Example sentences of "calling [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erika — ’ calling through the plastic ivy . |
| 2 | He tried to help matters by calling through his cardboard megaphone for — ‘ the best of order there for the speaker ’ . |
| 3 | Amid the clatter of cutlery and crockery , my contact revealed how Diana had seriously considered calling off the wedding two days before she walked down the aisle at St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 4 | He had never wanted her to be given in marriage to Dom João , and had seen that gentleman 's non-arrival as a good way of calling off the match should Sara wish it . |
| 5 | Pascoe had sat in silence as his superior swiftly and efficiently did his part in calling off the search for Mickey Annan . |
| 6 | Bush 's statement calling off dialogue |
| 7 | On the night of May 29 the consultative council of the FIS had issued a communiqué calling off the strike and obliquely denouncing the principal strike leader , FIS president Abassi Madani . |
| 8 | Whatever was supposed to be wrong had never hindered Rosenthal 's career , and it seemed the real reason for Udinese 's calling off the transfer — they signed Argentinian striker Abel Balbo instead — was the level of anti-semitism in the town . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm calling about your work on self-defence for women , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're calling about the cocaine shipment , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Or he could even be faced with the prospect of calling about individual applications or even heaven forbid , the structure plan itself . |
| 12 | Hallo sir , you 're calling about your daughter , Jennifer , erm I 'm sorry , I do n't really have any more information to add to what we told you on the twentieth . |
| 13 | He was accused of calling for the violent overthrow of the monarchy . |
| 14 | Hamadi Jebali : a 51-year-old newspaper editor from Sousse , he was sentenced by the military court in Tunis on 31 January 1991 to one year 's imprisonment for publishing an article calling for the abolition of military courts . |
| 15 | Orlando Azcué was one of 12 political prisoners in Combinado del Este Prison in Havana who signed a letter dated 1 January 1991 , calling for peaceful political change and respect for human rights , that was smuggled out of the prison . |
| 16 | The Duke did his stately bow at that and then Donald was calling for another song . |
| 17 | The industrial labour dispute of early summer 1989 had virtually the whole public ridiculing BR 's labour relations and calling for a change of style . |
| 18 | A dryness calling for death ; … |
| 19 | On the international front Bill Widdis , director of systems development at the stock exchange , is wary of arguments calling for full transnational integration of share clearing systems . |
| 20 | Much as many Ethiopians fear and loathe the government , they are calling for more political and economic freedom , and would not feel liberated by the TPLF . |
| 21 | There will be two alternative clauses - one calling for a ban on research and one for research to be allowed up to 14 days . |
| 22 | The executive is recommending rejection of a motion calling for unilateral disarmament . |
| 23 | A hardline motion calling for black sections is almost certain to be thrown out on Friday and the party could be left without a policy as support for a proposition calling for societies with exclusively black members is also in doubt . |
| 24 | A hardline motion calling for black sections is almost certain to be thrown out on Friday and the party could be left without a policy as support for a proposition calling for societies with exclusively black members is also in doubt . |
| 25 | A student petition calling for the Chinese government to negotiate with student leaders attracted 80,000 signatures and was presented to Xinhua after another rally on 17 May . |
| 26 | But Mr Kinnock 's delight with the defence statement victory was marred by the successful left-wing rearguard action , calling for a cut in defence spending , ‘ initially to equal the average level of other West European countries ’ . |
| 27 | At the same time , there are reports that workers ' militias had been used to cordon off streets during the demonstration in Leipzig on Monday night when some 10,000 people marched through the streets chanting ‘ Gorby , Gorby ’ and calling for the legalisation of the opposition group New Forum . |
| 28 | JERUSALEM — The Unified Leadership of the Uprising , in a sudden hardening of the 21-month-old intifada , distributed a leaflet calling for general strikes in the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip on five days during the next week , beginning on Thursday . |
| 29 | Like Terry Venables calling for a pre-match arsenic , the old trouper knows that the best way to disarm your critics is to make ‘ em laugh , but the joke has been wearing a bit thin , and it was with some relief that he swopped his sheepish smile for a satisfied one . |
| 30 | At least by implication he is calling for a social market economy . |