Example sentences of "call [pers pn] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raised to believe the police are ‘ born to serve ’ , they have no hesitation in calling them to their aid . |
| 2 | All of them were drawn together on the basis of a conviction similar to our own that God was calling them to something new . |
| 3 | The employers took advantage of this and exploited their journeymen by " letting them play in the morning " and calling them from their " houses of call " in the afternoon . |
| 4 | Addressing someone as ‘ young man ’ or ‘ old boy ’ , shortening their name without their consent , or calling them by their surname alone , are all instances where forms of address may be used to denote the speaker 's higher status . |
| 5 | So he , he went , course he had us calling like I 'm calling Gemma , Gemma and Jade and so he is going calling them by their names ! |
| 6 | And all the while Shelly 's smelly libido was wafting up my nose , calling me to her . |
| 7 | I started siding stuff then , an' sweeping an' doing ; and I expected he 'd begin a calling me for my idle ways . |
| 8 | If , on the other hand , God should have ordained for me thus , miserable and wretched as I am , and should have called me by His grace to sit solitary and serve him in that manner , as he deigns to grant to me , shall I not persevere in that calling ? |
| 9 | She mostly calls me by my last name . |
| 10 | and start calling you behind your back cos you 'll find out |
| 11 | ‘ I heard another teacher calling you by it just before we came in , ’ Matilda said . |
| 12 | Similarly , upon receiving a client , immediately introduce yourself by name , and preferably also by card , so that in two minutes the client is calling you by your own name and feels you have been handling his business all his life . |
| 13 | When it finished , there was lunch and music : all her favourite foods calling her with their rich odours of spiced meats and pasta . |
| 14 | Because she disliked it so , he found a fleeting pleasure in calling her by her first name . |
| 15 | She did not quite like the way he kept calling her by her name ; there was a humorous inflection on the three liquid syllables as though he found the name funny . |
| 16 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 17 | To her ears the pattering and shshing of the water gurgling in drains sounded like a sort of singing every now and then , an aural counterpart to her inward calling his name , calling him to her . |
| 18 | A SMART sales rep persuaded a thief to return her stolen car by calling him on her mobile phone . |
| 19 | And if your friend , the bridegroom , or the bride 's father-in-law or another older man is usually called ‘ Al ’ , on this occasion should you be calling him by his full name , ( and if so , is that short for Albert , Alfred , Ali , Alexis , Alexander , or , even more formally , Mr Smith ? |
| 20 | It was the headmaster , calling him from his sitting-room window . |
| 21 | God has called her to Himself … |
| 22 | Called her by her alias . |
| 23 | One , she felt , was taking advantage of Bernard and her by knowing about the business — he had requested some shares in the company , which she considered an outrageous request ; another had called her by her Christian name which was equally unacceptable . |
| 24 | And he had called her by her full Greek name too , as if to remind her that he knew it . |
| 25 | And there was some mystery about her because the kids ' names unless my mother always called her by her , by her name before she was married , but she always called her , and yet the boys was . |
| 26 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
| 27 | She had called him by his name — a thing she had so far refused to do . |
| 28 | Mr Gould , who in describing this new species did me the honour of calling it after my name , states , that besides the smaller size and different colour of the plumage , the beak is of considerably less proportional dimensions than in the common Rhea ; that the tarsi are covered with differently-shaped scales , and that they are feathered six inches beneath the knee . |
| 29 | Whereas Deneuve was able to delegate her ageing to a stuntwoman and dummies ( thus preserving her ‘ look ’ , as she calls it in her very precise and fluent English ) , Bowie had to act several scenes as he aged catastrophically through lack of fresh blood and then , despite one last desperate murder , perishes . |
| 30 | The comrades we have been teaching are very pleasant , but a bit more reticent than elsewhere — the people at Peking and Sian got round to calling us by our first names , but here it 's ‘ miss ’ and ‘ Professor ’ ( or , to give my name in Chinese ) . |