Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've just called for her money . |
| 2 | Significantly , however , the PAC , which had consistently called for the immediate transfer of power from the white minority , agreed to negotiations with the de Klerk regime . |
| 3 | This seems to be the view of Lord Donaldson , that truly sagacious Master of the Rolls , who has just called for a new corps of paralegal ‘ civil justices ’ to get people like me off the hook . |
| 4 | Dr Neil , who had just called for the bill , pulled out his watch , and said cheerfully , ‘ Oh , we have already missed it , McAllister . |
| 5 | Employers , however , have welcomed the 1.5% pay curb , which they have long called for . |
| 6 | He has also called for an election to a constituent assembly to be held within two months , to restore ‘ institutional democracy … as soon as possible . ’ |
| 7 | It has also called for stricter international standards to be introduced on maritime safety . |
| 8 | Chattopadhyay had served as a Minister under Indira Gandhi in the 1970s ; following the November 1989 Lok Sabha elections he had unsuccessfully called for the resignation of Rajiv Gandhi as Congress ( I ) leader and had eventually resigned from the party . |
| 9 | He had constantly called for reductions in the burdens of taxation on both corporations and individuals and regularly denounced the federal government for being too big , too meddlesome and too wasteful of the taxpayers ' money . |
| 10 | There were plenty of examples of schemes and estates in the area ‘ put into place by caring councils ’ , he said also calling for the freeing of sale money . |
| 11 | On the contrary , all kinds of groups and associations representing ideas of this kind had come into existence in the USSR : some of them had openly called for ‘ power-sharing ’ on the basis of a ‘ parliamentary regime ’ , for ‘ free trade unions ’ , ‘ autonomous publishing houses ’ and so forth . |