Example sentences of "[pron] have call " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd called it that all my life so why should they try to force me to change the way I speak my own language ? |
| 2 | He spent the rest of his time in the local bar , which I 'd called The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea . |
| 3 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 4 | I 'd called him Chinless Wonder on the same basis that regular enlisted men in the Army call Sandhurst graduates ‘ Ruperts ’ . |
| 5 | Michelle was the only one on duty there , but she put down the latest James Herbert long enough to tell me that yes , they had sent for an Airborne messenger just after eleven , and that Anna kept asking if I 'd called . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ she snapped , ‘ are you going to tell me who you are , or do I have to call the constable ? ’ |
| 7 | Do I have to call the abstentions ? |
| 8 | should n't I have called him ? |
| 9 | ‘ I had to call and call . ’ |
| 10 | One night I had to call the vet out at half past twelve as he was sweating and shaking and in obvious pain . |
| 11 | ‘ I had to call an automobile race car body manufacturer to make these double concave pieces which were very difficult to fashion from the second hand pattern we had . |
| 12 | They 've been calling us cheats , but I had to call on our manager to try to put a stop to some of their own little tricks at Headingley . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't have time to call you before catching a flight — but I felt I had to call INCUBUS . |
| 14 | Many years ago I had to call weekly on a woman client who was separated from her husband and caring ( very efficiently ) for a young family . |
| 15 | Then he tried to force me to take the damn' thing , and I had to call attention to my delicate condition . |
| 16 | " You remember , he 's the one I had to call his number to get you , that 's when we were in Frankfurt . |
| 17 | ‘ I — I had to call you because … ’ |
| 18 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 19 | So that meant I had to call the police , always assuming that the local Neighbourhood Watch had n't . |
| 20 | It did n't help that I had to call my father ‘ uncle ’ and Eric and Paul ‘ cousins ’ ; this was my father 's idea of trying to fool the policeman about my parentage in case Diggs did any asking around and discovered that I did n't exist officially . |
| 21 | I had to call upon Bob 's expertise . |
| 22 | I had to call her yesterday as well . |
| 23 | I had called a meeting in my office , by now decorated with a number of pictures from the Government 's own art collection including a marvellous study of the railway cutting at Acton by Lucien Pissarro . |
| 24 | I had called Professor Ruiperez from my hostal , and at once he came to take me out to lunch at an expensive restaurant featuring all the local dishes , including a hearty paella and fine Rioja wines . |
| 25 | But if I had called out you would then have heard me across the stones . |
| 26 | When he came round , I had called the doctor . |
| 27 | The next step was selection for the World Cup squad : ‘ Actually , I was lying in bed with ‘ flu on the Sunday morning of a squad session from which I had called off when Bill Hogg , the SRU secretary , telephoned to say that Iain Milne had been forced to withdraw . |
| 28 | She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation . |
| 29 | I had called round at the house early in the week to check on how things had gone over the weekend . |
| 30 | I had called it a ‘ wee bridal veil ’ — obviously foxed by the scale . |