Example sentences of "[was/were] called up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gangs were called up during the war . |
| 2 | Certain children , whose names were on a list , were called up once a day to be given yellow capsules which had to be swallowed in front of the teacher . |
| 3 | That caused a shortage , especially of male dancers , which was worsened when others were called up for military service during the war . |
| 4 | Then more of our staff were called up for service with Queen Alexandra 's Imperial Military Nursing Service . |
| 5 | Key parties of about ten of all ranks from each Company , were called up on 24 August . |
| 6 | Finally we were called up , the gun fired and on this day Lee Macrae decided to have a bad start ! |
| 7 | American children whose mothers were called up during last year 's Gulf War felt they had been abandoned , an in-depth study of their feelings showed . |
| 8 | Some interesting names were called up by the Welsh selectors . |
| 9 | RUGBY Union rookies Tony Underwood and Martin Hynes received a boost to their England hopes yesterday when they were called up for the today 's game against Leicester . |
| 10 | Several people were called up er they were , they were given a white feather were given a white feather for exactly the reason that you mentioned |
| 11 | If you were in London erm you were called up give gave you gave you a white feather cos you were going in the army . . |
| 12 | Chappies off the shop floor were called up so they gradually less from the factory cos er er er there was less male employees in the factory , they went in the servi so outside uni outside people as had volunteered and got their names down that things got organized , the unit was from all over Bloxwich then . |
| 13 | Stephen and Tony were both in reserved occupations but Joe and Terry were called up into the Irish Guards and sent to Caterham Barracks and a week later Eileen left for the WAAFs . |
| 14 | During the great railroad strike of 1877 , for example , 45,000 militiamen were called up in eleven states and more than 100 strikers were killed and several hundred were wounded . |
| 15 | Army reservists were called up in Belgrade on May 7 and soldiers were placed on May 8-9 on guard at three Danube bridges ( hitherto controlled by Croatian police ) amid fears that the tensions would spread to Bosnia-Hercegovinia , where the residents of villages near Listica were blocking the passage of a military convoy into Croatia . |
| 16 | On any day there was a great advantage in arriving at the Board of Trade early , for people were called up in the order in which they handed in their cards . |
| 17 | There is inherent bias in this study , however , as these cases were not shown to be screen negative , and the age at which polyps were found merely reflects the age at which they were called up for screening . |
| 18 | One class , after looking at an old muster roll and hearing how men in their county were called up to fight in the militia , made a cut-out army of 150 cardboard soldiers . |
| 19 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 20 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 21 | Last week 's ‘ new cruzados ’ , ravaged by inflation , are blocked and replaced by cruzeiros ( which happens to be what the currency was called up till 1986 ) . |
| 22 | for the Test , Richards and Edrich returned and , with various fast bowlers injured , Mike Selvey was called up for England . |
| 23 | ‘ He has been seized with his fits three times in the space of seven days , ’ Coleridge wrote to Joseph Cottle on 15 March ; ‘ and just as I was in bed , last night , I was called up again — and from 12 o clock at night to five this morning he remained in one continued state of agoniz 'd Delirium . ’ |
| 24 | It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army . |
| 25 | A twice-cracked shin-bone reduced Ian 's initial impact on his bow in the First Division , although he completely proved his worth among that august company and was called up for England B duty in December 1989 , before the injuries were sustained , but no one , friend or foe alike , will ever forget his dramatic appearance , again as a ‘ super-sub ’ , in the FA Cup Final of 1990 . |
| 26 | When he was called up , the children moved to Hemel Hempstead . |
| 27 | David McIvor came in on the blind-side and Ian Smith was called up when Graham Marshall injured his knee . |
| 28 | Recently he was called up by the Customs and Excise about 20 videos ( mostly tapes from TV ) a friend had sent him from America . |
| 29 | Spurs have called reserve team striker John Hendry into the squad , plus Nicky Barmby , who was called up to the England Under-21 squad this week . |
| 30 | The last time Wright was called up he pulled out of the party even though he played for Arsenal . |