Example sentences of "call [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally geometric data is entered directly into the system by calling up the appropriate entry command and responding with the necessary parameters and syntax . |
| 2 | Your body tries to get rid of the ‘ stranger ’ by calling up the immune system , causing a photoallergic reaction . |
| 3 | Some nights , he calls up the late show DJ on the request line . |
| 4 | By the law of association , the material image calls up the mental idea and vice versa . |
| 5 | Two years later the Union President , J. G. Greenhough , called up the old world to attack the new : he expounded traditional Calvinism with its high doctrine of church order although he accepted that it had ‘ little favour ’ in 1895 . |
| 6 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
| 7 | ‘ One of the brothers , you say , called back the young man , and came out afterwards with him . |
| 8 | Captain of Detectives Barton MacLane has called out the National Guard to assist in the search for private detective Richard Quick , who is still at liberty . |
| 9 | This would , he thought , assist in deterrence because ‘ in crude , vulgar minds , the seductive picture of a particularly advantageous crime should immediately call up the associated idea of punishment ’ ( Beccaria , 1963 : 57 ) . |
| 10 | As a last resort you can call out the total number of those present ! |
| 11 | ‘ Did you call back the Cartieri Gallery ? ’ said Lucy suddenly . |
| 12 | Voltage and current signals can be used to pre-set speed or to call up the actual values for speed and torque , and the start/stop functions can be activated using the same method . |
| 13 | I needed to call up the heroic days when Dennis was still around , and we were young and carefree , bonking our brains out while he shouted banalities from the foot of the stairs . |
| 14 | IN A desperate bid to end their goal drought , Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson will become the latest manager to call up the foreign legion tomorrow night . |
| 15 | ‘ The duty engineer will consult the computer before deciding to call out the gritting teams . ’ |
| 16 | One threatened to call out the National Guard to defend Atlanta 's water rights . |
| 17 | Given the order to use the guns we go ahead and , using well-practised procedures , call down the full weight of fire from a notional battery of Abbott self-propelled guns . |
| 18 | And curious peach call up the ticklish nipple , even when |
| 19 | The famous passage about the madeleine , the little cake whose associations call back the forgotten scenes of the narrator 's childhood , would have caused the Hartleian in Wordsworth to applaud . |