Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] call to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police equipped with riot gear were called to the scene . |
| 2 | In quick succession , the remaining two brothers were called to the stand . |
| 3 | Kathleen was called to the phone and discovered her mother crying and laughing all at once , with all the family , it seemed , lined up behind her waiting to talk . |
| 4 | In September last year an ambulance was called to the couple 's home in St Aidan 's Drive , Middlesbrough . |
| 5 | One day Victoria and Alexander were called to the drawing room after tea and saw a strange woman in a dress printed with yellow lemons sitting on the fender beside their father . |
| 6 | Six fire crews , the Colchester rescue tender and a control vehicle were called to the blaze . |
| 7 | Britain 's High Commissioner and ambassadors of the United States and other countries were called to the Foreign Ministry in Valletta to be told . |
| 8 | Fire crews were called to the house in Banbury at six o clock yesterday morning . |
| 9 | Fire crews were called to the Grosvenor House building next door to the bus station early this morning . |
| 10 | Towards the end of the week Katherine was called to the telephone . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A fire crew from the town 's station were called to the scene and they managed to free him within minutes . |
| 15 | Specialist officers were called to the scene including armed police and trained negotiators . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | But before they could start in , Rose was called to the telephone . |
| 18 | IT WAS all cisterns go yesterday when a Sudbury toddler let potty training go to his head and firefighters were called to the rescue . |
| 19 | Firefighters were called to the county library in Grammar School Lane , Northallerton , when a blaze broke out in the lift shaft . |
| 20 | Firefighters were called to the county library in Grammar School Lane , Northallerton , when a blaze broke out in the lift shaft . |
| 21 | More than 45 firefighters were called to the scene at Preston Brook on the M56 in Cheshire after the tanker carrying kerosene crashed on to the Liverpool to London line . |
| 22 | More than once , right-wing union leaders have been left fuming in their seats as a stream of party activists were called to the rostrum . |
| 23 | Lawrence was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1906 ( bencher 1932 , treasurer 1955 ) , and had a steady unspectacular career with such positions as counsel to the Jockey Club , chairman of Wiltshire quarter sessions , and recorder of Oxford . |
| 24 | The Redcar offshore lifeboat was called to the aid of a fishing vessel which broke down off the coast yesterday . |
| 25 | A Home Office pathologist was called to the scene . |
| 26 | Bomb experts were called to the woods near Redcar , Cleveland , to blow it up . |
| 27 | By the time Richard and Murray were called to the headmaster 's study a sheaf of publications headlining the incident were laid out on the large drum table . |
| 28 | Police were called to the shop in Southampton after a passer-by spotted Urben lowering himself through the roof into the showroom . |
| 29 | Gardner , 27 , was charged after police were called to the terraced home he shares with Joanne Gibson and their two-year-old son Liam . |
| 30 | Following another violent incident police were called to the White Hart pub , Boreham , where officers found a 20-year old man lying on the floor with a knife still embedded in his back . |