Example sentences of "been call [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister of Housing and Local Government ( as his Planning Ministry had been called since 1951 ) , Richard Crossman , set up a Planning Advisory Group in 1964 , chaired by a civil servant , I.V . |
| 2 | Some conception of destructive energy , what has been called above ‘ negative energy ’ ( not a term used by Freud ) , was needed to counterbalance the positive , life-affirming energy of the sexual instincts . |
| 3 | According to the reports , Dr Asvat was killed after he had been called to the old Mandela home to examine Stompie when he was beaten . |
| 4 | He sent for Astorre , and there appeared instead Thomas , who reported smartly that Captain Astorre had been called to Nicosia , and Master Tobie and Messer le Grant with him . |
| 5 | In the snow between Porretta and Bologna , where Nicholas had been called to the rescue , and Ansaldo her lover had died . |
| 6 | It had been no coincidence that she had been called to the phone in the weighing room . |
| 7 | Police said her condition was ‘ very serious ’ and her relatives had been called to her bedside . |
| 8 | Blonde Lesley , 29 , had been called to a house break-in in the Wavertree area of Liverpool . |
| 9 | Police had been called to a domestic row at the house earlier . |
| 10 | Then he went on to a merciless performance as an inarticulate Garda , who had been called to the school to deliver the annual lecture on road safety . |
| 11 | The sermon he preached was scholarly , and explained why he had been called to this well-found charge and to the chaplaincy . |
| 12 | As a result , Lewis 's manager Frank Maloney has been called to a meeting in New York this week with promoter Dan Duva and Bowe 's outspoken manager Rock Newman . |
| 13 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
| 14 | Dexter assumed this happened just after Nicola had been called to the phone . |
| 15 | , William Arthur Smith ( 1854–1924 ) , metalwork designer , was born at 6 Sussex Square , Paddington , London , 17 October 1854 , the eldest in the family of four sons and two daughters of William Benson ( 1816–1887 ) , who had been called to the bar , and his wife Elizabeth Soulsby , daughter of Thomas Smith of Colebrook Park , Tonbridge . |
| 16 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 17 | The police had been called to a youth club where they had been asked by one of the supervisors to assist in excluding trespassers before the evening 's festivities got under way . |
| 18 | The world is in turmoil with civil strife and stress ; as Christ 's followers , we have been called to be peacemakers , and so we pray for peace in God 's world . |
| 19 | Three weeks ago , we looked at God 's call to Jeremiah ; it taught us about God , and about the prophet who had been called to be God 's spokesman to His people Israel . |
| 20 | Paul has been called to be a servant of Jesus Christ ; so have we . |
| 21 | ‘ Edmund knew that some of the garrison had been called to Lincoln to fight for Matilda . |
| 22 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 23 | It has recently been called to our attention that Innocent added the notion of the Church of purgatory to the Church militant ( the Church on earth ) and the Church triumphant ( the Church in heaven ) , championing the idea of three armies that acted through fire , combat and praise . |
| 24 | An " unnatural light " allowed " never-resting labour " to work at night ; labour which had been called to " unceasing toil " by a bell " of harsher import than the curfew-knoll / That spake the Norman Conqueror 's stern behest " . |
| 25 | The idea is to imagine you have been called to a ‘ convention ’ to set the rules of the constitution and the social and economic structure of society . |
| 26 | By Miliutin 's reckoning , no more than 1.8 million men could actually be enlisted , and 800,000 of these had been called to the colours already . |
| 27 | Yet each has been called to be something else : |
| 28 | And Lincoln was criticized , attacked for this , that er and he said in response to this the attention of the country has been called to the proposition that one who is sworn as the constitution says to take care that the laws be faithfully executed should himself not violate those laws a fairly reasonable proposition you might think , if your oath says to uphold the law then you start going round breaking the law er something wrong here somewhere methinks . |
| 29 | His parents were found dead at their house by firemen who 'd been called to their cottage in Tetbury . |
| 30 | Police had been called to Moreton Valence by neighbours , who had some sympathy for the travellers as well as the police . |