Example sentences of "[vb past] called for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had called for Doyle , and Doyle had turned the clock back , and come to make the arrest in person . |
| 2 | Following TODAY 's campaign , it was understood yesterday that the Attorney General had called for papers which would enable him to consider the case . |
| 3 | Initial reports that the local garrison of the ( Serb-dominated ) Yugoslav People 's Army had turned out to assist the Knin insurgents proved to be false ( on Aug. 14 Serbian National Council leader Jovan Raskovic had called for army protection should the referendum be prevented ) . |
| 4 | While both the BSP and the UDF had called for calm , the UDF had refused to sign a BSP-inspired non-violence declaration ( which many opposition parties rejected as a BSP propaganda ploy ) , issuing instead on May 27 its own non-violence declaration , which included the rejection of violence , government overthrow by force and racial discrimination . |
| 5 | Relations were strained further after reports on Oct. 4 that US Congressmen , led by a Democratic senator , Stephen Solarz , had called for US aid to be suspended unless the PPP was allowed to contest the elections . |
| 6 | On Jan. 29 the Federal Executive Council ( Cabinet ) had called for dialogue to end the violence . |
| 7 | The NSF , whose joint leaders were Ilya Konstantinov ( who had organized opposition meetings reported in August see p. 39058 ) and G. Zyuganov , had been established on Oct. 24 at a meeting in Moscow attended by up to 3,000 delegates , which had called for Yeltsin 's removal . |
| 8 | The Communist Manifesto published in 1848 had called for communists to make the ‘ abolition of the distinction between town and country ’ one of their chief aims . |
| 9 | Between the sessions , Pope Paul had called for restraint on this topic , and on 28 October Cardinal Agagianian announced that some matters would not be brought to the Council floor in a move widely interpreted as favourable to the conservative forces in the curia . |
| 10 | The two told how Pringle had called for Jason at his home in Geneva Road , Darlington , on Sunday afternoon and they had gone for a ride around in a van . |
| 11 | EXTRA COST Although local authorities , countryside groups and individuals had called for sections of the line from Lackenby to Picton and Picton to Shipton to be laid underground , the area did not merit the extra expense , he said . |
| 12 | Talks on a post-war coalition concluded indecisively , but the Prime Minister had called for progress to be made on plans for full employment . |
| 13 | Some of the demonstrators , Tass reported , had put forward ‘ nationalist , anti-socialist slogans ’ and had called for strikes , civil disobedience and the liquidation of Soviet power in Georgia ; some ‘ extremists ’ had been armed with sticks , stones and metal objects . |
| 14 | Tommaso had called for action , for striking a blow . |
| 15 | At the conclusion of his speech in New Delhi on 10 December Brezhnev had called for understanding and support for his initiative in India . |
| 16 | He was recruited into the second Special Boat Section operating across the Channel from Dover , after the second-in-command of No. 1 Troop had called for volunteers — duties unspecified — as the Troop walked by his chair in the middle of a field . |
| 17 | On Jan. 24 a spokesman for the Islamic Tahrir ( Liberation ) party , Atta Abu Rushtah , was arrested by security forces after a press conference in which he had called for suicide attacks to be launched on Western and allied interests throughout the world in retaliation for attacks on Iraq . |
| 18 | He had called for Etienne some time ago , and was still waiting ; it gratified him to think that he would at least have an excuse to send the stupid pig on ahead of him . |
| 19 | Mr Gould had urged a referendum on the Maastricht treaty and Mr Blunkett had called for sterling to be revalued in the ERM . |
| 20 | Trevelyan 's first draft of the UDC 's four points had called for negotiations with democratic movements on the continent ‘ to form an international understanding depending on popular parties rather than on governments ’ . |
| 21 | In the 1950s the Church of England had called for reform of the law under which gay sex was illegal under all circumstances , though it still held the position that such acts were immoral . |
| 22 | The US Congress had called for concessions in these areas as a condition for renewing China 's most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trading status in 1992 [ see p. 38339 ] . |