Example sentences of "was called to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a brilliant student career at the Sorbonne he was called to the Paris Bar in 1926 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | But fire can happen at any moment : the Red Watch was called to the King 's Cross Underground station fire . |
| 6 | Educated at Swanage Grammar School and Cambridge , he pursued a legal career and was called to the Bar in 1972 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One such dreadful night I was called to the gate house by Mr Rideout , our so loyal and efficient gate porter . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The first week in July I was called to the Malet Street premises of the University . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 12 | All the more remarkable then that in 1829 , a born-deaf person with no speech was called to the Bar and became a barrister . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Half-way through the work , he was called to the office of Mother Superior . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Jackie was called to the hospital early this morning . |
| 17 | The already elderly Prince of Wales was called to the throne on 22 January 1901 , and his coronation , on a magnificent scale , was set for 26 June 1902 . |
| 18 | German Ambassador Herman von Richtofen — a nephew of the German First World War air hero the Red Baron — was called to the Foreign Office for a ‘ carpeting ’ . |
| 19 | A number of troops were stationed in the town , some in the grounds of the workhouse , and others at the Bedford Infirmary , and in January 1915 the master 's attention was called to the need to disinfect military blankets and clothing , and to the provision of baths for verminous soldiers . |
| 20 | The first applicant , Miss Calder , was called to the Bar by Lincoln 's Inn , in November 1978 . |
| 21 | The second applicant , Mr. Persaud , was called to the Bar by Lincoln 's Inn in November 1980 . |
| 22 | When a person was called to the Bar … he was not allowed to practise in the Court of Common Pleas in banco , but he was allowed to practise in the other courts in Westminster Hall … |
| 23 | Towards the end of the week Katherine was called to the telephone . |
| 24 | The food followed quickly , and they both ate the delicious fresh fish with relish , and were enjoying coffee and coconut-cream pie when Stephen was called to the telephone . |
| 25 | He had been a railway worker and was called to the ministry . |
| 26 | In the autumn of 1938 Marcus Oliphant , Professor of Physics at the University of Birmingham , was called to the Air Ministry and charged with the task . |
| 27 | He also studied law and was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1874 . |
| 28 | Two years later he entered Lincoln 's Inn and was called to the bar in 1879 , but he never practised . |
| 29 | He was admitted a student at the Middle Temple on 19 February 1597 and was called to the bar on 19 April 1605 . |
| 30 | He was called to the bar by Gray 's Inn in 1936 . |