Example sentences of "they [vb mod] call " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a darkness , a sinister menace clinging to some of them , as if simply to touch them might call up dreadful visions and evil forces . |
| 2 | It is clear that neither of them could call on the personal loyalty of the royal servants in the duchy . |
| 3 | It is clear that neither of them could call on the personal loyalty of the royal servants in the duchy . |
| 4 | Then suddenly one of them would call out ‘ Aye , aye , lads … here 's the cops ’ and they 'd all move . |
| 5 | The United Kingdom has been spared so far , but while the majority of the population are religiously inactive in terms of church-going , most of them would call themselves Christians , and their spiritual beliefs have been formed by Christian teaching . |
| 6 | Sometimes one of them would call out , softly , and then they 'd all listen . |
| 7 | They are , therefore , formulaic in character and although they may call for some adaptation for contextual fit they are not composed on each occasion from constituent parts . |
| 8 | They may call you for product details or information about the company which makes the product . |
| 9 | I think they 'll settle for five eventually , but you never know with these situations — they may call my bluff . ’ |
| 10 | W/Cpl Burns informs the Volkspoliqei that their request is outside the terms of the Agreement , and that if they want any details they must call for a Soviet officer , to whom the information will be given . |
| 11 | Shortly after that they must call a meeting of their creditors and present a statement of affairs including a list of all the company 's debts . |
| 12 | The Colonel checked with Bill Copland whether they should call it a day : ‘ Certainly not ’ was-the Major 's assured reply , for all felt the confidence of success . |
| 13 | There is talk of setting up a ‘ proud to be perverted ’ pressure group along the lines of Act Up ) , ( perhaps they should call it Strapped Up ) , which will campaign around the issue of consent , the idea that whatever two adults agree to do in the privacy of their own homes is no concern of the courts . |
| 14 | It 's just that they should call that part of their work journalism . |
| 15 | They should call him burglar Brain , the way he pinched it . |
| 16 | I think first of all we want to know er as far as it 's possible , which of course is always er within the limitations of our abilities whether we think he 's a man that we can recommend to the church , that they should call him . |
| 17 | They should call him jammy man . |
| 18 | ‘ They 'll call again , anyway . |
| 19 | The dead and injured — and often there are casualties , particularly in the poorer areas , or the more remote parts of the New Territories countryside — are taken away ; the power lines and landslips are repaired ; the beached ships are tugged off the reefs ; the cost is counted ; and the colonials take to watching , with a curious mixture of pride and nostalgia , as the storm — ‘ our Agnes ’ they 'll call it — wanders away , does some more smashing and battering in Taiwan or the Yangtze valley before petering out , quite spent , and becomes just another statistic for the record books . |
| 20 | If it is , they 'll call back . ’ |
| 21 | Gulag Ollie , they 'll call me . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps they 'll call in on the way home , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 23 | They 'll call up his friends and breathe down the line . |
| 24 | They 'll call you Lazarus ! ’ |
| 25 | However Andrew Newton said : ‘ If they call on expert evidence , they 'll call on me , because I am the expert . |
| 26 | So , I 'm fed up I want to go to Malita And then we get , they 'll call in and say you have n't come up there for a week ! |
| 27 | said they 'll call me |
| 28 | In a city-centre bar , the four members of Eugenius are convening for what they might call work . |
| 29 | At school , you start off , you integrate with everybody right up to the third year so that , in the third year or the fourth year , your friends or who you know as friends , they might call you a ‘ black bastard ’ . |
| 30 | So they might call you Robin Bartholomew Walter , for example . |