Example sentences of "i was call [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ I was called over so Zoff could put some questions to Paul , they were about training and that 's all I can say about it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He has been seized with his fits three times in the space of seven days , ’ Coleridge wrote to Joseph Cottle on 15 March ; ‘ and just as I was in bed , last night , I was called up again — and from 12 o clock at night to five this morning he remained in one continued state of agoniz 'd Delirium . ’ |
| 3 | One morning I was called up in front of the 2ème Bureau and walked into an office to be interviewed by three Sergeants who spoke perfect English . |
| 4 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 5 | As it happened my ‘ tablees ’ were fine and fun-filled and the only remaining knee jerk came after the Duchess had made an excellent speech and I was called up before 150 people for the photo call , which turned out to be a speech . |
| 6 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 7 | And then from there , in nineteen forty three , I was called up . |
| 8 | A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session . |
| 9 | ‘ Hardly had I arrived there than I was called back to entertain Princess Margaret , who was paying a visit to the studio , ’ recalls executive producer Peter . |
| 10 | I was called back in . |
| 11 | And I was called back and they said Right . |
| 12 | It happened that I was called back to the farm on the following Thursday to " cleanse " a cow and was in the byre when Dodson the drover called to pick up Blossom . |
| 13 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 14 | There was n't any new town or anything and er they 'd built those er Council houses in the front in and he also erm , he said would I like a nice new house , to have plenty of hot water for the boys for bathing and everything , so I moved into a four bedroom and er I was there , er brought my family up there for , till er , unfortunately my mother came to live with me and unfortunately erm I had to go away erm because I was n't very well on a holiday and I was called back cos she was found dead on the toilet my poor mother and er after that erm I came back and erm , in the middle of the week from holiday , oh bother it will it be okay ? |
| 15 | I woke to manoeuvre a rock under the groundsheet , then to put cream on my burning ears , later to pull my knees up to my chin to get warm , then to eat some dates , and finally when I was called out by diarrhoea . |
| 16 | And I said , it was m , I was called out you know a pa , a partner like I said it was Lesley ! |
| 17 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 18 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 19 | I was called in and told the show was too expensive and was stretching facilities far too greatly for a children 's programme . ’ |
| 20 | And then I was called in and nothing was ever said ‘ Well do this because ’ , but it felt that ‘ if you do n't do this … you know ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ When the company reached the point where it could n't meet its liabilities I was called in to wind the business up . ’ |
| 22 | They were arguing about who had the softest fabric and I was called in as arbitrator . |
| 23 | Hello there , erm I was calling in to sort of object to the erm whole presentation of recent events in the , in the Soviet Union . |