Example sentences of "call [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a brief wave Lindsey hurried along the corridor towards the consulting-room , where she sat at the desk , taking several deep breaths to compose herself before calling for her first patient . |
| 2 | ‘ I really came to see Sophie , but I could n't resist calling on you first . ’ |
| 3 | Women — like children — tend to be called by their first names where men would not be ; and they are also recipients of endearment terms like love , dear , honey , pet , hen and so on . |
| 4 | The first thing I noted favourably was that tutors were now called by their first names . |
| 5 | Everybody is called by their first names ; why ? |
| 6 | The relationship between father and son was always strained and the child insisted on having himself called by his second name , Lawrence , from quite an early age . |
| 7 | What we called in our tenth report ‘ the inviolability of practice ’ , or the tendency to skirt round the issues at the heart of education , needs to be breached . |
| 8 | There was no doubting the eagerness of many colleges to respond to the challenge and the opportunity , and the Board — containing a number of lively young university people and interested employers — was torn between its anxiety to go ahead quickly and the need to ensure that it established what it called at its first meeting ‘ lasting standards ’ . |
| 9 | I made an excuse to call on our twelfth man and I asked him to tell our manager , Khalid Mahmood , what was going on . |
| 10 | ‘ I pay cash on delivery for fish , which the fishermen like , so they always call on me first and we get super turbot , mussels , scallops , sole and plaice here . ’ |