Example sentences of "[vb past] call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charsky tried to call for help , but his voice was frail ; then , to his amazement , he heard a strong voice from somewhere to his left shout : ‘ We 're on our way down ! |
| 2 | Another rally on Feb. 23 provoked violence against the police as about 10,000 people rallied to call for the return of the Soviet Union as a unified state . |
| 3 | From there the Sejm moved to call for independence , appealing directly to the All-Russian Congress of Soviets . |
| 4 | This is difficult to conceive , and it may be wrong , but some such hypothesis seemed called for to Freud 's mind at the end of his life 's work in psychoanalysis . |
| 5 | Jennifer said nothing , as nothing seemed called for . |
| 6 | He came calling for Europe to work towards economic integration to ensure that the democratic hopes of people in the East did not give way to an opposite undertow of disillusion . |
| 7 | They lobbied councillors to ensure Akers Way would never witness another accident … they achieved many of the safety changes they 'd called for . |
| 8 | Doctors at a Bristol hospital said today , they 'd called for more research following two cases there in which mothers had used water baths in the early stages of labour . |
| 9 | He thought it was Ketura who generally came to call for him before breakfast . |
| 10 | She went on gay-rights marches — although , as far as anyone knew , she was heterosexual — and was wont to punch the air with her fist at moments which seemed to call for affirmation or triumph . |
| 11 | The simplest proposition seemed to call for endless repetitive explanation ; her steaks had become increasingly rare , and , most tiresome of all , whenever they made love , be it after breakfast , lunch or tea , she would leap from the marital bed and turn on the vacuum cleaner , spending the next twenty minutes cleaning an already spotless house . |
| 12 | There were few Marxists in the ILP but it was disproportionately strong in Scotland and came under the domination of the " Clydesider " MPs returned in 1922 , from acutely overcrowded and poor constituencies which seemed to call for extreme social measures . |
| 13 | It was at this time that the Churches at last made common cause and risked calling for Prayer , the acceptance of Gospel values and the application of the Beatitudes to modern life . |
| 14 | A UN resolution followed calling for a plebiscite to decide Kashmir 's future . |
| 15 | Anonymous writers began calling for action . |
| 16 | Spearheaded by the OOA ( Organization for Information about Nuclear Power ) , 800,000 newspapers were distributed and 170,000 petition signatures collected calling for a postponement of the decision . |
| 17 | Largo Caballero , the anarchists ' habitual enemy , now began to call for a ‘ Workers ’ Alliance' embracing the Socialists , the CNT , the small Spanish Communist Party and the rest of the working-class left . |
| 18 | With the publication of the terms of Emancipation inflammatory pamphlets began to call for a mass uprising . |
| 19 | At around the time of the publication of the draft statutes for the proposed European central bank ( November 1990 ) , the Germans started calling for a quick move to a two-speed EMU , with only Germany 's immediate neighbours joining the ecu zone . |
| 20 | They were no more than the truth , but now his mother would ring Victoria and Emma and they would ring him and it would be one question after another until he went completely mad and started calling for humming-bird sandwiches or something . |
| 21 | The District Attorney decided to call for a grand jury inquiry and invited Mitchum and the other defendants to attend . |
| 22 | Services in Derbyshire were so busy that they needed to call for assistance from neighbouring Nottinghamshire . |
| 23 | Since all the parties to this dispute had already agreed to Article 14 of the Montreal Convention , the Security Council had no lawful authority to adopt any resolution that failed to call for the arbitration of this dispute . |
| 24 | Mum and Mary kept calling for this , no that , yes that , to be brought upstairs . |
| 25 | The ‘ Fouchet plan ’ that ensued called for a summit every four months ; for foreign , defence and education ministers to meet regularly ; and for a special secretariat . |
| 26 | No , not precisely I , I was a bit too young then , I , I remember all the songs about her Amy wonderful Amy and all those and oh and when she married Jim I was very much in but I could n't actually say I remembered her crashing at Walsall The erm you could , yeah , when I came home from work one Monday afternoon my nan said this eighty eight had gone over very low , and we , we heard that they 'd dropped this landmine this same aircraft had dropped this landmine that had gone under the gas holder at the gas works , in Road and the , they had some rescue workers from the A R P to get it out they never even bothered calling for the Royal Engineers , but the situation was that landmines used to come down on parachutes , and they used to slide into places which were inaccessible but anyway , they relied on the local Walsall A R P to get them out . |
| 27 | Others , perhaps less charitable , did call for the resignation of the Director of Social Work , Paul Lee , and they believed the Chairman of the Social Work Committee , Councillor Mrs Mairhi Trickett , should also resign . |
| 28 | Although she did call for a fuller apprenticeship for women , Amelia McLean did not argue ( nor did anyone else ) that the Monotype made old-fashioned apprentice ships redundant , and that by a historical reversal of the usual procedure , women compositors in 1910 actually controlled a skilled process while men did not . |
| 29 | Gorbachev did call for ‘ further changes and transformations ’ and for the establishment of a ‘ qualitatively new state of society , in the broadest sense of the word ’ . |
| 30 | He also appeared to call for a referendum on Maastricht — against Government policy . |