Example sentences of "[was/were] call to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gardner , 27 , was charged after police were called to the terraced home he shares with Joanne Gibson and their two-year-old son Liam . |
| 2 | Each year , when shooting , stalking and fishing guests departed , estate employees were called to the great house to work in the armoury , which had one of the finest collections of antique weapons in Scotland : claymores , dirks , shields , spears and guns . |
| 3 | Britain 's High Commissioner and ambassadors of the United States and other countries were called to the Foreign Ministry in Valletta to be told . |
| 4 | Three fire engines were called to the Sweet and Savoury food factory on the Oakesway Trading Estate in Hartlepool to fight a blaze which severely damaged a filtration plant . |
| 5 | Two fire engines were called to the Sweet and Savoury factory on the Oakesway Trading Estate in Hartlepool to tackle a fire which destroyed the thermostat and motor on a packaging machine . |
| 6 | Fire crews from across Oxfordshire were called to the Holy Trinity School in Chipping Norton around eleven thirty yesterday morning . |
| 7 | In 1806 he was called to the Irish bar and took silk twenty years later . |
| 8 | During these years he found time to study law and in 1873 was called to the Irish bar . |
| 9 | So , imagine my relief when I was called to the front porch , and I was greeted by a cheery ‘ American Red Cross reporting for duty Ma'am . |
| 10 | A bomb disposal squad was called to the main postal sorting office in the French port of Le Havre after one of the postmen on duty detected a sinister ticking inside a parcel he was handling . |
| 11 | German Ambassador Herman von Richtofen — a nephew of the German First World War air hero the Red Baron — was called to the Foreign Office for a ‘ carpeting ’ . |
| 12 | Educated at Belfast Royal Academy , Queen 's University and Trinity College in Dublin , he was called to the English bar at Gray 's Inn in 1945 . |
| 13 | Educated at Eton and Cambridge , Mr Clark Hutchison was called to the English Bar in 1937 and worked in South America and Australia until volunteering as a private soldier in the Australian Army in 1939 . |
| 14 | He was called to the next bungalow ; the woman 's trying to sell it ; and there he saw the happy couple saying goodbye to each other . |