Example sentences of "was called [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gossiping , it was called under the regulations . |
| 2 | In October 1940 Joe was called into the RAF where he played in the band of Fighter Command with embryo jazz musicians like trumpeter Kenny Baker and reed player Aubrey Franks . |
| 3 | He was just beginning to worry about his fuel situation when he was called into the searchlight area , only to be fired on by A.A. He advised Control that he was coming in to land and requested that the flare path be lit , but was advised that there was still an alert in force and therefore no flare path could be employed . |
| 4 | Constance had been there just under three weeks when she was called into the fitting room by the vendeuse . |
| 5 | Mike was called into the manager 's office at Vickers shipbuilding division VSEL at Barrow in August and told : ‘ There 's no job for you . ’ |
| 6 | When she was called into the General 's office in the rebuilt International Headquarters in Queen Victoria Street only a couple of hundred yards from St Paul 's Cathedral she had no premonition that further moves were afoot . |
| 7 | I got as far as Birmingham , and then was called into the manager 's office . |
| 8 | He was called into the Northern Ireland manager 's U-21 training squad last summer . |
| 9 | The election , which according to the constitution had to be held by March 1990 , was called following the death in December 1989 of Prime Minister Herbert Blaize [ see p. 37119 ] . |
| 10 | When the name of Holovich was called at the parades and counts , he shouted back ‘ Holly … here ’ and the trifle of the gesture was ignored . |
| 11 | The First Council was called at the Shrine of Asuryan , a year to the day after Aenarion disappeared . |
| 12 | A council was called on the day following Edward 's arrival at which , in accordance with the late King 's wishes , Richard of Gloucester had been declared protector of the king and kingdom . |
| 13 | ‘ Fred ’ as she was called on the circuit , played no less than 26 Federation and Wightman Cup rubbers for Britain , before directing her sporting talents , in a competitive sense , increasingly towards golf to which she had been introduced by her devoted husband Keith , himself a former leading British tennis junior . |
| 14 | The New Zealand openers , veteran John Wright and debutant Blair Hartland , who was appearing on his home ground , were glad to face just 14 balls before a halt was called for the day . |
| 15 | An extraordinary congress of the ruling party , the communist Partido Africano da Indepêndencia de Cabo Verde ( PAICV ) , was called for the latter part of 1990 , after the introduction of a multiparty system had been agreed in principle by the national council — the party 's policy-making body between congresses . |
| 16 | After a brilliant student career at the Sorbonne he was called to the Paris Bar in 1926 . |
| 17 | He resumed his studies in 1948 at New College , Oxford , where he took a first class honours degree and was called to the bar a year later . |
| 18 | I was called to the administration block of the hospital and later went to register the death , and to make an appointment with an undertaker — this was for ten o'clock the next morning . |
| 19 | In 1816 Mrs Hawkes , a pious lady who had herself been a convert of Richard Cecil 's , was called to the death-bed of a Mr Vaughan , whose last hours she described in a letter to a friend : |
| 20 | But fire can happen at any moment : the Red Watch was called to the King 's Cross Underground station fire . |
| 21 | Educated at Swanage Grammar School and Cambridge , he pursued a legal career and was called to the Bar in 1972 . |
| 22 | After several warnings he was called to the front of the class , told to hold out his hand and caned by Miss Smith with the flat of a foot ruler . |
| 23 | One such dreadful night I was called to the gate house by Mr Rideout , our so loyal and efficient gate porter . |
| 24 | So , imagine my relief when I was called to the front porch , and I was greeted by a cheery ‘ American Red Cross reporting for duty Ma'am . |
| 25 | The first week in July I was called to the Malet Street premises of the University . |
| 26 | ‘ Attention was called to the Company 's payment of £50 per annum to the Vicar of Stantonbury for managing these schools , seeing that they are about to be handed over to a School Board and it was agreed that the payment be continued as in respect of Sunday School management , but during the pleasure of the Board and to the present incumbent only ’ . |
| 27 | All the more remarkable then that in 1829 , a born-deaf person with no speech was called to the Bar and became a barrister . |
| 28 | She studied law , was called to the Bar in 1974 , and — falling within the top 5 per cent of all people who have ever been psychometrically tested for verbal critical reasoning skills — would have made a marvellous lawyer . |
| 29 | Half-way through the work , he was called to the office of Mother Superior . |
| 30 | A bomb disposal squad was called to the main postal sorting office in the French port of Le Havre after one of the postmen on duty detected a sinister ticking inside a parcel he was handling . |