Example sentences of "call [adv prt] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state is called on to perform a number of functions necessary for the smooth development of the capitalist system . |
| 2 | MARINE commandos have been called in to stop a band of poachers preying on England 's last wild herd of red deer . |
| 3 | SOLDIERS gave a devastating display of military muscle when they were called in to recover a truck dumped in a river . |
| 4 | ENVIRONMENT Secretary John Gummer may be called in to save a family of badgers at Berwick . |
| 5 | A ‘ clever man ’ could be called in to effect a cure , and tribal medicine was usually seen as a specialized branch of religion . |
| 6 | He was called in to give a boost to the campaign to get more pupils to have lunch at school … and as Mike Rowbottom found out , he seems to have enjoyed it . |
| 7 | The best , most erotically charged thriller since JAGGED EDGE and FATAL ATTRACTION stars Al Pacino as New York detective Frank Keller , called in to investigate a series of killings : of men who have placed distinctive rhyming ads in the ‘ lonely hearts ’ columns . |
| 8 | But Mr Norman Bell , who drives the No 8 United bus between Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , was called in to learn a survey had found him the friendliest bus driver in Britain . |
| 9 | Grant calls in to get a weather update . |
| 10 | Harpenden police confirmed that a unit had been called out to resolve a dispute between Andy Linighan and a taxi driver . |
| 11 | House blaze : Fire crews were called out to tackle a blaze at a house in The Greenway , Middleton St George yesterday . |
| 12 | FIREMEN were called out to rescue a man and a boy trapped in a river on Saturday night . |
| 13 | To give the walk some point , Will Simpson had decided to call in to see a patient whose son farmed the fields beyond the Heights . |
| 14 | There would be no reserves to call in as the army started to push the enemy forward and nobody to call in to support a fall-back . |