Example sentences of "call to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	Shirley , sitting there mildly , the downstairs Shirley , thinking these thoughts , remembering the peremptory demands of the old , the attic Shirley , felt trembling in her , deep deep buried in her sitting-room centrally heated flesh , a wild improper memory , an admissible echo , the faintest thrill of a shudder of remembered desire : Shirley Ablewhite , the bad-good girl , called to her through the knot of her body , painfully , angrily , buried , buried alive , and Shirley Harper half heard her , bent her head , and acknowledged with mixed fear and relief the stirring , the tremor , the sulking , menacing , sweet and half despairing plea .
2	A minute more and she was certain she had walked further than the distance from the van to where Sniffy had called to her from the undergrowth .
3	Harry 's ghost called to her from the stone skull of the castle .
4	The booming surf far below called to her like the beat of a jungle drum .
5	When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing .
6	At first he sounded distant , as if he was calling to her from the basement of a big house , but he came nearer very quickly and suddenly he was shouting in her ear .
7	I felt very lonely , but half an hour later I heard his voice calling to me through the window .
8	And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time .
9	He did not hear Lissa calling to him across the haze that separated them , and he would not come to her .
10	He apologized when he was close enough , because he guessed he had n't been able to hear Lavinia calling to him above the noise of the Suffolk Punch .
11	‘ You can at least decide and call to me through the door , whatever you are busy with . ’
12	He called to me from the place .
13	By this time , she was too weak from hunger and thirst to call to him from the window .

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