Example sentences of "[subord] he [be] called " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffin ran into problems quite early , against MCC in fact , at Lord 's , where he was called three times fro throwing and once , simultaneously , for dragging . |
| 2 | They said that if the expert departed from his instructions in a material respect , eg where he was called on to value shares in a company and he valued the wrong number of shares or shares in the wrong company , that would be sufficient . |
| 3 | George Bush makes a campaign television commercial about crime , but it features a black criminal , so he is called racist . |
| 4 | Zimmerman was ambassador to Yugoslavia for three years until he was called home in May . |
| 5 | ‘ Until he was called to set a bone in the back of the Queen of Denmark , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Foreign Office worthies look forward to a parallel rise through the ranks of the Order of St Michael and St George , from CMG ( Call Me God ) , to KCMG ( Kindly Call Me God ) to GCMG ( God Calls Me God ) , on the theory that gullible foreigners will be more impressed by the ambassador of a second-division power if he 's called Sir Cuthbert Smith instead of plain Mr Smith . |
| 7 | He did not expect that he would have to go to war over the Holy Places , but if he was called upon to do so , he thought that he could produce the men , guns and money he would need for victory . |
| 8 | He cant be that bad cos he was called up for England last season if Im correct ? |
| 9 | You could tell he was a maverick because he 's called Gavin , is articulate and wears black T-shirts for work . |
| 10 | You could tell he was a maverick because he 's called Gavin , is articulate and wears black T-shirts for work . |
| 11 | You could tell he was a maverick because he 's called Gavin , is articulate and wears black T-shirts for work . |
| 12 | They were in awe of him because you would never have guessed from meeting him how immensely wealthy he was , and because you would never have guessed from knowing how immensely wealthy he was how immensely clever he was as well , and because he was called Freddie when his initials were A. P. J. You 'd catch a glimpse of this tall , stooped figure crossing Trinity Great Court , with one shoulder held slightly higher than the other , and you 'd know you were watching one of the world 's great fortunes walking about , plus , on the same two lanky legs , behind the same untidily dangling forelock , one of the world 's great instruments of serious scholarship . |
| 13 | ‘ Is it because he was called Ángel de Muerte ? ’ |
| 14 | Sweetheart nor Buddie had spoken to him since he was called down from his room almost an hour ago . |
| 15 | The tenant may well benefit from this arrangement since he will have in his hands a lump sum before he is called upon to make any payment to his own landlord . |
| 16 | There was the man demobbed from his regiment who came to do the garden just as he had before he was called to war . |
| 17 | I knew I 'd had a letter from him then , because it was the last time we were apart before he was called up . ’ |
| 18 | But when he is called to perform later on that night he curls up in a limp ball and refuses to move . |
| 19 | What is more , they have caught the Labour party without a spokesman able to put its objections clearly when he is called upon to address them . |
| 20 | Holmes will not come back when he is called ( he does n't even turn round when you shout ) and he can not be allowed of the lead . |
| 21 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When he was called up , the children moved to Hemel Hempstead . |
| 24 | He was just beginning to worry about his fuel situation when he was called into the searchlight area , only to be fired on by A.A. He advised Control that he was coming in to land and requested that the flare path be lit , but was advised that there was still an alert in force and therefore no flare path could be employed . |
| 25 | Mr Payne , 48 , a Mid Glamorgan paramedic , made the grim discovery when he was called to a two-car smash at Deri , near Bargoed . |
| 26 | He had appeared in only five stage plays as a professional adult when he was called to Stratford-upon-Avon to play a full season of major Shakespearian roles . |
| 27 | Anderson , the Clerk to the meeting , who was strongly attached to Sir John Anstruther , when he was called upon to attach the seal to the commission returning Alexander ‘ pretended that it had been abstracted from him ’ . |
| 28 | MIDFIELDER Jamie Redknapp today received some compensation for Liverpool 's early exit from Europe when he was called up for England 's Under-21 international against Turkey at Brisbane Road on November 17 . |
| 29 | An act of love occurs , for which the john , or the trick as he 's called , for some reason , will be swiftly remunerated . |
| 30 | Bishop of Gibraltar , or rather Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe as he 's called nowadays , ’ supplied the Archdeacon . |