Example sentences of "[was/were] call to " in BNC.
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| 1 | His friends were calling to him , urging him on , and he was thinking that if this was what he had wanted all these years he was afraid of it . |
| 2 | Keols , invisible in the forest canopy , were calling to each other in their incessant woody voices . |
| 3 | More than once , right-wing union leaders have been left fuming in their seats as a stream of party activists were called to the rostrum . |
| 4 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 5 | BUILDING societies were called to an emergency meeting by the Department of the Environment this week in an attempt to defuse the growing crisis , over contaminated concrete blocks which is threatening to make unmortgageable up to 40 per cent of the housing stock in Cornwall and parts of Devon . |
| 6 | Britain 's High Commissioner and ambassadors of the United States and other countries were called to the Foreign Ministry in Valletta to be told . |
| 7 | Back in Britain , men were called to arms ; everyone was issued with a gas mask ; sandbags were provided to protect specified buildings and to provide some shelter against the expected air attacks , and provision of Air Raid Shelters was hastened . |
| 8 | In quick succession , the remaining two brothers were called to the stand . |
| 9 | The Miseroni were called to Prague to set up a workshop for crystal carving and gem cutting , and they laid the foundations for the Bohemian cut-glass industry . |
| 10 | One day Victoria and Alexander were called to the drawing room after tea and saw a strange woman in a dress printed with yellow lemons sitting on the fender beside their father . |
| 11 | By the time Richard and Murray were called to the headmaster 's study a sheaf of publications headlining the incident were laid out on the large drum table . |
| 12 | Each year , when shooting , stalking and fishing guests departed , estate employees were called to the great house to work in the armoury , which had one of the finest collections of antique weapons in Scotland : claymores , dirks , shields , spears and guns . |
| 13 | The police were called to ‘ Bonaparte 's ’ after customers complained of rowdy behaviour . |
| 14 | Ralph made a friend of every pupil and on their birthday they were called to his desk and presented with a sixpence — quite a lot of money in the twenties . |
| 15 | AN ARMY bomb disposal team were called to farmland at Medstead last week to investigate a suspect device . |
| 16 | Police were called to the shop in Southampton after a passer-by spotted Urben lowering himself through the roof into the showroom . |
| 17 | A country lane surrounding the house was sealed off and police from throughout the county were called to the scene . |
| 18 | Hampshire Police confirmed yesterday that they were called to the scene of a fight outside the Captain 's Corner nightspot in Southampton around midnight . |
| 19 | The firms engaged in the renovation scheme were called to a meeting with officials at Stormont and their contracts terminated on 11th and 12th September as part of retaliatory moves against the Provisionals . |
| 20 | Armed police were called to Markham Main , near Doncaster , South Yorkshire , where 730 men are due to lose their jobs . |
| 21 | Police were called to Highsted Girls ' Grammar School at Sittingbourne , Kent . |
| 22 | In mid-afternoon , police were called to Legends seafront bar . |
| 23 | At length we were called to an ante-room , where he was told to strip to the waist and wait . |
| 24 | IT WAS all cisterns go yesterday when a Sudbury toddler let potty training go to his head and firefighters were called to the rescue . |
| 25 | Six fire crews , the Colchester rescue tender and a control vehicle were called to the blaze . |
| 26 | Bomb experts were called to the woods near Redcar , Cleveland , to blow it up . |
| 27 | Gardner , 27 , was charged after police were called to the terraced home he shares with Joanne Gibson and their two-year-old son Liam . |
| 28 | Following another violent incident police were called to the White Hart pub , Boreham , where officers found a 20-year old man lying on the floor with a knife still embedded in his back . |
| 29 | In Edward 's reign clerical proctors were called to several , but by no means to all , his parliaments : like the lay representatives , they were absent from at least a dozen assemblies convened between 1295 and 1307 . |
| 30 | We were called to an explosion and house fire in Sutton-in-Ashfield and I responded as Officer in Charge and I pulled up outside , we dealt with the fire and then we began the investigation to find out what had happened . |