Example sentences of "called in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come up against sterner stuff , however , and an assistant chief constable was called in to mediate and eventually agreed to send it on after the author urged that the editor of the magazine be allowed to decide ( fieldnotes 1988 ) . |
| 2 | Reinforcements were called in from the Surrey , Kent , and Sussex forces . |
| 3 | During a debate on the dispute at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday , Steve Gazzard , an ambulance worker , said that by allowing arbitration , ministers would then ‘ repay their debt ’ to ambulancemen called in after the bombing during the Tory party conference which was held in the town in 1984 . |
| 4 | David White and Andy Hinchcliffe of Manchester City and Ipswich 's Jason Dozzell have been called in . |
| 5 | The area was sealed off , sniffer dogs were called in to search for more explosives and the bags taken to the Metropolitan Police forensic science laboratory for examination . |
| 6 | Fighting spread from bar to night-club along the narrow cobbled streets of the seedy riverside area as other sailors , including British seamen from the carrier , joined in and police were called in to keep the peace , he added . |
| 7 | Duncan was dug in at the bottom of the orchard and had called in for a chat on his way from Brigade H.Q He was very interested in bagpipe music , having served with the Gordon Highlanders before joining the Commandos . |
| 8 | Eliot was fascinated by the idea which Cornford had put forward ‘ in ‘ The Origin of Attic Comedy ’ , [ that ] this [ medicine-man ] Doctor may be identical with the Doctor who is called in to assist Punch after he has been thrown by his horse' . |
| 9 | In view of the size of the commitment , an outside catering contractor had to be called in to help provide lunch for 1,400 people in a large marquee on the garrison sports ground . |
| 10 | Gallaghers bought the club for £1.25million in 1986 after the receiver had been called in . |
| 11 | Hungarian radio reported that people arriving from Bucharest said the army had been mobilised and that reservists were called in on Tuesday night . |
| 12 | And who could have guessed that , with said gnashers playing him up , he would have to hand over one of his duties — and that a Labour MP would be called in from the subs ' bench . |
| 13 | This was certainly the case when some of Cromwell 's troops , returning from the Battle of Worcester , called in at Wilderhope because they knew that Thomas Smallman , a major in the Royalist army , would still be away . |
| 14 | A master builder from Grantham was called in and created this beautiful and extremely unusual combination of local style and Italian Pallazzo architecture , with its forthright piano nobile and its placement of vases and finials . |
| 15 | The federal army has been called in to act as a buffer in areas of high tension . |
| 16 | A man from Dyno-Rod was called in , to be followed , shortly afterwards , by a couple of detectives from Hornsey police station . |
| 17 | Extra police were called in , and Jane was held responsible for everything . |
| 18 | Rioting became common and the British Army had to be called in to replace the overstretched Royal Ulster Constabulary . |
| 19 | The story of the operation , in all its farcical mystery , was best told by the officers and crew of the CIA proprietary airline called in to help on November 22nd . |
| 20 | North lent a good deal of encouragement to Thomas Dowling , ‘ the priest for the contras ’ , who was called in by Calero to say Mass in the camps in Honduras ; but Dowling found the contras drifting , rather than committed . |
| 21 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | What people remembered was that their ancestors had composed the quarrel : pressures were brought to bear , intermediaries called in , a settlement agreed , compensation paid , women exchanged . |
| 25 | Sometimes the sheriff , that medieval ‘ maid-of-all-work ’ , was called in to restrain the oppressive conduct of the Forest wardens . |
| 26 | ‘ Chris Jefferson from Daventry , he 'd like to see , if Mr Kinnock gets in , some action against Tory tabloid papers ; Mike Humphries , an engineer , called in from Cornwall , says , I do n't know what Labour 's identity is all about — what are they pretending to stand for ? whatever happened to socialism ? |
| 27 | The programmers were called in and told to fiddle with Univac 's brain to make the prediction more realistic . |
| 28 | Still talked about in the glens is Angus MacGillivray , an ancient who was called in to settle a territorial dispute with a neighbour . |
| 29 | The police were called in , the museum 's curator-in-chief , Mme Lydie Huyghe , was sacked and then indicted for ‘ complicity in embezzling public funds ’ . |
| 30 | Under a plan , codenamed Operation Tornado , officers from the neighbouring prisons of Leeds , Full Sutton , Durham and Everthorpe would be called in . |