Example sentences of "call [adv] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that the navy will now need a new aircraft of some sort to fill the gap until a brand-new attack machine , so far called only the AX , can be produced , the outlook for Grumman is bleak . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've called up the PR firm we normally liaise with and given them the name of the hotel you 're booked into . |
| 3 | A DRIVER called out the AA to repair an oil leak after he hit a frozen turkey lying in the road . |
| 4 | Nevertheless by 1980 Apple was a $300 million company and personal computers had so successfully invaded the office that in 1981 IBM — which had originally scorned the little machine — introduced its first model called simply the IBM PC . |
| 5 | Called simply the Brooklands Club , it aims to follow the old motto about the ‘ right crowd ’ , and offers a full programme of social events plus entry to the members ' lounge and bar . |
| 6 | By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind . |
| 7 | They had rowed about a mile when Talbot called up the Ariadne . |
| 8 | Maybe we should call up the McKeans to say we got back safely ; you can ask after Julie … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And if we 're to outwit these giants , there 's nothing for it but for me to call up the Draoicht Suan . |
| 10 | Ideally it is envisaged that the editor will be able to call up the OED entry and the corresponding Supplement entry to a VDU and carry out all the necessary operations on screen . |
| 11 | Members are invited to log on to their computers and call up the Heisei menu . |