Example sentences of "when he called the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , was advised when he called the elections that his Congress Party was likely to win some 70 seats in the south . |
| 2 | When he called the 1974 general election , Mr Powell felt he could not support his party . |
| 3 | The preacher overstepped the mark when he called the Royal Mail to a halt on the moor near Bagshot . |
| 4 | When political considerations took primacy over whether qualifications it is not surprising that some of the appointments were given to candidates ill-suited to the duties they were called upon to perform , such as the Lanarkshire freeholder appointed macer of the Court of Session who , according to James Boswell , ‘ had a constant hoarseness , so that he could scarcely be heard when he called the causes and the lawyers , and was indeed as unfit for a crier of court as a man could be . |
| 5 | At first he thought he 'd been burgled , but he was astonished to find when he called the police that they 'd done it . |
| 6 | The shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke , was given a polite , if muted , response when he called the sackings an affront to decency and justice but stopped short of endorsing a call for a national strike . |