Example sentences of "[was/were] call [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen and Tony were both in reserved occupations but Joe and Terry were called up into the Irish Guards and sent to Caterham Barracks and a week later Eileen left for the WAAFs . |
| 2 | Some interesting names were called up by the Welsh selectors . |
| 3 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 4 | Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute . |
| 5 | However , mass meetings organized in Vietnam to condemn " counter-revolutionaries in Poland " were called off after the Polish government formally protested at Vietnam 's " interference " in Poland 's internal affairs . |
| 6 | Police were called in after the fourteen month old grey colt was found dead on a farm on road in Lincoln . |
| 7 | Two engines from Weeley and Clacton were called out to the reported barn fire just before 8 pm , but they soon realised they would need reinforcements , including the rescue tender from Colchester . |
| 8 | Our names and numbers were called out in the next group , so we joined the slowly moving line of girls and passed through the demobilisation process almost together . |
| 9 | It was n't until the ninth week that orders finally came through and they were called back to the man-made square . |
| 10 | Lawrence had been drafted into the lineup following a finger injury suffered by Chris Lewis , while Botham was called up at the 11th hour to win his 100th cap when Derek Pringle 's sore back failed to respond to treatment . |
| 11 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 12 | A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute . |
| 13 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 14 | The plan was called off at the last moment . |
| 15 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 16 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 17 | The strike was called off on the following day . |
| 18 | The round was called off after the injured Andy Galvin was taken hospital . |
| 19 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 20 | Last year Professor Brown was called in by the Italian government shortly after Mount Etna erupted . |
| 21 | In the 1980s much was achieved in the economy and many essential and fundamental changes had to be made after the IMF was called in in the late 1970s when Labour was in power . |
| 22 | In these uncertain and troubled circumstances he was called back to the one thing outside his faith in which he could place his trust . |
| 23 | I remember once we was called out on the actual called out for actual sighting of s there was supposed to have been some activity over er Bentley so we was all called out and the assembly point was at Tolbertstead 's works in Green Lane and we assembled er in the , at Tolberstead 's and then we was sent out as search groups er from there right across Bentley . |