Example sentences of "[pron] called in at [art] " in BNC.

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1 I called in at a Sainsbury 's to buy some essential items .
2 I called in at the office on one of my days off , to see what was doing , and found that a posting had come through for me to report forthwith to Group Headquarters at Huntingdon .
3 I had to have a talk with Mrs Rumney and a few days later I called in at The Laurels .
4 Then I called in at the Vecchio Reccione near Stringfellows for a glass of Valpolicella and a bread stick .
5 I called in at the wrong time .
6 It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour .
7 As she called in at the supermercado , toured the fruit and vegetable market , bought chicken legs from the Dutch butcher , a kaleidoscope of questions formed and reformed itself in her head .
8 On our way back we called in at the field centre , a converted ex-shunter 's cabin .
9 The day that made the appointment to see and Co , Nick after coming out of that meeting with Nick , we called in at the office , myself and my wife , and whilst I was tidying some things up because I 'd got the remainder of the afternoon off , Charles ' wife said to my wife , my wife actually broke down in tears , and she says , What 's up ?
10 More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast .
11 And former England skipper Lineker weighed in with his own good wishes for his old Spurs colleagues — he called in at the training ground .
12 When he called in at the offices of Grubworthy and Sting , on his way through London , they were no less honest with him .
13 It was n't until he called in at the vicarage and found the vicar shot , stabbed , strangled and poisoned that I gave up completely .
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