Example sentences of "had been call [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been calling out to him , pleading , arms outstretched , ‘ Wait for me . |
| 2 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 3 | Some were housewives who had been called up under the call up for women of forty-five to fifty . |
| 4 | Matthew Parfitt , who was in the reserves , had been called up and May Thorne , to the surprise of everyone , volunteered to deliver the post . |
| 5 | ( The bank clerk who had occupied it had been called up to the army . ) |
| 6 | And many women actually did take to their beds when they were menstruating and erm sort of retired from active life and this was n't possible then because so many women had been called up you know and they had had to be in the army or they had to work in factories and it was n't possible for them to be absent . |
| 7 | He had been called up briefly in 1940 , and had not been returned to School for very long before his death , which came as a great shock . |
| 8 | Chaps had been called up into the army , nearly all of them that worked with us , they were all on army reserve . |
| 9 | Hetty , who had taken her place in the shop , told Anne that two of her brothers who were Reservists had been called up . |
| 10 | John told her that Mick , who had finished his examinations for Higher School Certificate , had been called up for the Royal Air Force . |
| 11 | Mrs Smelley did n't think he should have gone until he had been called up , while Grace was still tending the wounded on the Western Front , so she did n't even know what he had done . |
| 12 | After their first encounter , the couple began seeing one another regularly , but the romance fizzled out after Mr Clinton returned to America , believing he had been called up to fight in the Vietnam war . |
| 13 | To many his shrewdest move was to die , of brain cancer and pneumonia , in May 1987 , before he had been called on to give an account of the role he had played in the affair . |
| 14 | He had been called on to take the job in the name of the Imam and the survival of the Islamic Republic . |
| 15 | I found my father talking to some of them ; he had been called on to act as an interpreter . |
| 16 | On July 14 Ghozali gave evidence to the court about the events of June 1991 , when the army had been called on to the streets of Algiers to combat FIS supporters [ see p. 38312 ] . |
| 17 | He said at Dumfries Sheriff Court that he and his friend had gone to the upstairs lavatory in the dormitory building about half-an-hour after going to bed when they had been called over to the girls ' room . |
| 18 | The undertaker , his wife said , had been called out . |
| 19 | He was duly commissioned , despite his total lack of training or aptitude , on 12 June 1759 and , after his unit had been called out in 1760 , served in various parts of the country , though he soon regretted his patriotic impulse and did not enjoy what he called ‘ my bloodless and inglorious campaigns ’ . |
| 20 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 21 | ( The National Guard had been called out within hours of the looting yesterday afternoon , but bureaucratic muddles — bullets had n't arrived — had kept them from being deployed . ) |
| 22 | Harpenden police confirmed that a unit had been called out to resolve a dispute between Andy Linighan and a taxi driver . |
| 23 | Fortunately the patrol recognized the doctor and my father , and after learning that the doctor had been called out to visit a seriously ill patient , the men saluted and disappeared into the darkness . |
| 24 | She was on her own : Dr Neil had been called out some time ago to attend a woman in childbirth , and Matey had gone to visit an old friend in St John 's Wood , and she was the sole mistress of the doctor 's house in Vetch Street . |
| 25 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |
| 26 | Gallaghers bought the club for £1.25million in 1986 after the receiver had been called in . |
| 27 | When she heard how a new doctor had been called in , all the familiar names having left Florence previously thinking it was to be plunged into war , she felt indignant — why was she not called in , she who knew more about Mrs Browning 's illnesses than any other person ? |
| 28 | During my own research into sea dumping at the time , I was told that in 1976 a team from the Atomic Energy Authority had been called in to decontaminate the Topaz , a ship used to dump Belgian waste , after the wrong type of drum container had been used . |
| 29 | Raymond Starr , Director of Child Care and Family Services , confirmed that his agency had been called in because Orkney Islands Council did not have the resources to deal with a case of this kind . |
| 30 | He would look at Harry , the picture of health and happiness and , while marvelling at his steady uncomplicated progress , suddenly think of the child 's mother , a travesty of the woman he had once known , suffering , it would seem , from chronic post-natal depression , so much so that , on Winifred Shalcross 's advice , a second specialist had been called in . |