Example sentences of "what they [vb past] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they called a moisture extractor . |
| 2 | It was er what they called a tunnel pit . |
| 3 | And then the when they were built Sometimes some folk used to build them into what they called a hay soo It was a square kind of a thing but er and I do n't know why they put it into a hays hay soo as we say , but it seemed to er it seemed to be better to keep the h the wet out I suppose . |
| 4 | It had been at one time , going back over a hundred and fifty years , it had been what they called a combination poorhouse . |
| 5 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 6 | You know , a horse turning round and round in in what they called a horse power . |