Example sentences of "called [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 When a canvasser called during the election run-up , he decided to rejoin .
2 ‘ Shitfire , ’ she called through the partly closed door .
3 ‘ Do n't be a bore , Dem , ’ Larry called through the hatch .
4 ‘ Where d' ya wan na go , bub ? ’ he called through the open window .
5 In a move for which he would later pay , he called for the persecution of Deng Xiaoping , who was banished from office and attacked as second only to Liu as China 's ‘ leading capitalist roader ’ .
6 Ms Willbourne also called for the civil courts to be given new powers to exclude an abuser from the home instead of the child .
7 The letter in the Leipziger Volkszeitung called for the use of ‘ weapons , if need be ’ .
8 At the Ninth All-Russian Congress of Soviets on 22 December 1921 , Lenin called for the reform of the Cheka. since NEP required more ‘ revolutionary legality ’ .
9 At the end of her life Rosa Luxembourg called for the abolishment of trade unions and promoted the view that workers ' councils were essential organisations in the establishment of socialism .
10 THE National Front leader , Mr Jean-Marie Le Pen , yesterday called for the mass expulsion of coloured immigrants as the government announced emergency integration measures .
11 It called for the repeal of legislation ‘ which leads to the victimisation of the poor ’ .
12 President Franois Mitterrand of France yesterday called for the deportation of illegal immigrants and for sanctions against their employers , but said he believed guest workers should have voting rights .
13 Mr Mackeson-Sandbach also called for the board to be strengthened , a demand subsequently reinforced by one of Sir Basil 's sons , Mr Adrian de Ferranti .
14 Spain called for the fighting to be stopped after Juan Moreno , a photographer for the newspaper El Pais , was killed in crossfire .
15 They based the Alliance 's first ‘ Force Goals ’ upon outdated concepts that called for the deployment of very large conventional forces by the Alliance .
16 On January 17th , the day after Mr Gorbachev called for the suspension of a new law designed to guarantee press freedom , Nezavisimaya Gazeta published a white space on its front page captioned : ‘ This is what Soviet newspapers will look like after political censorship is reimposed . ’
17 Mr Hurd 's speech this week in Luxembourg , which called for the European Council ( as summits are known ) to have strong links with a reinforced WEU , would not have been made in Mrs Thatcher 's day .
18 Mr Dewar called for the setting up of a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs — it was , he said ‘ a disgrace that the Scottish Office uniquely has not been subject to proper Parliamentary scrutiny ’ .
19 Then , through a series of interpreters , they called for the Nez Perce to cease making war upon other tribes , so that a trading post could be established .
20 When they do vote , they usually cast their votes on national issues : Neil Kinnock called for the June 1989 elections to be a judgement on Mrs Thatcher 's term in office .
21 Romantic poets such as Novalis and Arndt gave expression to this idea and made it famous , but it dates at least from Leibniz 's great political tract , Caesarinus Furstenerius ( De Supremum Principum Germaniae ) written in 1677 which called for the unification of Christendom and , thus , of Germany .
22 There had been a highly amusing interlude , when they called for the photographs .
23 Janet Willcock called for the unity of all radical opinion in Derry ; Eamonn McCann said that Terence O'Neill could not be distinguished from Lord Brookeborough and that reference to liberal unionism was double talk .
24 The march stopped outside Paddington Green Police Station , the main PTA ( Prevention of Terrorism Act ) detention centre in Britain , where the demonstrators called for the removal of the PTA .
25 She also called for the immediate release of the Birmingham Six and other framed Irish prisoners .
26 Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water .
27 We quickly downed ours and he called for the same again .
28 The London SCCs originated in part from the Relief Committees established in 1899 by the School Board , and continued by the LCC until they were renamed in 1907 when the Council put into effect section ( 1a ) of the Education ( Provision of Meals ) Act 1906 , which called for the establishment of Canteen Committees .
29 This was not only a matter of pride but was also done to conform to the old City by-law which called for the cleansing of pavements by 3 p.m. each day .
30 The second point is best captured in Peter Hall 's 1982 defence of the enterprise zone model of urban policy , when , perhaps inadvertently , he called for the state to facilitate multinational corporations , ‘ doing in Liverpool what they already do in Singapore or Mexican border cities ’ ( 1982 , p418 ) .
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