Example sentences of "call [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appealed for members to comment by ringing Brenda on Middlesbrough 244860 or calling in at the club . |
| 2 | There was n't much point in calling in at the shop , so I came straight here . ’ |
| 3 | Some hotshot parents cheat by calling in at the food store and ordering a gourmet prawn salad for 20 — at a cost of $60 . |
| 4 | She was cracking those damn peppermints in her back teeth to disguise the fact she 'd called in at the Oyster Bar on her way up . ’ |
| 5 | It all started early this morning , when a rather anxious mum called in at the office . |
| 6 | She had called in at the office once since she left and had been greeted with pleasure . |
| 7 | Nerina called in at the office to see her mother . |
| 8 | Problems started when a developer for the hotel could not be found , and Mr Graham was called in at the behest of the main creditor , the Bank of Scotland . |
| 9 | The main problem lies in the amount of translation the software will have to do to read the 32 and 16-bit system calls both at the software and network level , Visionware said . |
| 10 | Now , on Saturday morning , she thumped on the cottage door and at the same time leaned back from her ample waist and called up at the casement window . |
| 11 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |
| 12 | Well what does that mean then are you likely to get called out at the middle of the night ? |
| 13 | I had called round at the house early in the week to check on how things had gone over the weekend . |
| 14 | On our way back we called in at the field centre , a converted ex-shunter 's cabin . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | And former England skipper Lineker weighed in with his own good wishes for his old Spurs colleagues — he called in at the training ground . |
| 21 | When the train had gone , she said , ‘ We 'll just call in at the grocer 's , dear . ’ |
| 22 | He could call in at the Informer office in Chancery Lane and use the telephone to arrange a suitably stimulating lunch . |
| 23 | Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend . |
| 24 | You can come back with us now or you can call in at the Incident Room on the Wharf later today if you prefer . ’ |
| 25 | On the way , I 'll call in at the Wheel Room , to feed my poor invalid , then … |
| 26 | Cos I can call in at the bank and get it |
| 27 | Sean called out at the top of his lungs . |
| 28 | He CALLED twice at the station — only to be sent away with a flea in his ear — and LEFT his name and company address so detectives knew where to find him at all times . |
| 29 | Tommaso did not call again at the farm that leave , and after the Easter holidays , Davide went back to Rupe for the short summer school term before the dog days drove most people indoors to keep cool , and some venturesome spirits down to the coast , to the white sand beaches at Dolmetta and Tirrani , where sea bathing was just becoming popular among adults . |
| 30 | But if you do feel like it , you only have to call in at the shop . |