Example sentences of "called [adv prt] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When called on by government to act in time of war , citizens have been prepared to respond . |
| 2 | His firm was called on by Tesco plc , now one of Britain 's leading supermarket chains , when Ian MacLauren was building up his new team . |
| 3 | As a result he became the most knowledgeable and influential European in that part of Africa and was continually being called on by traders , missionaries , and humanitarians for advice or to sort out local disputes . |
| 4 | North lent a good deal of encouragement to Thomas Dowling , ‘ the priest for the contras ’ , who was called in by Calero to say Mass in the camps in Honduras ; but Dowling found the contras drifting , rather than committed . |
| 5 | Central 's fraud officers were called in by Falkirk after an independent auditors ' report on the club 's finances . |
| 6 | Finnegan has been under investigation after detectives were called in by creditors of North of England Investments who lost money in the company which collapsed last year . |
| 7 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 8 | MEDICAL experts are to be called in by Middlesbrough council to report on the effects of hypnotism . |
| 9 | Detectives have been to the island , which covers 39 square miles , three times since they were called in by Christopher Turner , the former Governor . |
| 10 | United 's youth development officer was called in by Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan on Friday and told he was being fired . |
| 11 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |
| 12 | Danny McCann , Mairead Farrell and Sean Savage died in the 1988 shootings after the SAS were called in by Gibraltar 's police commissioner to help round up what was believed to be an IRA active service unit preparing an attack against British troops stationed there . |
| 13 | He then said he was an ‘ emergency doctor ’ called in by police to examine rape victims after attacks . |
| 14 | PROFESSIONAL hunters called in by police were today searching for a great white shark that killed a scuba diver on his honeymoon . |
| 15 | Meanwhile Hartlepool Labour candidate Peter Mandelson has been called in by trainees from Billingham 's Astra Training Centre . |
| 16 | The receivers were called in by Burlington International in Northampton today and all ( 400 ) workers sent home . |
| 17 | It was eventually called off by DPP leaders after the Kuomintang agreed to consider revising part of its constitutional amendment package . |
| 18 | ‘ When I said Slaven was not available I had no idea Pears would be called up by England . |
| 19 | You may input an unlimited number of addresses which may be called up by name , town , any of two user-defined fields or simply scroll through the list in ‘ Rolodex ’ fashion . |
| 20 | You may input an unlimited number of addresses which may be called up by name , town , any of two user-defined fields or simply scroll through the list in ‘ Rolodex ’ fashion . |
| 21 | THE England and Wasps wing Simon Smith has been called up by London for their divisional match against the South-West at Imber Court tomorrow . |
| 22 | THE England and Wasps wing Simon Smith has been called up by London for their divisional match against the South-West at Imber Court tomorrow . |
| 23 | The second was called up by reference to Archbold , Criminal Pleading Evidence & Practice , 44th ed. ( 1992 ) , vol. 1 , p. 433 , para. 4–45 . |
| 24 | Experienced Richie Jenkins is one of three all-rounders called up by Talybont who also include Andy Ackroyd and student Ashad Malik . |
| 25 | I woke to manoeuvre a rock under the groundsheet , then to put cream on my burning ears , later to pull my knees up to my chin to get warm , then to eat some dates , and finally when I was called out by diarrhoea . |
| 26 | Members of the Skye mountain rescue team were also called out by police at Portree . |