Example sentences of "were called [adv] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Two weeks later the same students were called together and reminded of the questions they had been unable to answer .
2 The December demonstrations were called off and order on the campuses was restored , but the underlying issues and grievances remained .
3 Over the weekend all attempts to salvage the Danish cargo vessel were called off and the ship was declared a total loss .
4 The programmers were called in and told to fiddle with Univac 's brain to make the prediction more realistic .
5 Within two years the liquidators were called in and the company was wound up in 1987 .
6 The police were called in and no further trains were dispatched that day .
7 However we were called in and were able to advise that the building could be saved .
8 Personnel from the Oil Spill Service Centre at Northam were called in and laid the terminal 's boom across the mouth of the river Hamble , sealing off the river and its four marinas from the threat of pollution .
9 When he died in June from cancer , investigators from Liquidators Cork Gulley were called in and soon smelt a rat .
10 A mobile coastguard and the Cullercoats inshore lifeboat were called out but it was found the flare had been fired from the shore before youths were seen fleeing .
11 Troops were called out and the Riot Act was proclaimed in Worthing in 1884 .
12 Eventually the police were called back but they found nothing .
13 In the 1970s such individuals were called educationally and emotionally deprived or culturally disadvantaged , and a whole quasi-medical terminology of concern and cure became part of the intervention procedure of community workers , social workers and educationalists .
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