Example sentences of "call for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middleton said his friend David had called for him at 10pm on the night the bank was broken into and asked him to drive a car to Jedburgh . |
| 2 | Ralph ( Hyacinth had been swiftly urged to drop the ‘ Sir ’ by her genial host ) called for him to be removed , by force if necessary , refusing to believe that so demotic a figure belonged to ‘ our great Party ’ . |
| 3 | Today Miss Knox said she was ‘ outraged ’ to learn that the man who assaulted her , supervisor Brian McConville , was still employed at Lurgan Community Workshop and called for him to be sacked . |
| 4 | My grandmother was taken ill with a burst ulcer and an ambulance was called for her at 10.45 , but it did not arrive for two and a half hours . |
| 5 | A value added tax ( VAT ) , replacing the general sales tax ( GST ) , was introduced on Sept. 30 , as thousands of protestors called for it to be abandoned in demonstrations throughout the country . |
| 6 | A Darlington councillor who , of course , had n't seen the production called for it to be banned . |
| 7 | Dee 's calling for me at ten . |
| 8 | For in between the two pages of words he had brought himself off , face stretched tight with lust , mind gurgling with images of the girl with black hair and red boots kneeling on a bed so that her full young breasts with long pink nipples dangled into his palms as he mounted her from behind , calling for her to cream , baby , cream . |
| 9 | In late September , she killed a dog , and 300 local people signed a petition calling for her to be removed . |
| 10 | She grew a little confused as to which was day and which was night , and increasingly wanted Alexandra there , calling for her in her faint cracked voice , if she woke and found her customary chair empty . |
| 11 | The car would now be calling for him at seven . |
| 12 | from Northern Ireland there 's big Billy Hamilton … he 's an old Oxford favourite … the fans were calling for him on saturday … he 's done well with Distillery … |
| 13 | from Northern Ireland there 's big Billy Hamilton … he 's an old Oxford favourite … the fans were calling for him on saturday … he 's done well with Distillery … |
| 14 | He says if people had listen to the voices who were calling for him to be locked up then he would n't have had this chance to show an improvement . |
| 15 | The Foreign Office is calling for them to be freed on bail.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 16 | Some Party members , however , were calling for it to be banned . |
| 17 | Furious Geet FM bosses have organised huge public meetings and demonstrations calling for it to be allowed to remain on the air . |
| 18 | However , Zafy rejected the settlement on Nov. 7 , calling for it to be renegotiated in order to re-balance the powers of the various transitional authorities . |
| 19 | He calls for me at nine , |
| 20 | I 'm gon na call for him on the way . |
| 21 | If you 'd like to come , I 'll call for you at 6pm . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll call for you at eight-thirty p.m . |
| 23 | I 'll call for you at eight-thirty if you promise to leave the briefcase at home . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , give me the name of your hotel , then , and I 'll call for you at , say , seven . |
| 25 | He opened it and said over his shoulder , ‘ I 'll call for you at seven-thirty . |
| 26 | When , a few minutes later , she stopped the car and said , ‘ I 'll call for you at seven . |
| 27 | Then I 'll call for you for dinner at eight-thirty , Paige . ’ |
| 28 | I 'll call for you in my car tomorrow . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll call for you after lunch , and we can go shopping for all the things I thought you 'd like to choose for yourself . ’ |
| 30 | Can you call for it to Derby ? |