I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a personal call
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Are you sure your boss doesn’t mind your using the telephone for personal calls?
a petition calling for sth/demanding sth
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A petition calling for an inquiry was signed by 15,118 people.
a resolution calling for sth
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We support the EU resolution calling for a ban on the use of these fishing nets.
a social call (= one that does not relate to business )
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Don't misunderstand, this is purely a social call.
a strike call (= when a group asks people to strike )
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The ANC estimated that more than 4,000,000 people heeded its strike call.
a telephone call
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She got a telephone call from Joe last night.
anonymous phone call/letter etc (= one that is often unpleasant or contains threats )
be called/invited for (an) interview
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Applicants who are called for interview may be asked to have a medical exam.
beyond the call of duty (= more than you have to do as part of your job )
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She's a doctor who has gone beyond the call of duty in her care for her patients.
call a doctor (= telephone one, especially to ask them to come to you )
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His mother was very worried and called the doctor.
call a meeting ( also convene a meeting formal ) (= arrange a meeting )
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The board has the power to convene a general meeting if necessary.
call a strike (= tell people to strike )
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The union threatened to call a strike.
call a truce
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They agreed to call a truce .
call a witness (= require a witness to speak in court )
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She was the final witness to be called.
call an ambulance (= phone to ask an ambulance to come )
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Do you think we need to call an ambulance ?
call an election (= arrange for an election to happen )
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The Prime Minister would be unwise to call an election now.
call box
call centre
call for a ban
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French farmers have called for a ban on imports.
call for a halt to sth (= publicly ask for something to stop )
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The government has called for a halt to the violence.
call for sb's resignation (= publicly ask for it )
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After the defeat, there were calls for the coach's resignation.
call for/demand an end to sth (= publicly ask for something to happen or be done )
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The union is calling for an end to discrimination.
call girl
call in/round for a chat
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Are you free later if I call in for a chat?
call letters
call off/abandon a search
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They called off the search when it got dark.
call option
call sb a liar (= say that someone is lying )
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Are you calling my mother a liar?
call sb a taxi (= telephone for a taxi to come for someone else )
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Call me a taxi, would you?
call sb by their first/full etc name (= use that name when you speak to them )
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Everyone called him by his first name.
call sb on the phone
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I called her on the phone and invited her to Las Vegas.
call sb on the telephone
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Her son doesn’t even call her on the telephone.
call sb’s name (= say someone’s name loudly, to get their attention )
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He called Jean’s name, but there was no answer.
call screening
call sign
call the police
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Staff called the police when they noticed a broken window.
call waiting
call/bring/throw sth into question (= make people doubt it )
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He brought into question all the principles on which the Soviet system was based.
called for reinforcements
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The police called for reinforcements .
called for...boycott
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He called for a boycott of the elections.
called time out
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With 15.7 seconds left, Washington State called time out .
called...ceasefire
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They have called a temporary ceasefire in the region.
calling card
call/order (sb) a cab (= telephone for one to come )
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Here's the phone number if you want to call a cab.
call/phone/ring in sick (= phone to say you are not coming in to work because you are ill )
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I could have called in sick, but I knew you needed this report.
call/take the register British English old-fashioned (= say the names of the students in a class, to check who is there )
call/take the roll (= say the list of names to check who is there )
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The teacher called the roll.
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Three senators missed the roll call.
call/throw sth into doubt (= make people unsure about something )
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The accuracy of his account was called into doubt.
clarion call
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This election is a clarion call for our country to face the challenges ahead.
cold call
collect call
conference call
curtain call
demand/call for action (= ask forcefully )
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Voters are demanding tougher action on gun crime.
end/call off a strike (= decide not to continue with it )
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The strike was called off two days later.
fielded...calls
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The press office fielded numerous calls from the media.
first port of call
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My first port of call will be the post office.
got a phone call
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I got a phone call from someone called Mike.
have/get/receive a telephone call
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I had a telephone call from George this morning.
hoax calls (= telephone calls giving false information )
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hoax calls to the police
house call
It was a tough call (= a difficult decision )
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It was a tough call , but we had to cancel the game because of the weather.
last call
local call
make a...phone call
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I need to make a quick phone call .
make...telephone call
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Can I make a quick telephone call ?
obscene phone calls (= calls from an unknown person saying obscene things )
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obscene phone calls
phone call
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I need to make a quick phone call .
phone for/call a taxi (= telephone for a taxi to come )
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Can you phone for a taxi and I'll get our coats.
popularly believed/thought/called etc
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Vitamin C is popularly believed to prevent colds.
port of call
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My first port of call will be the post office.
return sb’s call (= phone someone who phoned you )
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I left a message but he hasn't returned my call.
screen...calls
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You can use an answerphone to screen your phone calls before you answer them.
sth to call your own/which you can call your own (= something that belongs to you )
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She just wanted a place to call her own.
sth to call your own/which you can call your own (= something that belongs to you )
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She just wanted a place to call her own.
takes...calls (= telephone calls )
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Our helpline takes 3.5 million calls a year.
telephone call
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There’s a telephone call for you, Mr Baron.
trunk call
variously described as/known as/called etc sth
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the phenomena variously known as ‘mass culture’, ‘popular culture’, or the ‘public arts’
wake-up call
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The success of extremist groups in the elections should be a wake-up call to all decent citizens.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
for
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A truly socialist legal system and democracy complete with free speech and free media were called for .
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New strategies for regional distribution were called for, and a fresh interest in the regions was shown by Whitehall.
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Before setting it in place, though, an Ultratherm heating mat was called for .
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A considerable injection of resources will be required to provide the managerial and technological expertise called for in the White Paper.
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Problems of enforcement A final note on the enforcement of the duty of care is called for .
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I like Marshalls in the studio if a heavy sound is called for , but I find they vary quite a lot.
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The day dawned misty and drizzly so we went to have a look, confident heroics would not be called for .
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Once dead, treatment obviously is no longer called for .
in
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Each of our shops is staffed by a small friendly team of experts. Call in and meet them.
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Bye was called in to testify once Brett left, and he was asked to produce Yardley the next day.
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On our way back we called in at the field centre, a converted ex-shunter's cabin.
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We finally rescued our wounded, and, with the artillery still pounding, we called in for an air strike.
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Environmental health officers have been called in and are now treating the problem.
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It would also enable all telephone calls in and out of their workplaces to be intercepted.
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Lawyer B wrote to the neighbour, who called in to see him.
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I am an accountant, I have been called in by the bank, and my duty is to the bank.
off
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After passing the information to our shore controls we were told to call off the operation and return to Southampton.
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Only two death row inmates have been put to death since then, and both men chose to call off their appeals.
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The plan was called off at the last moment.
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Once the search team was called off , Aldegonda joined the Benedictine order.
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A car boot sale at Boxted Airfield has also been called off .
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Throughout the property market, deals that had been nearly completed were called off .
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Stopped Thousands of residents were ordered to stay indoors and close all windows before the alert was finally called off .
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Just before midnight they called off the fast and rushed Snyder to a hospital.
sometimes
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This is sometimes called partial indexing.
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The newer ones, such as that one, are sometimes called miniskirt houses.
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Trades his latest software for your latest. Sometimes called a Mail-Trader.
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Piano legs, they are sometimes called .
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This term is sometimes called the external energy.
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Unsupervised Learning Unsupervised learning is sometimes called self-supervised learning.
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This emerging kind of organization within production is sometimes called flexible specialization.
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We must even be judicious when hiking though the outback, where objects sometimes call out for rescue.
upon
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More importantly, the defense finally made a critical play when called upon .
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This court is thus called upon for the first time to give construction to these articles....
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Meanwhile, all available characters have been called upon to repeat bits of exposition over and over.
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The boat seemed to be crying out in pain, like an arthritic suddenly called upon to use weak muscles.
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Fortunately, we are rarely called upon to sacrifice our lives literally.
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I did not feel called upon to answer as the rest did.
■ NOUN
conference
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Garang had called for a constitutional conference , involving all political parties.
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She startled people on arrival in Washington in 1932 by calling a news conference before her husband.
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The National Council of the Guild decided by three votes to two to call a special conference to rescind the affiliation decision.
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They called a news conference at Santa Anita on Thursday to announce that Cigar will be starring in a new series.
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The next step would be to come out in public and call a Press conference .
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The university then called the press conference to announce the news.
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Gen Wiranto called a news conference in Jakarta to say that he would not step down until his position had been clarified.
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We know this because White practically calls a news conference every day to relate those facts.
election
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Delhi resembled an armed camp as the government pulled out all the stops to prevent a rally called to demand early elections .
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Kwasniewski has said he may dissolve parliament to put the issue to rest and call for new elections .
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Pawar called for an election of the parliamentary party leader by secret ballot.
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He would be obliged to call new elections within three months.
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Rather than cut shabby deals, he should call a general election .
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His opponents say his return was a violation of a town code calling for direct election of the mayor.
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The original Bill came under strong attack and fell when John Major called an April election .
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Four years later, he called elections and turned over power to civilian rule.
information
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For more information , call 881-6350.
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For information , call 327-4809 or 884-1220.
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For information , call 447-7217.
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For lodging information , begin by calling the ski resort of your choice.
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For more information , call 623-1000 or 622-5924; or see the City Week listings.
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For more information , call Lori Lantz at 299-3000, ext. 103.
meeting
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He called the meeting to discuss an expedition at silver level.
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Mandy, Mrs Foster has called a staff meeting .
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Already he has called an extraordinary meeting of directors and supporters to discuss his radical new proposals.
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As chairman you are responsible for calling the meeting , holding it together, and devising an effective way of working.
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Hours were spent on phone calls , meetings .
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The result of this was a surprise telephone call from Jenny herself suggesting that we should call a meeting .
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You may even wish the witnesses to be called into the meeting , so that you can question them yourself.
name
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Every few minutes a man came in and called some one's name .
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When a runner from the office called my name , I jumped out of my skin.
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The isolation seemed complete, in the haste he had forgotten his companion and in recompense he called out his name .
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If I call it by this name I will have the whole of a dental audience with me.
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Houston also is responsible for the Kissing Oak being called by that name .
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This will help it to identify with you, and soon instinctively it will come to you when you call its name .
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Where it had lain there was blooming a new and lovely flower, and they called it by his name , Narcissus.
phone
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He then lifted the phone to call Peggy Vanderheld, Hauser's statuesque and hard-bitten personal assistant.
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Meyer did not return phone calls late Tuesday.
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Now pick up your phone , call us, and move on to Stage Two.
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I reached for the phone to call Goldman Sachs, Alex.
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Getting a phone call at the Writers' Club had so confused me that I became half deaf.
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I served on the citizenship working party after receiving a phone call from David Blunkett's office.
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Eid got a phone call with a demand for a correction.
police
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If they call the police that would be different.
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One moment he doubted Teal had called the police , and the next moment he was sure he had.
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Go to a neighbour's house and call the police .
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Stanton later managed to free himself, called police and told them his stolen car was equipped with a tracking device.
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When the lifeboat approached he refused the rescue crew's assistance so helmsman Mike Picknett called the police .
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I would call the police , everyone.
question
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Such a view is called into question by Jacques Lacan's understanding of the subject's relation to the mirror image.
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Yet when he called for questions , there was silence.
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The success of the modernisation drive was called into question as was the security of party leaders who supported the developmentalist line.
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In an age where commercial profit and gain are predominant, the purpose of archaeology is often called into question .
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Every relationship on the show will be called into question .
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Does not this call into question a view of lawyers as controllers of the masses?
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Yet it is this very assumption which these writers call into question .
shot
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Cant about the free market creating opportunities for poor people is meaningless when wealth calls all the shots .
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Traditionally, Tucson Water officials have also been allowed to call the shots .
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But chaps who try chat-up lines of their own get the boot-because she likes to call the shots .
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Strug, the Houstonian with powerful floor and vault routines, may benefit from having Karolyi calling the shots .
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Simple-ad men call the shots and they want gullible audiences.
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Not many years ago, they called all the shots .
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He wanted some greater degree of power for himself, always within a political reality where the malais ultimately called the shots .
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He had been in another program, where he got to call all the shots .
strike
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They now have to ballot their members before being able to call a strike .
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The opposition has called for a citywide strike Monday.
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The five unions who called the indefinite strike said up to 80 percent of postal workers stayed away from work in some areas.
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When we decided we had them pinned down, they called in an air strike .
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They called a protest strike for Aug. 21-23, leaving it to individual parties to decide on a boycott.
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It broke right down in there for a called third strike .
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That is, unless the Postman was called out on urgent strike .
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He opened the sixth inning with a breaking ball for a called strike to Greg Gagne.
telephone
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Maurice has a gadget to record any telephone calls he wants to.
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We make it to a telephone , call Stan, and he comes to fetch us straight-away.
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I've got one or two telephone calls to make.
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Neither Whitacre nor his lawyers returned telephone calls seeking comment on the charges.
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As her fears bordered upon obsession, she began deliberately re-dialling telephone numbers Charles had called .
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But the phone company patched through a line Friday night, and du Pont answered the telephone when authorities called .
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This would enable all telephone calls in and out of their homes to be intercepted.
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Gingrich, who has been making telephone calls to reassure colleagues, will address House Republicans on Monday night.
witness
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Prosecutors called 24 witnesses , all of whom underwent aggressive cross-examination by the defense.
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The judge insisted that a tedious technical trial be run before Mr Schlichtmann could call non-expert witnesses .
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I saw more of human agony and woe than l trust I will ever again be called on to witness .
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I can't call witnesses , I can't produce evidence.
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Frazier was asked to leave the party several times the police were even called according to the witness .
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Let us call in two expert witnesses .
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But the most controversial is expected to be called to the witness stand.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(a case of) the pot calling the kettle black
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It was a bit like the pot calling the kettle black.
aptly named/described/called etc
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In that regard, this disc is aptly named.
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It was aptly named the Plough & Harrow.
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The aptly named Honda Accord has been produced in co-operation with Rover.
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The latter was aptly named, so tart that the first gulp curled your lips back.
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The Manor might be aptly described as a spiritual College.
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The Moonlight Restaurant was aptly named.
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The parish was recently founded and aptly named.
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Then it was being run by the aptly named Thomas Mill.
be at sb's beck and call
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I have never liked to be at anybody's beck and call.
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She was always rushing around at her mother's beck and call.
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I had to be at his beck and call, night and day.
be called to the Bar
be called to the bar
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He also studied law and was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1874.
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He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1856.
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He was called to the bar in 1609.
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He was called to the bar in 1843 and for most of the rest of his life he practised as a conveyancer.
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He was called to the Bar when he left Oxford.
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In 1808 he entered Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar in 1814 though he never practised.
be/get called on the carpet
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Demmons was called on the carpet by the Board of Supervisors to explain his excessive spending.
bring/call sb to account
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The people responsible for the accident must be brought to account .
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But when it was over, Cronin called me to account .
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Inevitably, Whitney and the board called him to account .
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It is a summary remedy which should enable a person in default to be brought swiftly to account .
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Promotion panels, search committees, nominating bodies, nobody calls them to account .
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The debate is intended to bring the Government to account .
bring/call sth to mind
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Each ornament on their Christmas tree brings to mind the friend or relative that gave it.
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Wiesel's speech called to mind the victims of the Holocaust.
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But they were shocked that just over one in ten could bring the day to mind .
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But whose ministry is it to bring things to mind and to convict?
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For some reason, the book brings Don Quixote to mind , charging in from the right.
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I can still bring it to mind , with lines of people coming off the hillsides and on to the road.
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Red and green, of course, bring the holidays to mind .
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Remembering them brought back to mind the Wainfleet item.
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Weiss' comment brings several thoughts to mind , about a subject on which little thinking has been done.
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What brings this all to mind is something that happened recently at the convenience store.
call a halt (to sth)
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Here General McDowell called a halt .
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Objectives of this kind threaten to impoverish the nation and will cause the electorate to call a halt .
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On the Monday before her wedding-day, Diana gave serious consideration to calling a halt to the whole affair.
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Small wonder many women call a halt .
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Surely it is time to call a halt to all vehicles on the pavement.
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The charade at the White House today about calling a halt to politics is transparently hypocritical.
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They ought to see that and just call a halt .
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When she got the blade of the shove between her teeth and began to worry it I called a halt .
call a spade a spade
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Why not call a spade a spade and say that she's incompetent, if that what you're thinking.
call it quits
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After 8 years of marriage, they're calling it quits .
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At midnight the band still showed no sign of calling it quits .
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Fortunately, the timeless musical genius knew when to call it quits , though his stunning creations live on.
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He thought it was time to call it quits .
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In the House, 33 members -- 23 Democrats and 10 Republicans -- are also calling it quits .
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It would be easy to call it quits .
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No one is suggesting that Zajedno is about to call it quits .
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Now you've broken it ... well, let's hope they count Miss Tuckey as a pro and call it quits .
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Spring focus: Albert Belle's chronic hip problem could force him to call it quits .
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Still, Elgaen is not ready to call it quits .
call sb names
call sb's bluff
call/phone sb collect
courtesy visit/call
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To this end an unofficial courtesy visit was arranged and in August 1857 the Imperial couple came to Osborne.
crank call/letter
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Anyone who dares defend this breakthrough speaks in hushed tones, fearing crank calls and canceled grants.
draw/call attention to sth
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Both of these draw attention to the urgent need to provide better opportunities and facilities to encourage walking and cycling.
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Darwin knew these things perfectly well, and drew attention to them.
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Despite many advantages, such a definition fails to draw attention to the unifying characteristics of pragmatic phenomena.
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My hon. Friend rightly draws attention to the benefits of Community co-operation.
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One can merely draw attention to the problem here, for local arrangements were complex and varied.
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Richard Hodges has drawn attention to the beginnings of this process in the post-Roman period with the establishment of emporia.
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The feminine voice at the start of the Shipman's Tale is a conundrum that draws attention to the teller.
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Wearing sunglasses indoors is pretty much guaranteed to draw attention to you.
judgment call
long-distance call
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Illiterates have no hope at all of calculating the expense of local service, let alone long-distance calls.
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Let us handle your long-distance calls, the letter said.
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Starting in late 1984, other elements of long-distance calling will begin to change...
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Taking a long-distance call still causes a certain turbulence here.
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The company said it plans to offer wireless telephone service beginning Thursday, with discounted packages of local and long-distance calling.
outside line/call etc
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A few telephones had direct outside lines when the switchboard closed down at night.
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Caroline Amphlett had left and it was switched through to an outside line.
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Each telephone instrument had its own dial and from it can be dialled other extensions as well as outside calls.
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She concentrated on the outside call.
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There's a private telephone in the compartment in front of you if you need to make any outside calls.
siren voices/song/call
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Daniel Boone heard it: the siren song of the open road, beckoning him to pack up and go.
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Forty Niners president Carmen Policy called the lure of free agency a siren song.
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Mr. Sheerman Is not it time that the Minister ignored some of the siren voices behind her?
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The bottom line is that General Motors heeded the siren song of management Centralism in the mid-sixties.
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Then, unable to resist the telephonic siren song, she picked it up.
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They prepared their siren song for the early-evening crowd.
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This coalition must hold together in the post-war settlement and resist the siren voices calling for a huge re-arming of the region.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Coming, Mom," I called.
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"I'll call your dollar - what have you got?" "Three nines."
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"OK, call it." "Heads."
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"She's a fraud." "I wouldn't call her that."
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A meeting has been called for 3 p.m. Wednesday.
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Already his followers were calling him a saint.
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Can you call Becky before six?
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Didn't you hear me calling you?
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Do you want to be called Miss or Ms.?
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Get out of here or I'll call the police!
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Guidebooks call Chicago "The Windy City".
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His name's actually Robert, but everyone just calls him Bob.
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His secretary started calling around to find out where the commission was meeting.
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I'll call for a taxi now.
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I called round to see if anyone knew where Tom was.
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I called Sue yesterday.
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Mr. Sweeney called while you were out.
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My mother wanted to call me Yuri.
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OK, when I call your name, raise your hand.
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Patty called when you were out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A similar service is offered via e-mail by a company called Mercury Mail.
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People wishing to enroll in the study should request a referral from their doctors or call the nearest participating hospital.
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The back page has a strip called Haggis, which is about a black highland terrier and his adventures.
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The three packages used in this example are called A-CONFORMOLINES, E-VALUES and F-MAP.
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The transition to democracy and market economies will call for much patience and persistence.
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This use is a form of spending; in business it is called depreciation.
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Though Republicans called for the president to fire him, Brown refused to step down.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
anonymous
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And there was also the matter of the anonymous phone call , pointing the finger squarely at Amanda.
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The anonymous call had offered up two names for the Jabelman murder: Iain MacPherson and Tommy somebody.
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How many other officers are under investigation from anonymous calls to the hotlines?
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He was too eager to get back to his roll to ask how Zen had found out about the anonymous phone call .
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The Border Patrol received an anonymous call one night about drug activity in the area.
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What for? the Union said. Anonymous phone call , the company said.
close
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Sydney's closest call operating out of Rendcomb was in a Brisfit shortly after his arrival.
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This was surely a close call !
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You seem fit as a fiddle, Mr Blake. Close call , though.
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Afterward, when he came down for his evening meal, we talked about the close call .
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If you are a Swindon fan, you're bias of course, but it was a close call .
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You can only have so many close calls for your luck to run out.
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But it had been a close call .
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Two days before, there had been a close call .
incoming
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It wasn't permitted to take incoming calls on the pay phone in the hallway of the hotel.
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Just how many incoming calls will be blocked?
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As some one who hates being pestered by incoming calls , I no longer see the point of a cellular phone.
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Three or four staff members handle incoming telephone calls .
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If you leave the fax software running, waiting to answer incoming calls , you can't use the data modem as well.
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She took only incoming calls from Sheila.
local
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It's always a local call to anywhere, at any time.
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The ideal bulletin board is a local call away, with a crowd you like and lots of cool shareware for downloading.
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It is a local rate call from anywhere in the country.
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The changes would have raised basic monthly charges 21 percent and the cost of local calls by an average 19 percent.
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The three-minute cheap rate for local calls is now cheaper in cash terms than it was in 1981.
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For the next year or so, they say, most Texans will still have only one choice for local telephone calls .
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Local calls remain local calls, even if the call crosses area codes.
■ NOUN
conference
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Verio is hosting a conference call on Tuesday, February 1, 2000 at 9: 00 a.m.
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The next afternoon at three, the conference call goes through.
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Participants in the conference call included Gingrich, other Republican leaders, and one of his lawyers, former Rep.
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Kantner and Palmer participated in a media conference call Wednesday and sounded as if they had undergone proper corporate indoctrination.
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Video links were set up in Tucson and Phoenix for family therapy conference calls .
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The conference call has been rearranged for later in the week.
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His plan, he says, is to discuss all this in a conference call with all parties involved.
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A conference call was arranged, and the three founders gathered at the tiny office.
curtain
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The curtain calls went on for days.
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In fact fans rose to their feet for his curtain call .
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There were six curtain calls and Rose Lipman came on stage to be presented with a bouquet.
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Curtain call followed curtain call, to the surprise of some of the dancers.
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That would seem to wrap it up, with nothing left but a final curtain call .
phone
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The immigration officer made a couple of phone calls and I was allowed 24 hours to collect Esmeralda and leave.
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United did not return phone calls asking for comment.
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If you get an obscene or abusive phone call , don't say anything and hang up immediately!
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Raymond goes on taking phone calls , conferring with Larren and Mike and Joe Reilly.
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Apart from your Internet access subscription, you pay only for the local phone call .
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Drinker answered phone calls at all hours from around the world, giving instructions on how to build and operate them.
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As Marguerite left the room for a moment to answer a phone call , Jenna looked up at Alain.
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Never mind all the free phone calls we get to make.
roll
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A roll call of just some of our people who have achieved something special.
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When the alphabetical roll call vote for speaker began, members dutifully voted for Gingrich or Gephardt until Rep.
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Price was reading the roll call .
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Throughout the hourlong roll call , Republicans looked grim.
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Meanwhile, a roll call was being taken.
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A stack of computer printouts is waiting, the road-kill roll call .
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And the long roll call begins.
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He made telephone calls to swing Congressmen right up to the roll call.
strike
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A strike call by the Sacred Union on Feb. 3 was taken up by workers across the country.
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The ejection came after Joyner questioned a strike call .
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Twenty factories obeying Yeltsin's strike call were asked to return to work by Sobchak.
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The strike call , however, was reportedly not widely observed.
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The strike call was endorsed and Local Councils of Action were set up throughout the country, to await events.
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According to local reports an opposition strike call was widely observed on Oct. 26.
telephone
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Your cover will begin as soon as your telephone call or Application is received by Sun Alliance.
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There have been a few telephone calls and some occasional supervision on my part.
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Every time you make a long distance telephone call , your voice is processed through an adaptive filter.
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The paper said Hallier's favourite restaurant and well-known bars from which he made telephone calls were bugged.
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He said the show has generated a number of telephone calls from other parents across the nation similarly accused.
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As soon as he settles into his chair, he returns all telephone calls .
■ VERB
answer
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Employing one or several people to answer calls , so that they are screened for their relevance.
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They answered our call ....
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The police officers, answering a call reporting a man beating a woman, were shot shortly before 10 p. m. Sunday.
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Perhaps she had known it would happen, perhaps he had answered her call for the same reason.
field
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A smartly dressed female presenter has to field calls from a small audience and international callers.
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Many of the new workers are in training and should start fielding calls by late next week, she said.
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So when the station came clean, they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias.
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He fielded the phone calls and promised answers - answers which never came.
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Later, they fielded the phone calls from recruiters, sat for home visits and helped their daughters sort out offers.
get
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This process means, inevitably, that the code will get different calls when running under different operating systems.
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I sometimes get calls still at the office.
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In Jerusalem they get a call from Washington.
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But he never got the call .
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I lounged in the truck and listened to the radio, which could be adjusted so you got police calls .
give
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There would be an advantage in giving an alarm call that is difficult to locate.
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If Andruw gives you any trouble, give me a call .
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If another male is grabbed he will give a release call .
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What a guy, huh? Give us a call if we can assist in any way.
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Still, he would give Carter a call .
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Will you give me a call if you have any ideas?
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But you have to give Gordon Beauchamp a call right away.
make
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When you make your calls , ensure that you speak clearly and precisely.
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You had your own reasons for making the call , and why not make a joke out of it?
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He was arrested within minutes of making the calls .
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He listened, but made the calls himself, quickly, on the pictures, their cropping and placement.
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While Dooley took a bath, the rector made two calls asking for prayer, and gave Miss Sadie an update.
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If just one agent makes such a call there is no problem.
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Deputies said Jackson has made numerous calls to 911 in past years.
pay
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Another out-of-town visitor paid a call last month.
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Users of the new service, called Metal-Web, only pay local telephone call charges.
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Having met his hero one evening at a small gathering, he was invited to pay a call the following week.
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You pay for the calls you answer as well as the ones you place.
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And then one night, one bright and starlit night, a true free dragon came by to pay a call .
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He came down from Massachusetts for a little while and paid a call on Whitman in Brooklyn.
receive
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Some time ago I received a frantic telephone call from Carol, who had undergone successful hypnotic treatment about two years earlier.
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Investigators responded to the two locations after they received calls of suspicious packages in the mail.
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The Northern has received telephone calls and letters from people who have contributed and want to know what is happening.
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They've received hundreds of calls , and now have the names of two men who fit the attacker's description.
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Last year, the city received 914 alarm calls , 703 of which were false, according to city records.
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He received a call on his mobile phone while he was attending an agricultural fair.
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Sheffield received harassing phone calls most of last season.
respond
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The emergency services say it could cut vital minutes from the time it takes to respond to a call .
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Washington area police also responded to dozens of calls for suspicious packages, all of which turned out to be false alarms.
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Even after the Czech coup, however, Congress was not willing to respond wholeheartedly to a call to arms.
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Last year, the Police Department spent about 70 man-hours responding to alarm calls .
return
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Motorola did not return calls by press time.
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Executives at Dignity Partners yesterday have not returned telephone calls since issuing the unexpected announcement on Tuesday.
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The Democratic Party machine did not return his calls , the media ignored him, but he kept driving.
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United did not return phone calls asking for comment.
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Because of their workload, they may not be immediately available but they all have telephone answering machines and will return all calls .
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His lawyer did not return a call requesting a comment.
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Shapiro did not return telephone calls seeking comment last week.
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Resort Properties officials did not return phone calls .
wait
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Now he too was waiting for a phone call , promised for the afternoon.
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Women spend more time waiting to get telephone calls and wondering if there will be another date.
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If you leave the fax software running, waiting to answer incoming calls , you can't use the data modem as well.
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They were waiting for my call .
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A team of officers will also be waiting for calls at the Durham Police headquarters.
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Each night as I wait for his call I feel my strength on trial; what will become of my hard-won solitude?
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Especially now, waiting for the call into their presence.
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For the time being she was excused from her prop-room duties and she needn't wait for the curtain call .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
answer the phone/a call/the door
aptly named/described/called etc
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In that regard, this disc is aptly named.
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It was aptly named the Plough & Harrow.
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The aptly named Honda Accord has been produced in co-operation with Rover.
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The latter was aptly named, so tart that the first gulp curled your lips back.
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The Manor might be aptly described as a spiritual College.
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The Moonlight Restaurant was aptly named.
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The parish was recently founded and aptly named.
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Then it was being run by the aptly named Thomas Mill.
be at sb's beck and call
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I have never liked to be at anybody's beck and call.
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She was always rushing around at her mother's beck and call.
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I had to be at his beck and call, night and day.
bring/call sth to mind
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Each ornament on their Christmas tree brings to mind the friend or relative that gave it.
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Wiesel's speech called to mind the victims of the Holocaust.
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But they were shocked that just over one in ten could bring the day to mind .
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But whose ministry is it to bring things to mind and to convict?
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For some reason, the book brings Don Quixote to mind , charging in from the right.
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I can still bring it to mind , with lines of people coming off the hillsides and on to the road.
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Red and green, of course, bring the holidays to mind .
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Remembering them brought back to mind the Wainfleet item.
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Weiss' comment brings several thoughts to mind , about a subject on which little thinking has been done.
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What brings this all to mind is something that happened recently at the convenience store.
call it quits
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After 8 years of marriage, they're calling it quits .
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At midnight the band still showed no sign of calling it quits .
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Fortunately, the timeless musical genius knew when to call it quits , though his stunning creations live on.
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He thought it was time to call it quits .
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In the House, 33 members -- 23 Democrats and 10 Republicans -- are also calling it quits .
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It would be easy to call it quits .
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No one is suggesting that Zajedno is about to call it quits .
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Now you've broken it ... well, let's hope they count Miss Tuckey as a pro and call it quits .
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Spring focus: Albert Belle's chronic hip problem could force him to call it quits .
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Still, Elgaen is not ready to call it quits .
call sb's bluff
call/phone sb collect
courtesy visit/call
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To this end an unofficial courtesy visit was arranged and in August 1857 the Imperial couple came to Osborne.
crank call/letter
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Anyone who dares defend this breakthrough speaks in hushed tones, fearing crank calls and canceled grants.
draw/call attention to sth
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Both of these draw attention to the urgent need to provide better opportunities and facilities to encourage walking and cycling.
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Darwin knew these things perfectly well, and drew attention to them.
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Despite many advantages, such a definition fails to draw attention to the unifying characteristics of pragmatic phenomena.
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My hon. Friend rightly draws attention to the benefits of Community co-operation.
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One can merely draw attention to the problem here, for local arrangements were complex and varied.
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Richard Hodges has drawn attention to the beginnings of this process in the post-Roman period with the establishment of emporia.
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The feminine voice at the start of the Shipman's Tale is a conundrum that draws attention to the teller.
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Wearing sunglasses indoors is pretty much guaranteed to draw attention to you.
give sb a call/buzz
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Compaq is pretty wonderful about fixing such stuff under warranty, so give them a call.
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If Andruw gives you any trouble, give me a call.
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If you'd like to meet up for a drink or something, do give me a call on the above number.
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It's obvious: unless work gives us a buzz, we won't give our best.
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So why not give us a call!
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Still, he would give Carter a call.
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Will you give me a call if you have any ideas?
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You and a friend can give each other a call.
he who pays the piper calls the tune
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Her benefits were therefore not so much economic as political: he who pays the piper calls the tune.
judgment call
long-distance call
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Illiterates have no hope at all of calculating the expense of local service, let alone long-distance calls.
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Let us handle your long-distance calls, the letter said.
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Starting in late 1984, other elements of long-distance calling will begin to change...
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Taking a long-distance call still causes a certain turbulence here.
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The company said it plans to offer wireless telephone service beginning Thursday, with discounted packages of local and long-distance calling.
outside line/call etc
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A few telephones had direct outside lines when the switchboard closed down at night.
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Caroline Amphlett had left and it was switched through to an outside line.
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Each telephone instrument had its own dial and from it can be dialled other extensions as well as outside calls.
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She concentrated on the outside call.
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There's a private telephone in the compartment in front of you if you need to make any outside calls.
pay (sb) a call/visit
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Another out-of-town visitor paid a call last month.
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Having met his hero one evening at a small gathering, he was invited to pay a call the following week.
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I was more than once surprised to see men going into those rooms, paying visits to the legless men.
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Latimer is living apart from people, divorced even from religious faith by his visions, when Charles Meunier pays a visit.
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No, Robert insisted, he could not, would not, pay a visit to such distant parts.
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The Marshal decided it was time to pay a visit to Headquarters.
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Then one day, just for old times' sake, I paid a visit to Winston Street.
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They were scheduled to pay a visit to another model resettlement village that morning - their last official tour.
siren voices/song/call
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Daniel Boone heard it: the siren song of the open road, beckoning him to pack up and go.
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Forty Niners president Carmen Policy called the lure of free agency a siren song.
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Mr. Sheerman Is not it time that the Minister ignored some of the siren voices behind her?
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The bottom line is that General Motors heeded the siren song of management Centralism in the mid-sixties.
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Then, unable to resist the telephonic siren song, she picked it up.
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They prepared their siren song for the early-evening crowd.
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This coalition must hold together in the post-war settlement and resist the siren voices calling for a huge re-arming of the region.
trace a call
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a call for help
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Ambulances try to arrive within eight minutes of an emergency call .
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Have there been many calls?
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This is the last call for flight 372 to Atlanta.
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When you play at your opponent's court, the calls tend to go against you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a result, there are fewer circuits open for regular voice calls.
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He remained calm, made a call and forked out $ 700 of his own money for a plane ticket.
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Investigators responded to the two locations after they received calls of suspicious packages in the mail.
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Phone call from Education Office, re. dinner money summary sheets.
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Taking a long-distance call still causes a certain turbulence here.
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This is an unobtrusive way of keeping expensive unofficial calls to the minimum.
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Weiss has failed to return calls seeking comment.