Example sentences of "we called [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We called them The Big Ones . |
| 2 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 3 | He looked like a wild thing so we called him the Yeti . |
| 4 | We all regarded medicine as a religion , and we called ourselves the Society of Reason . |
| 5 | Oh yes , it was at the Strathmore Arms at Hury , and we called it the Show Room , and sometimes the Hut . |
| 6 | We called it the ‘ Perfect Connection ’ system , and that really hit the mark too . |
| 7 | The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K. |
| 8 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 9 | And we called it the bull because it did n't cry , it sort of bellowed . |
| 10 | Well lost property , I already touched on , that was one of my jobs and then erm , we called it the ticket book , that was for want of some other name I suppose . |
| 11 | Have one foot on a ladder or the other stack stuck into the f into the into the erm face of stack and then you would struggle and work yourself underneath what w we called it the trinkling . |
| 12 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 13 | And we called it the man-killer because we had ridge and furrow land down there , and this darn thing they was taking , and nothing would come over the top for ages , and suddenly the whole lot would come over on top of you , of course it as well , and you had to that 's what we were doing . |