Example sentences of "call [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the 1970s , such of these early headhunting characters who still survived could be found occupying the positions of non-executive directors and chairmen of search firms , lending respectability and weight but not necessarily being called on for practical help ; by the 1980s most had disappeared . |
| 2 | If he remained at liberty , he could authorise the calling in of outside help — hence , as insurance , the coup leader 's attempt to destroy the President s reputation by connecting him to the cocaine trade . |
| 3 | I remember watching the last episode on your predecessor ATV when it was repeated in 1976 and the announcer talked of people calling in with various theories about what it was all supposed to mean . |
| 4 | The three alien forms were originally to be realized by Roger Dicken ; but he completed the small forms only , and Rambaldi was called in at short notice to do the Alien head . |
| 5 | He was called in at short notice due to the unfortunate motor accident involving Design Director , Bill Naysmith . |
| 6 | No other home could be found for these cars at short notice , so Cohen 's men were called in with oxy-acetylene torches to break them up on the spot . |
| 7 | But reinforcements were called in from nearby Moorland prison — and the escape was foiled . |
| 8 | Pankanj Maitrey , a 23-year-old left-arm spinner called in from local cricket to help out with nets , skipped to the crease and , with his first ball , knocked back Gooch 's stumps . |
| 9 | That caused a shortage , especially of male dancers , which was worsened when others were called up for military service during the war . |
| 10 | When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945 I had just completed my Higher School Certificate in the traditional three subjects , with a year to spare before being called up for National Service . |
| 11 | It was a relief when , at 21 , Stan was called up for National Service . |
| 12 | If the module is called up by other packages managed by other users , it can only be modified , copied or deleted if the agreement of the relevant package managers is obtained . |
| 13 | If the module is called up by other packages managed by other users , it can only be modified , copied or deleted if the agreement of the relevant package managers is obtained . |
| 14 | Emotions occur in response to actual happenings ; they occur also in response to imagined happenings ; and the latter emotions are real , happening in the present , even though they are called up by unreal situations . |
| 15 | The occult even stoops to necromancy , the claimed practice of calling back into temporary life a dead body for the purposes of extracting information out of its spirit . |
| 16 | Go … " , calling out to individual contestants by their nicknames : " Come on , Ripper ! " |
| 17 | The young man who was to have done it was called back to active service in the RAF and Burton stepped forward . |
| 18 | On 7 July Amedeo wrote a card to his mother telling her , somewhat cruelly , that as Italy was now in the war , he had thought that he might be called back for military service , even though he was an invalid and had felt a slight desire to return to Italy . |
| 19 | Children who have been integrated into mainstream schools can return at any time for help and are called back at six-monthly intervals for checks . |
| 20 | That is , unless the Postman was called out on urgent strike . |
| 21 | I remember once we was called out on the actual called out for actual sighting of s there was supposed to have been some activity over er Bentley so we was all called out and the assembly point was at Tolbertstead 's works in Green Lane and we assembled er in the , at Tolberstead 's and then we was sent out as search groups er from there right across Bentley . |
| 22 | The leader ensures that each item is called out in due course . |
| 23 | Let me call in as assistant instructor none other than Mr Graham Greene , with the advice I have already mentioned from one of his books of autobiography . |
| 24 | I might call back to fucking haunt you you bastard ! |
| 25 | • Tell your friends when you 'll be working and ask them to call round at other times instead . |