Example sentences of "had call [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the fighting started in 1948 , some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut . |
| 2 | They had met a fortnight after Meg 's arrival when Alice had called at the Old Rectory with a suitcase of jumble for the annual sale in aid of St Andrew 's Church in Lydsett . |
| 3 | But then Arthurs , who had called at his former home to visit his three children , lashed out at Mr Berry with a cricket bat and kicked him in the face , breaking his jaw in several places . |
| 4 | It was the 28th house he had called at . |
| 5 | On the day of the discovery of Sandy 's body he remembered Buchanan had called at Livingstone Manor , had been told Hauser was in Finland . |
| 6 | On his way there the frigate taking him to Suez had called at Jidda to enable him to meet Sharif Husain , the father of Amir Faisal who was leading the Arab Revolt . |
| 7 | In addition , he had called at the Fleming house where he had got no reply to his bell-ringing . |
| 8 | Matthew Clarke , QC , for TV Licensing , part of the Post Office , maintained that two officers who had called at Mr Guest 's house had genuinely believed that they had seen a flickering light . |
| 9 | Debbie had called at the doctor on her the way back and the doctor had said I ca n't see anything wrong with your spine |
| 10 | And when she had seen a man 's shape she had thought for one wild moment that Mervyn or even John had called with flowers . |
| 11 | The United Nations High Commission for Refugees had called on the Home Office to reconsider Mr Guzel 's removal on compassionate grounds . |
| 12 | ADN , the official news agency , said the military leaders had called on the armed forces to fulfil their constitutional task of defending East Germany ‘ calmly and reliably during these fateful hours ’ . |
| 13 | ADN , the official news agency , said the military leaders had called on the armed forces to fulfil their constitutional task of defending East Germany ‘ calmly and reliably during these fateful hours ’ . |
| 14 | ADN , the official news agency , said the military leaders had called on the armed forces to fulfil their constitutional task of defending East Germany ‘ calmly and reliably during these fateful hours ’ . |
| 15 | The Big Bang may have encouraged a greater familiarity among companies with search firms , simply because it was the first occasion when they had called on their services , often reluctantly and as a last resort . |
| 16 | ( Incidentally , during the Fontainebleau conference Ho had called on the US Ambassador in Paris to assure him that he and his party aspired to independence in the French Union and that he was not a communist . ) |
| 17 | He had always been pleased when she had called on him in London but made little effort to visit her in Carshalton . |
| 18 | The boys in the prowl-car had been sent to investigate what was believed to be a burst of machine-gun fire — I could confirm that it was — and had called on Rico and the Battler to pull up . |
| 19 | Edward Pitt had called on them in the evening . |
| 20 | She had called on them when their parents died . |
| 21 | May had stepped out of routine only if relatives , more needy she thought but in Jack 's private opinion more selfish and feckless , had called on her help , or on account of their children , now grown up and living away from home . |
| 22 | In the course of his visit to Sweden , Mandela had called on the international community to sever all diplomatic links with South Africa and to intensify sanctions in order to eliminate apartheid . |
| 23 | At the Franco-German summit Kohl and Mitterrand had called on the April 28 summit to convene an intergovernmental conference on political union for December 1990 , to coincide with the planned summit on economic and monetary union . |
| 24 | Those taking part included President Mitterrand ( who had condemned the " particularly abject " attack at Carpentras and had called on the French people to " pull themselves together " ) , Prime Minister Michel Rocard , and other members of the government and senior politicians excluding the FN . |
| 25 | Two days before the speech ( i.e. on Aug. 14 ) a petition signed by a group of 58 human rights activists , academics and retired armed forces officers had called on Suharto not to stand for a sixth term as President in 1993 . |
| 26 | The Soviet Union , for example , had called on the Security Council on Oct. 9 to " display the same unanimity and consistence in the approach to the situation on the occupied territories as was effectively demonstrated by the Security Council with respect to Iraqi aggression against Kuwait " . |
| 27 | Relations with France had deteriorated in recent weeks [ see p. 37874 ] , and on Dec. 21 the government denounced as " paternalistic " the comments of Thierry de Beaucé , the French Secretary of State for International Cultural Relations , who had called on the Moroccan government to respect human rights , especially in the context of the trials of those arrested over the Dec. 14-15 demonstrations . |
| 28 | On Jan. 14 , Palestinian sources said that the PLO chairman Yassir Arafat had called on Palestinians in Lebanon to fight on the side of Iraq in the Gulf war . |
| 29 | There was a month of relative peace in the townships following the " peace summit " which the government had called on May 24 [ see p. 38178 ] . |
| 30 | The Socialist Unity Party ( PSU ) and some Christian Democrats had called on voters to boycott the referendum , on the grounds that a reduction of choice for the electorate could result . |