon then . |
| 10 | RON HARRIS : ( Chelsea and Brentford- 1961–1983 ) : ‘ People called him Chopper Harris , and Chopper was my first nickname when I went to Wimbledon — before the crowd came up with Psycho for me . |
| 11 | The people called them Scarag . |
| 12 | The older people called her ‘ delicate ’ . |
| 13 | I 'm sure her mother called her something else , Eunice I think , but most people called her Fly though I 've no idea why . |
| 14 | It seemed that all I had was myself , and those few very close people called my loved ones . |
| 15 | At the time , people called it : ‘ The Great Pestilence ’ or ‘ The Great Dying ’ . |
| 16 | They decided Up Holland should be two words because people called it ‘ Uffoland ’ . |
| 17 | Some people called it a riot . |
| 18 | Some people called it an insurrection , others a riot . |
| 19 | ‘ Other people called it International Times or even ‘ eye tee ’ ‘ , says Miles . |
| 20 | ‘ Now you go to the same playgrounds and schools where people called me a fag for being an actor and everybody as a Screen Actors Guild card falling out of their pocket . |
| 21 | ‘ I went to study in Brazil where people called me ‘ Indian ’ . |
| 22 | With iron gords , or hoops as the rich people called them , and with clashes and tensions no less thrilling and dangerous than the real thing , we competitively raced until we dropped . |
| 23 | ‘ When he first arrived , people called him |
| 24 | People called it the Primavera della patria , the Rebirth of the Country . |
| 25 | It 's that , really , that makes people call them crazy . |
| 26 | ‘ It makes you think , when you hear people call you Chariie as they sling you on the slab . ’ |
| 27 | But the police are now warning other people to call them immediately if they 're every approached by anyone suspicious . |
| 28 | ‘ Some people call her mad . |
| 29 | ‘ Some people call them fairies , goblins . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a long tailed , short legged , long nosed retriever , ’ said the proud owner , ‘ but some people call them crocodiles . ’ |