Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] called [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of his songs he called himself a master of the art of love , good enough to be able to earn his living at it . |
| 2 | To obtain the latter , there emerged a peculiarly modern group of businessmen who called themselves ‘ undertakers ’ or ‘ adventurers ’ . |
| 3 | for example , in 1986 , when that group of conservatives who called themselves the Hillgate Group published their pamphlet Whose Schools ? , they set out such fears , and many others , about what they saw as the direction of educational policy in schools . |
| 4 | Erm also if you look at entertainment , like James Saville calls himself Jimmy Saville , Terence Wogan is Terry Wogan , so but then you look at people like Charlie Chaplin , when he was doing his comedian role he was c he called himself Charlie Chaplin , and when he 's directing films he called himself Charles Chaplin , so maybe it 's all like a bit of a serious thing . |
| 5 | His aim was for a deeper realism than that of the illustrators and photographers who called themselves Realists . |
| 6 | Others who called themselves — |