Example sentences of "be [adv] called [noun prp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sick too of being affectionately called Shitface and Curryface , and of coming home covered in spit and snot and chalk and wood-shavings . |
| 2 | As is shown on their headstone , they lived at Overhill , which is now called Hill and is a short distance outside Dunlop village on the Stewarton Road . |
| 3 | Thin coax ( 10Base2 ) is sometimes called ThinNet or CheaperNet . |
| 4 | He was generally called Jabbie or Joe-boy . |
| 5 | Fairyland was once called Mirryland or Marayland , and it was here witches claimed to ride at the time of their Sabbats . |
| 6 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 7 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 8 | One used to be in Bristol 's Cortinas , the other one was really called Greg and studied Physics and Astronomy at University College London . |
| 9 | It was a good job she was n't called Ramsbottom or anything like that as the material would n't have stretched far enough . |