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Example sentences of "he [modal v] call " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ E's got a warm 'eart , 'e 'll call the doctor in if 'e thinks yer leg 's broke .
2	The building owner may either employ a builder to carry out the work or opening up and eradication , or he may call in one of the numerous specialist firms to deal with the attack .
3	Eleven by-elections are unlikely in the next few months — but if his majority is whittled down to five or six , he may call another election before too long .
4	Thus in a world of disorder and corruption , it was totally in keeping with God 's nature that he should call out one man , Abraham , and through him his descendants the Jews , to be the channel of grace and revelation to all mankind .
5	She had telephoned at nearly midnight to tell him I was n't very well and he should call before office hours in the morning to cheer me up , but he was n't back .
6	‘ You are Miss Claudia Adams , owner of a dress shop and also a model , ’ he stated , his voice heavy with sarcasm , and Claudia , annoyed that he should call her beautiful showroom a dress shop , did n't bother to tell him she was n't a model .
7	‘ He must call back .
8	He knew he must call her , call her back
9	He 'll call you when he gets in .
10	Do you think he 'll call John ‘ darling ’ ?
11	Do you think he 'll call ? ’
12	‘ Anyway , that boy 's so rich , I do n't think he 'll call in my IOU . ’
13	Normski covered the baize with an enormous Scalextric set , and sometimes he 'll call up friends and they 'll race cars round the track for hours .
14	He 'll call the police . ’
15	‘ He 'll call you Coco , ’ he said .
16	The hospital will give him my car-phone number and he 'll call me as we drive in …
17	No doubt he 'll call you as soon as he hears . ’
18	However please do n't anyone tell Graham Kelly about all this — he 'll probably try and stop us sending messages to list members in Europe , or make an announcement that the authorities are doing all in their power to break up some hooligan ring he 'll call the Sony Hedgehog Club .
19	‘ He said he 'll call , so he 'll call , ’ she insisted .
20	‘ He said he 'll call , so he 'll call , ’ she insisted .
21	He said two , he 'll call for me .
22	Sir : Shabbir Akhtar ( 10 October ) himself makes what he might call a pardonable error in thinking that to liberals — genuine ones , not the compromisers so regretfully limned in John Torode 's article ( 3 October ) - freedom of speech is an absolute value .
23	Now he was so close he though he might call on Gary 's horse before he went home .
24	Charles feared for the unity of his dominions under the threat of Protestantism , and it seemed he might call a national synod in Germany which would not only undermine the authority of the papacy , but in the interests of political unity approve theological positions Rome could never accept .
25	He might call her McAllister , but since she had fled from him she had become Sally-Anne again .
26	He said that he might call on you at some other time . ’
27	, do you think he might call Ba in Barnstaple ?
28	I think he realized that what he might call the party of reason , that 's to say the party of those who do n't see things in terms of ideological shibboleths , but in terms of the long-run interests of humanity , ca n't become a party of action .
29	Whether it was the unsavoury reputation of the government of Lloyd George ; or whether it was the division in the party between the followers of Lloyd George and the followers of Asquith ; or whether it was the aftermath of universal suffrage and the desire of the working man for a party which he could call his own — it now looked certain that the party division of the country would no longer lie between Liberal and Conservative but in a wider gulf between Conservative and Labour , with the Liberal Party on the sideline .
30	I do n't know how David 's Mum got there because he decided not to tell her , even though I said he could call her because it 's not really fair to get married without letting her know . ’