Example sentences of "[be] call [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His misfortune turns out to be a bonus for Portsmouth 's Alan been called up to augment the 17-strong travelling party . |
| 2 | Who knows why certain people are called up to join the Prime Mover ? |
| 3 | As late as the eighteenth century some of the most renowned painters of France , Boucher , Lancret and Watteau among them , found it no more beneath them to paint gallant scenes on the artificial eggs presented by the king to members of his court at Easter than Cellini did to be called on to unpick the precious stones from Clement VII 's tiara as the Imperial troops advanced to sack Rome in 1527 . |
| 4 | Rioting became common and the British Army had to be called in to replace the overstretched Royal Ulster Constabulary . |
| 5 | It seems unlikely , especially in the light of the papal prohibition , that monks would have had either the inclination or the experience to have practised mos teutonicus , and it has been suggested that butchers were called in to perform the grisly deeds . |
| 6 | Lieutenant Guss Braden is called in to unravel the mysterious death and finds himself becoming more than professionally interested in Blair . |
| 7 | Sometimes the sheriff , that medieval ‘ maid-of-all-work ’ , was called in to restrain the oppressive conduct of the Forest wardens . |
| 8 | At Moss Green , GIST was called in to address the second-year class before they made craft mini-options , to stress how important it was for girls to consider getting a grounding in technology . |