Example sentences of "call to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am going to make the climb downwards , ’ the Finn called to them . |
| 2 | In addition to the secular names , there is an additional one by which the person is known in the synagogue , by which he is ‘ called to the Torah ’ . |
| 3 | Specifically , it obliges the young person to wear the tefillin ( the symbolic ‘ boxes ’ of the law worn by the orthodox ) when engaged in weekday prayers ; to participate in the synagogue services by being ‘ called to the law ’ ( a particular privilege and responsibility for a Cohen ) ; to be counted as an adult in the community for the purpose of establishing a quorum by which no service ( or synagogue , indeed ) could be instituted . |
| 4 | And he was now frequently called to other public performances ; his first ‘ professional ’ poetry recital was at Dunn 's Jazz Parlour in Montreal , where he recited ‘ Gift ’ to piano accompaniment , in honour of the ancient traditions of poetry . |
| 5 | After a brilliant student career at the Sorbonne he was called to the Paris Bar in 1926 . |
| 6 | Some Anglicans would certainly go further : the Bishop of Birmingham , the Right Rev Mark Santer , who is the Anglican co-chairman of the theological commission trying to overcome doctrinal differences between the two Churches , says : If Anglicans and other non-Roman Catholics really do believe that the Christian Church is called to be at peace with itself , how — given the fact that Christians are sinful — do you actually keep the show together ? |
| 7 | More than once , right-wing union leaders have been left fuming in their seats as a stream of party activists were called to the rostrum . |
| 8 | ‘ There must come a time when it is called to a halt , ’ Lord Donaldson said . |
| 9 | As another explained , ‘ To most people a family row is Mummy and Daddy having a few words ’ , but when police are called to a domestic dispute in some areas of Belfast , |
| 10 | For example , on 11th Night a vehicle was called to some youths at a bonfire near to a middle-class suburban area , and a young recruit was keen to act , but an older constable urged against it : |
| 11 | We were just about to leave when [ the girl ] called to [ the neighbourhood policemen ] . |
| 12 | Like Patriarch Tikhon , but rather later , the Catholic Archbishop Cieplak was called to trial for 17 November 1922 . |
| 13 | She called to Hermione and Joanna and all the girls who had gone already along the paths she had rejected , called to them to wait for her and place their steady walking boots on solid earth to catch her . |
| 14 | Now her mother 's voice called to her , telling her to act like a lady . |
| 15 | The chairman 's homily called to mind the short — but too long — talk he and Marilyn had suffered two days before in the vicar 's study . |
| 16 | Crocker 's cautious approach to the electricity showroom , his quick sidelong glances , called to mind days long gone by when Wexford , then a sixth-form boy , had witnessed this same man as a child of ten , scuttling up to front doors playing ‘ Knocking Down Ginger ’ . |
| 17 | Iain Guest is the reporter in next Sunday 's BBC-1 Everyman programme , Called To Account ( 10.20pm ) , which examines justice in Chile . |
| 18 | Their court appearance brings to 26 the number of men charged by the inquiry team headed by Cambridgeshire deputy Chief Constable John Stevens , who was called to Northern Ireland three months ago to investigate allegations of collusion between security forces and Protestant paramilitaries . |
| 19 | He resumed his studies in 1948 at New College , Oxford , where he took a first class honours degree and was called to the bar a year later . |
| 20 | This form of prayer , then , gathers up all our experiences and takes them to the King of Kings , and we think about them in his presence — all the hurts , all the joys , all that stops us becoming the kind of persons we feel called to be . |
| 21 | There was the man demobbed from his regiment who came to do the garden just as he had before he was called to war . |
| 22 | I was called to the administration block of the hospital and later went to register the death , and to make an appointment with an undertaker — this was for ten o'clock the next morning . |
| 23 | In 1816 Mrs Hawkes , a pious lady who had herself been a convert of Richard Cecil 's , was called to the death-bed of a Mr Vaughan , whose last hours she described in a letter to a friend : |
| 24 | In the synagogue , men can be called to the reading of the Bible , whereas the women can not , and the sexes are separated . |
| 25 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 26 | He managed to dodge the GDR 's National People 's Army ( NVA ) for nine years ( no mean feat ) but now fears that he may yet be called to the colours in the west , as the proposed change in the law merely states that all those who have not yet done their time and who are under the age of 32 will be eligible . |
| 27 | He then felt called to the ministry . |
| 28 | Now , aspiring judges are called to a room at the western end of the Palace of Westminster overlooking the Thames , and , seated on chairs stamped with the gilt portcullis , interviewed about their suitability for the job . |
| 29 | But fire can happen at any moment : the Red Watch was called to the King 's Cross Underground station fire . |
| 30 | BUILDING societies were called to an emergency meeting by the Department of the Environment this week in an attempt to defuse the growing crisis , over contaminated concrete blocks which is threatening to make unmortgageable up to 40 per cent of the housing stock in Cornwall and parts of Devon . |