Example sentences of "who have call " in BNC.
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| 1 | You make a cup of tea for a friend who has called around to express their condolences only to find as you pour it out , that there is no tea in the pot . |
| 2 | But such risks press one to go back to God who has called us and to rely on him , and this is so healthy for all Christians . |
| 3 | The ecologists ' leader Brice Lalonde , who has called for a broad-based ‘ Democratic Party ’ , welcomed Mr Rocard 's speech as the first admission by a top Socialist that the party was finished . |
| 4 | The chap who 'd called out was the one in the pub who 'd told Mary Mauchline to go and rattle her can , the same Mary Mauchline he now held in his arms . |
| 5 | Barricaded inside , Roger Jones , a 52 year old self-employed electrician , who 'd allegedly threatened with a shotgun 3 men who 'd called at his home . |
| 6 | No it 's who 've called in to yeah Andy . |
| 7 | So many dyslexic children have been reduced to a state of dreadful anxiety by teachers who 've called them stupid in front of the other children . |
| 8 | She played back the messages on her answerphone and jotted down the numbers and names of the men who had called : Tony , Ali , Geoff , and Junior . |
| 9 | Later I understood why our national hero was so unpopular : he was the Tory minister who had called out the troops against the miners in the 1920s , an action much more pertinent in our mining town than the defeat of Hitler . |
| 10 | In June 1963 , Pope John XXIII , the Pope who had called the second Vatican Council , died . |
| 11 | Which brought Trent to the American who had called himself Steve in Cancun and Robert in Frankfurt . |
| 12 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 13 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 14 | Or old Mike , who had called her father Mr Eddie for years , and saw no reason to change . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( There had earlier been a clash between Dr. Yeats and Lady St. John who had called to inspect the infirmary . |
| 17 | Mullan had had an altercation with a youth who had called Mosley a ‘ Black Bastard ’ . |
| 18 | Both children stopped playing and looked up to see who had called them . |
| 19 | Again , this had some appeal both to the industrial managers of the Federation of British Industry , who had called for ‘ planning ’ at their 1960 conference as a way out of the damaging ‘ stop-go ’ cycle ( Jessop , 1980 ) , and to the party activists for whom ‘ planning ’ meant increased government control over industrial enterprises . |
| 20 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 21 | She was so vulnerable to him that part of her was already accepting that defeat was inevitable , that only Luke could be the one to end their affair , but at the same time pride was demanding resistance , refusing to submit to the humiliation of a physical surrender to the man who had called her a liar , accused her of infidelity — the man who had hurt her so badly . |
| 22 | Whether we call some individuals Ranters , others Levellers , Diggers , Muggletonians , early Quakers and so forth and then present them either as a type of ‘ lunatic fringe ’ to mainstream developments or , as Hill eloquently puts it in his The World Turned Upside Down : ‘ the attempts of various groups of the common people to impose their own solutions to the problems of their time , in opposition to the wishes of their betters who had called them into political action ’ is a matter of current political alignment and represents the way we wish to intervene in the present as in the past . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In July the authorities arrested two leading opponents of the government , Charles Rubia and Kenneth Matiba , who had called for a referendum on the future of one-party rule ; in subsequent protest riots 20 people died [ see p. 37603 ] . |
| 25 | Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi remained closed from the beginning of May following the issuing of a " death sentence " by Moslem fundamentalist students against the pro-Vice-Chancellor , Professor Mushirul Hasan , who had called for the lifting of the ban , in force since October 1988 on the grounds of blasphemy , on the Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses [ see p 36450 ] . |
| 26 | In a sharp exchange through the media on Oct. 12-13 Poltoranin accused Khasbulatov , who had called for his resignation , of " surrounding himself in the Supreme Soviet apparatus with exiles from the former party structures " . |
| 27 | The chair of the Campaign for Democracy , Beko Ransome-Kuti , who had called for a campaign of civil disobedience in the New Year if Babangida did not leave office , was arrested on Dec. 31 and detained for a number of days . |
| 28 | Someone who had called on Angy , found her groomed and perfumed and ready to receive a rival , and been moved to uncontrollable violence by the belief that she had been unfaithful ? |
| 29 | But that Wednesday morning , the few customers who had called for an early drink were much more interested in other underwater creatures : four of them , with sleek black skins and disproportionately large webbed feet , circling up and down , and round and round , and sweeping the depths diligently below the weir , streams of bubbles intermittently rising to the surface from the cylinders strapped to their backs . |
| 30 | The other report was from the DC who had called on Garland 's daughter , Anna , and her mother . |