Example sentences of "[adv] called [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement
2 Jamie Sylvester , the Glamorgan Seconds and Maesteg Celtic batsman is also called up for his first game of the season .
3 The Manchester United midfielder , originally called up for tomorrow 's friendly in Santander when Trevor Steven withdrew , was suffering from a virus despite his match-winning performance in Sunday 's 2-0 home win over Leeds .
4 In addition to his school life and his theatrical life and his special coaching of the boys , he would play the organ in church ( not chapel : he was an Anglican ) and several times a week work with his boys in the Air Training Corps which he turned into one of the finest in the principality , often called on for show parades .
5 It was cold and windy and yet we were often called out for help in the spasmodic raids on South Kensington and Chelsea .
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