Example sentences of "calls to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another of her interminable , secretive and expensive telephone calls to one of her old nursing friends , he thought , and , duly satisfied , made no further attempt . |
| 2 | ‘ Luk at the belly on that , ’ she calls to one portly gentleman , ‘ They say he has a waterbed . |
| 3 | Later in the 1980s , Mercury may also lease transmitters on a European satellite to carry telephone calls to other parts of the continent . |
| 4 | A few telephone calls to other units showed that our hospital was not an exception . |
| 5 | Some successful initiatives have happened — for example , Guy 's Hospital has employed a nurse practitioner at night to supervise giving intravenous drugs and filter calls to junior staff . |
| 6 | JOHN OLVER , captain of Courage league leaders Northampton , will be making a few telephone calls to former Harlequin colleagues in the next couple of days . |
| 7 | My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success . |
| 8 | My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success . |
| 9 | In Act I Scene V she calls to evil spirits , showing that she realises human feelings must be obliterated in the fight for power . |
| 10 | Your readers may not be aware of it , but although BT state ‘ … calls to these services are charged at the premium rate of 36p per minute cheap rate and 48p per minute at other times ’ , it actually costs twice that amount when you dial from a payphone ! |
| 11 | From my experience , a large proportion of ( necessary ) calls to these services tend to be made from payphones in remote locations , often involving a considerable detour from one 's route . |
| 12 | Good examples are crimes of sex abuse against children , and calls to natural deaths and suicides . |
| 13 | ‘ So you 're the one who 's been making nuisance calls to Brown Owl ’ |