Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] call [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have sweet soap here and hot water , and either you wash yourself , all over , or I call in the women to hold you down and scrub you myself . |
| 2 | since you know what the grim reaper does when he or she calls upon you . |
| 3 | In the summer of 1924 , during my first year at Eton , Ras Tafari , later to be Emperor Haile Selassie but at that time Regent , paid a State Visit to England and invited my mother and me to call on him in London . |
| 4 | She shouts that if I get soaked I need n't expect sympathy , and I call for her to join me . |
| 5 | no minute and I call for and ask your Lordship to order the production of any board minute meeting recording that concern of Mr |
| 6 | Colleagues , this is simply not acceptable and I call on Congress to support this resolution and instruct the E C to raise the matter in the proper government departments . |
| 7 | These are mean , niggardly and unnecessary regulations , and I call on all hon. Members who have any decency in them to throw them out . |
| 8 | Members of the jury , it is clear that there is more here than meets the eye and I call on you to reach the only verdict that matches the evidence ; |
| 9 | I take it to be a product of the myth I described above : ‘ I am fighting against the entrenched forces of insular stupidity , and I call upon the French to aid me ! ’ |
| 10 | We therefore move to item one on the agenda which is the local management of primary and secondary schools and I call upon Mr Christopher to introduce the report . |
| 11 | During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course . |
| 12 | But we had walked further than I had realized , and I called to her to come back . |
| 13 | , and I called to Dinda one day look , gosh yeah trying and get a shot of him on a camera , she said I would too , she said try it from upstairs in my bedroom . |
| 14 | When my mother and I called on him he said that if we could wait a few days he would find the right frame and have it stove-enamelled black . |
| 15 | ‘ I finished early and I called at the library for you . |
| 16 | Dr Johnson 's weight interfered with his equestrian comfort , and ‘ upon one of the precipices , my horse , weary with the steepness of the rise , staggered a little , and I called in haste to the Highlander to hold him . |
| 17 | Knowing that fear , she abandoned all pride and she called into the darkness for someone to come and rescue her . |
| 18 | Fellow councillor Margaret Crooks said it was clear the bombing had been an ‘ inside job ’ and she called for those who helped the bombers to be ostracised . |
| 19 | Once I met her carrying several parcels and she called to me . |
| 20 | There now appeared at the door of the house a young woman , and she called in a high voice , ‘ Children ! |
| 21 | ‘ Our club accountant discovered the shortages and we called in the police . ’ |
| 22 | They wanted to see scientific and technical programmes dealing specifically with issues such as employment possibilities for youth , and they called for more cultural programmes reflecting young Chilean people 's interests . |
| 23 | Now , the , the membership of this particular , er , special purposes committee if you like , erm is the core officers and three other members , and they called for volunteers , and one came from Avon , one came from Dorset , put his name forward from Wiltshire . |
| 24 | And they went round on their rounds and they called along every eleven days . |
| 25 | And they called in the School Board man because lots of schools in those days were run by boards or erm governors I suppose they 'd call them today . |
| 26 | The fans have created a special Anglo-Gallic chant for him , and they call for his reinstatement when he is not in the team , as was the case here for all but the last six minutes . |
| 27 | The authors propose two ways forward : they encourage a change in attitudes and they call for some specific legislative measures . |
| 28 | And he called on Mr Mellor to resign as Heritage Secretary , saying : ‘ His days are numbered . ’ |
| 29 | Anyway this man without the arms , he went to and he had er he had er a pocket outside his jacket here , and he he erm got the brooch and he called on the at the house where this woman was and he says , Put your hand into that pocket , he said , and she puts her hand in , Oh , she say , she says , You 've got the brooch . |
| 30 | At the Twenty-Fifth Congress of the CPSU in 1976 Brezhnev stated categorically that ‘ the Soviet Union has never had and has no intention now of building military bases in the Indian Ocean ’ and he called on the United States ‘ to take the same stand ’ . |