Example sentences of "[pers pn] was called to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was called to the administration block of the hospital and later went to register the death , and to make an appointment with an undertaker — this was for ten o'clock the next morning . |
| 2 | One such dreadful night I was called to the gate house by Mr Rideout , our so loyal and efficient gate porter . |
| 3 | So , imagine my relief when I was called to the front porch , and I was greeted by a cheery ‘ American Red Cross reporting for duty Ma'am . |
| 4 | The first week in July I was called to the Malet Street premises of the University . |
| 5 | She was called to the phone just before breakfast and she knew who it was before she even heard that deep Australian twang . |
| 6 | In 1988 she was called to the bar and now practises in London . |
| 7 | After a brilliant student career at the Sorbonne he was called to the Paris Bar in 1926 . |
| 8 | After several warnings he was called to the front of the class , told to hold out his hand and caned by Miss Smith with the flat of a foot ruler . |
| 9 | Half-way through the work , he was called to the office of Mother Superior . |
| 10 | He was called to the bar by Gray 's Inn in 1936 . |
| 11 | In 1806 he was called to the Irish bar and took silk twenty years later . |
| 12 | He was called to the bar ( Inner Temple ) in 1775 and joined the Norfolk circuit . |
| 13 | He was called to the bar in 1609 . |
| 14 | Between interludes as assistant to ( Sir ) William Drummond [ q.v. ] , envoy at Naples , and captain of volunteers , he was called to the bar ( 1803 ) . |
| 15 | He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1856 . |
| 16 | In 1861 he was called to the bar ( Inner Temple ) , but before long , through his father 's association with the inventor and arms manufacturer W. G. Armstrong ( later Baron Armstrong of Craigside , q.v. ) , became the London manager of Armstrong 's engineering firm , a post which involved business relations with foreign governments . |
| 17 | On coming down , he was called to the bar in 1880 ( Inner Temple ) but soon abandoned legal practice . |
| 18 | He was called to the bar in 1843 and for most of the rest of his life he practised as a conveyancer . |
| 19 | In June 1567 , he was called to the bar and a year later he published his Archaionomia , a translation of the Anglo Saxon laws . |
| 20 | He was called to the Bar when he left Oxford . |
| 21 | He was called to the next bungalow ; the woman 's trying to sell it ; and there he saw the happy couple saying goodbye to each other . |
| 22 | Twice he was called to the telephone just before the curtain went up and he had long intense conversations with his hand over the mouthpiece . |
| 23 | He was called to the bar in 1948 and became a QC in 1967 . |
| 24 | Educated at Belfast Royal Academy , Queen 's University and Trinity College in Dublin , he was called to the English bar at Gray 's Inn in 1945 . |
| 25 | After studying law at the Inns of Court in London he was called to the bar in 1985 and moved with his wife Carole-Ann to Eaglescliffe . |